Rescuing Rusty

Life has been crazy lately. The weathers been warm, cattle have needed worked, children have been sick, other than with Tanna last weekend, I haven’t had time for extensive lessons.…

As we were attempting a riding lesson on Coyote, Princess Onna and Rusty decided it was time to play.

We went for a walk today. It had been a while since the last one. I had backed up a step and worked on other things in the round pen…

All the time I feel like we are making great progress. He saddles, bridles, lifts his feet, gives to pressure, rein and hand, doesn’t spook much. As we drive past…

Yeah, no pictures though. Funny thing about the actual training part, there’s no time for picture taking. Plenty of time during the waiting patiently parts and the messing around parts…

No different. Just tossed the saddle up there and he turned around and sniffed it. I left him to hang out for a few minutes with the saddle on and…

The neighbor girl, Tanna, came over to play again. The last time I worked Rusty I worked on asking him to step over to the fence. It is the single…

A neighbor and friend of mine came over the other day to see Rusty. I’ve been playing with him in the round pen and put her in to work him…

I didn’t think I had said anything bad about our boy last time, but apparently I was harsher than I meant to be. We are continuing to take our walks…

NOT. Not only was it not a park, it was our driveway, it was not easy. I caught him in the pen and went through our usual routine, pick up…