Hottie day 15

Excellent day! Huge break through with the rope, gotta love that round pen! I picked up all four feet with the rope and she is doing great with the flagging we did today. She is learing of seeing things out of her right eye but is trying really hard to deal with it! I am feeling much better today about her progress!

CORRECTION ON THE SPANISH MUSTANG. I was informed today that there are no more pure spanish mustangs in the wild. Although she really carries the characteristics she is of "spanish type" NOT a spanish mustang. She sure is beautiful to me and is more spanish looking than some of the "REGISTERED PURE SPANISH" horse pictures I have seen. Maybe there was a paso in the woodpile?

Day 14 Trials and tribulations

This is the standoff. It went on for about an hour. She was mad! Really mad! Did I mention MAD? If she could have thrown herself down and had a tantrum I do believe she would have.

The round pen went up after the standoff! There will be no more standoffs thanks to Caren. I should have let her put it up over the weekend but I just hate to make a portion of her arena unusable for her. For this I must say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU CAREN! (and mom for her amazing superwoman strength)




Standing with the ropes behind her. They are not hooked to her, they are hooked to the saddle horn. She just hates the fact that they are even there and kicks with great accuracy when trying to kill them. Amazing how each and every time she kicks exactly in the right spot to kill the rope!

When I first got Hottie I thought she looked like a Paso or something along those lines. She looks gaited every now and again. I googled it and sure enough there are gaited mustangs. I am thinking she is a Spanish Mustang, they are naturally gaited from what I read. I guess we will find out more as she progresses with her training and movement. COOL!


Zeus the 3 legged atomic wonder pit bull! He has had hard workout chasing Hottie and the ropes around the arena!

He is an awesome dog!

Hottie day 13 Things went a bit sideways today!

The one good thing we learned today was to back! Woo hoo the back is down pat. Dragging ropes off the saddle in a larger area NOT SO MUCH! I decided she needed to drag ropes in the big arena and she used the whole thing to bronc, kick, spin, whirl, twirl and run like hell that was only one rope tied on to the horn! The great thing is she is very level headed about the whole thing in a scared kinda way! This is the first time we have done something that she didn't like so much that she broke into a sweat. So she got her first bath. She was fine with the body although she did move around a bit, loved drinking out of the hose but HATED THE WATER ON HER LEGS! So something to work on tomorrow along with more ropes. Today was a 3 session day. I went in the morning and worked on the ropes, then went back around noon and just hung out with her so she didnt hold a grudge! Then I went back around 3:00 to do some groundwork. Hence the backing!!!!! I could work with her all day she is so willing to learn new things and always seems like she is fresh minded to move on to the next task. She is shedding out and wow is she beautiful. You get past the large head (as large as my torso) and she is just gorgeous!