Volume 8 , Issue 43

Attitude Is Everything & So Is Patience

One morning during this week, NW Okie was awaken and dragged out of bed by us pugsters for our morning feeding and outing.

NW Okie arose from under the warm covers reluctantly, dressing warmly -- fed us pugs and preceded outside to feed the horses. Only to notice that two horses were waiting nearby for their morning feeding. After looking towards the North, across the fence, NW Okie spotted the third horse, Maggie (a yearling), had crawled through the fence and was on the outside side of the pasture.

The little dunn colored, yearling mare had found a place in the fence to stick her head under the top fencing and managed to venture to the other side of the fence to thicker, semi-green grass. It seems that Maggie was waiting for NW Okie to help her to get back to the other side with the other two horses were waiting to be feed.

With a bucket of feed, NW Okie proceeded to patiently encourage this wayward yearling to step back through the fence.

Finally, after waiting patiently for 15 minutes, Maggie stretched, lifted her front knee forward over the lowered fence -- straddling it for a few seconds before moving her hind quarters through to the other side to eat her bucket of oats/alfalfa/barley.

Yep! Attitude & Patience is everything in gaining the trust, respect of your horses. All this happened on a mid-day, frosty, chilly morning earlier this week in this neck of the woods/mountains of this southwest Colorado valley.
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