Post by minimin on Jan 19, 2012 17:47:57 GMT 1
over the last month or so my pony (3 1/2 yrs) has been asserting himself more and more with me, resulting in me ending up with my foot in cast after he trod on my foot and loosing my confidence to be able to handle him safely 
while in cast i cought Kelly's books Perfect manners and perfect confidence - best thing i ever did
anyway - today was the first time i had got my boy out of his field since having my foot out of cast. I was doing the foundation exercises from the perfect manners book with him when 2 apache helicopters came into sight flying striaght towards us very low. All the horses in the surrounding fields started galloping around etc. My initial reaction was 'oh my god this is going to be a disaster', but then i remembered what i had read in Kelly's books. I concerntrated on my breathing, stayed calm, and reassured him to stand still (i had unclipped his lead rein as didn't want to be dragged off if he bolted). I calmly and soothingly told him he was a good boy for standing still and stoked his neck.
I could see his heart rate had gone up, and he had his head held high, looking from the helicopters to the other horses all galloping around, but he kept one ear locked on me. They passed straight over us, and he stood really well throughout.
I am sure this is because I didn't let myself panic, and managed to keep my adrenaline down, and voice calm - all thanks to what I had read in Kelly's books.
We still have a long way to go before I am confident that he wont stand on me again and I can trust him to respect my space, but I am sure once we practice the perfect manners excerises we will be much better.
while in cast i cought Kelly's books Perfect manners and perfect confidence - best thing i ever did
anyway - today was the first time i had got my boy out of his field since having my foot out of cast. I was doing the foundation exercises from the perfect manners book with him when 2 apache helicopters came into sight flying striaght towards us very low. All the horses in the surrounding fields started galloping around etc. My initial reaction was 'oh my god this is going to be a disaster', but then i remembered what i had read in Kelly's books. I concerntrated on my breathing, stayed calm, and reassured him to stand still (i had unclipped his lead rein as didn't want to be dragged off if he bolted). I calmly and soothingly told him he was a good boy for standing still and stoked his neck.
I could see his heart rate had gone up, and he had his head held high, looking from the helicopters to the other horses all galloping around, but he kept one ear locked on me. They passed straight over us, and he stood really well throughout.
I am sure this is because I didn't let myself panic, and managed to keep my adrenaline down, and voice calm - all thanks to what I had read in Kelly's books.
We still have a long way to go before I am confident that he wont stand on me again and I can trust him to respect my space, but I am sure once we practice the perfect manners excerises we will be much better.
