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my life with horses
9:57 PM, Teachings at Twilight
Thursday, July 24, 2008


I got home from work at eight and went out to see my darling.
We haven't had a Liberty session in quite a while so I decided that it was time to play!
When I greeted her, she came up to me " Do you have food?" Nudged and shoved me around and then when she found nothing, stalked off.
How dominant can she be?!
And then the games began. I trotted off into her pasture with huge presence and super high energy. She was right on my heels from the first step. Here is a short list of things we accomplished in our hour and a half in the twilight.



  • We began with our little knock-over-the-cone game. Every time I set it up and trotted off, she'd knock it over, roll it around and then come to me to collect her cookie.

  • Then I asked her to bend her head around to her stomach ( think girth line) on both sides.

  • Then she had to move her HQ away from me in a very quick circle while keeping her FQ relatively still. ( both directions) with only my schwiegermutter look and snapping my fingers to guide her. :) She is amazing at this task.

  • We then brought out my hula hoop and played loads of approach and retreat before laying it down and at the end of the session, I could get her to place all four feet in the hula hoop and then back out of it and then come back in without touching her.

  • Then! I ran around with her, we chased each other a little and then went back to the cone and worked on our yo yo at Liberty. We seem to have pretty good draw! Not too shabby.

  • After running around some more, I brought out my Tiger and my Ladybug chased her very first Tiger.

She picked it up very quickly after she got over her RB Introversion and knew that she had to figure it out. She came out of it and yawned a lot, blinking and then she got to it.

Chase the Tiger went a little something like this..

- Mommy whips out the Tiger-

- Lady : -Sniff, snort, sniffsniffsniff cautious nudge.- "What in good heavens is tha--"..-


-Mommy stuffs a cookie into Lady's mouth.-


-Lady: .... O.O; "WHAT?!"-


This repeated about five times and then she realized what she was getting cookies for and that was THAT!

At the end of the session she was standing in a hoola hoop and eating the tiger.

She'd grab it by the stick and shake the bag. I was so shocked and I am so proud!

Now I really need some sleep. Lol! I am pooped and I have to work tomorrow as well.

See ya later!

Naturally,


Katie Hufton