Texas Here We Come!

I am so excited to have Cut Across home. He is more beautiful that I thought. His picture did not do him justice. I am so ready to get in the pen and put my arms around him and just start loving the crap out of him. Oh wait……He is wild. Haha. That’s just one minor detail in the bigger picture.  

I have spent a few days getting to know him. He seems to be a react first and think later type of guy, which tells me that he is a little more on the extroverted side.  He is not over the top reactive, but he is definitely reactive. After spending a few more hours with him I have determined he is left brained. Now anyone who is familiar with the Parelli Horsenality chart would have just learned a lot about my horse by the little bit of information I have given. I have a left brain extrovert.

This is my first experience with this type of “horsenality”. I have a few left brain introverts and a right brain extrovert, I know opposite ends of the spectrum. So I am learning a few things about him. There is NO way I will be able to bribe him to like me. He is not food motivated and he is not curious enough to even consider smelling me when I am sitting on the ground in his pen. I needed to do something to make myself more interesting, I finally had to make him interested in me.

On Day two, May 15^th, I spent an hour chasing him around the round pen. Every time he would take his eyes off me I would be crazy and jump around. The minute he would look at me I would get quiet and just stand there and let him think about it. It seemed to be the right answer. He was looking at me, he was totally engaged. Even when I would get out of the pen to let him rest he wouldn’t take his eyes off me. When he was finally making an effort to take steps toward me I was done for the day.

Day three was AMAZING! He started of not being interested, after I reminded him that I was interesting we were back in business. I worked for about half an hour and he took a step towards me and SNIFFED me. I was on cloud nine. We were rocking and rolling!! Texas here we come!!

I am so excited to be on this journey with my little appy. I know it’s going to be a LONG journey, but worth it.

Beth