May 20- May 27

It's been a while since i have written! A lot has happened in a week! I mainly work with Dreamer now, so what i have worked with her is: we can do circle game, one foot on the pedestal, she plays with the tarp, she jumps over the barrels and i can pick both of her front feet up! When i work with Dante i usually work on having him stay out of my personnel space and we can sorta do circle game, but he is still kinda confused on what to do! (: I have learned a lot doing this so far and I'm sure i will learn a lot more.

Saturday

Today we just pretty much reviewed everything we did yesterday. The new thing we did today was we got them used to spray bottles. Soon we will be able to use fly spray on the yearlings! They did very well with the spray bottles!!!!

Friday

On Friday we went up to the big arena and that was an adventure for us! Dreamer is very curious, she likes to check things out. Once we were in the big arena she was unconfident and wanted to be with Dante. We worked on yielding the hind quarters, moving the front end, porcupine game, and circling game. All of the games went pretty well. We had a little trouble with circle game, she would send but she didn't connect to keep moving forward, so we taught that in two different stages. After our lesson we another adventure to the water trough. She was very nervous when we were walking into the feed pen, but after she was in there for a little while she wasn't as nervous. She didn't drink out of the trough but she did touch it. Friday was a very successful day!!

Day 6 training

Today I worked on- moving the front end, moving the hind end, we played lots of friendly game today, and I groomed both of the horses. With Dante he got more confident with me being closer to his hind end, and Dreamer got more confident with me rubbing her legs. They are both very smart when they figure out what you are asking them.

             Me and Dante

1st Contact Dreamer

This is Saturday afternoon May 12th when my mom started working with Dreamer!

1st Contact with Dante

We got back from Mississippi on Friday night May 11th and put the horse up for the night. This is Saturday morning the 12th. I was up first!

Going to Pick up the Mustangs

Well we left on Thursday May 10th, to go and pick up our Mustangs. Me, Nikki, Allie and parents drove to Mississippi and stayed overnight Thursday in Jackson. Then we picked up the horses Friday morning to take them home. Boy did they look a mess in the mud!

Here we are at the BLM site in Mississippi. 120 days till Showtime!