finally got molly to lunge right rein.. took some doing. she argued and argued and argued and i tried various tactics - tried the getting her to listen to me by poking her in the chest and telling her to go back, don't think she'd been asked that before so will have to go to that one another way! tried putting the lunge line over and then going behind her, tried all sorts ofthings ... eventually it was as if she just caved in and said go on then. she started off at a dreadful rush in canter, then to a hurried trot, but kept it going without trying to turn in again as she often does and was giving signs of what would have been join up had she been loose schooled.
so overall i was pleased with that.
i wasn't so pleased with the shenanigans prior, couldn't get girth done up on the lunging roller as she woulnd' t stand still for it. but i conlcuded that that wasn't goint to let her off, hence the lunging
don't know if there's something with her back again.
i finally got an email from the bowen person last week - 2 months later, she said her internet had been down, or her email at least ... i replied saying essentially better late than never and what's her diary like ... no response ...
Keeping My Fingers Crossed
8 years ago
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Mixed success is better than no success at all. Sounds as if you might have made a breakthrough with the lunging, though.
Now if the silly girl can just behave for all the rest of the work prior to and after.
I had to laugh about your comment in the prior post about getting the cats to wipe their feet. Why is it that when they jump on the car they always have muddy paws. I get little cat tracks all up and done the hood, roof and windshield. Looks like a very strange paint job.
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