Rescuing Rusty

Meh. Seems like the best way to describe it. He wasn’t bad but he wasn’t good. It’s the forward momentum thing still. He just doesn’t want to. If I had…

And first ride off a leash, first ride with another horse. He rocked it. Still trouble with forward momentum. He was great following Coyote as long as Tanna kept a…

Went out today just to say hi and work on a couple simple things Rusty has down already. A just for fun lesson between rides. The flies were awful. They…

Not that I plan to stop at three or anything but it was my goal. I had a trainer tell me one time that if you are training a horse…

When you’re on a roll it’s best to keep going. Things fell into place perfectly for once. The youngest child sleeping, the oldest off playing with the cousins and my…

And he was great. Tanna was great, Everything went great. The wind was howling and the temp had gone from very comfortable all morning to nearly one hundred. It is…

I sure hope so. Tanna has come out a couple of times this week and ridden and helped me work Rusty. Yesterday was a bit of a rushed lesson for…

Took Rusty for his first walk behind the fourwheeler yesterday. My old boy Coyote thinks he is a fourwheeler and will get upset about his “herd” leaving if they take…

I keep saying what fun it’s going to be someday to teach Rusty to work cattle for real. Then I thought why wait for someday. Why not teach him to…

It’s hot out. Not to whine or anything. But I did it, I got out and worked him. We did some easy ground work and he was sweating. I was…