okay so the other day i um
did a video on what it looks like when a
horse is
checking in with you compared to when
it's probably going to
bite you
give you an indication it doesn't want
you around and i had a couple comments
come in about gracie whether or not she
could be settled
or
how she would handle it or something
like that and i thought that's a good
question i actually haven't settled her
in a while so it's a pretty good
observation
it could
could have been wrong who knows
but i actually haven't so i wanted to
verify that and uh she's here now i
haven't done anything with her and so i
wanted to do a
a no cut no i haven't you know i mean
you guys have to take my word on that
i've done absolutely nothing with her
since that point
i haven't even caught her yet so i'm
going to catch her
and bring her over to the saddle and
we're going to see if she manages cinch
compared to what i did that day and then
we'll talk about what happens
uh or what
will have happened
and why
or what i think is why hello she's all
the way over here anyways
i don't even have to turn the camera
much okay so i'm gonna capture her real
quick
hello
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okay
so
um let's put you guys
a little more this way maybe so we can
capture everything at once
so i haven't done a single thing just to
reiterate that
she's still
same horse she was a few days ago when i
did that video
but we're going to saddle her and see
how she does
i'm going to use my usual methods of
saddling i hope
where i try to stay below thresholds of
stuff so if she gets worried then i will
not go too far with her
um
make sure she's
not got a bunch of sand on her back
and we will
start with the saddle pad
now if you've followed this channel for
any length of time you'll know that she
has been ridden
she's been saddled ridden i did a little
bit of archery on her
which i'll link in the description
because i'm actually
very proud of her for that she did
fantastic better than plenty of horses
that i've been around that can be
written and she was she had just kind of
got we're just kind of wandered into the
idea of riding around quite a bit
and uh
and then
we did some archery and it was fantastic
so
let's uh
let's see what she thinks
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i'm just doing up the cinch
she's a tiny horse so
this cinch is big
on her
hello gracie
yeah i need to go to the other side if
you don't mind for a second
just gonna snug that
up enough that
if she gets worried
then the saddle won't fall off
and so
there's there she is
saddled up
um
and so the question now i had a lot of
faith that she would get this done i'll
say that from the get-go i did not think
that there would be a problem saddling
her i've never had a problem saddling
her other than the one
time uh which i think was about the
second time i saddled her and she did
in the small arena i think there's a
video up
and she did one little buck kind of
thing but settled real fast
okay that's not bad
it won't come off
at the very least so i'm going to draw
her first
rather than drive her
better
be cautious though in this kind of
approach because if she decided to shoot
forward
i would have to be ready to be out of
the way
she's going all right i'll drive her
around
keep going
so with everything we've done
she says i gotta go poo poos again
somebody put a saddle on
might as well poo right at the camera
stay calm
that's okay
so jen sneezed
and uh
gracie realized that there's something
on her back
and she'd like it to come off fast
and it wasn't a problem
and so i've never had a problem so my
experience with her is such that i don't
think i'm gonna see that problem now i'm
gonna just have her have a quick walk
come on
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so
the saddle is unfamiliar
as of late but
you know there's not a lot of not a lot
of concern
uh that i can really see
that i need to worry about or think
about
um
i think i can come check this out and
give her a scratches there's a not a
check in
so i won't hassle her i'm not gonna bug
her and so what is the difference
between now
uh and before if your horse didn't look
like this rick
i don't think it's really a problem so
i'm gonna come back here and i'm gonna
touch in here she doesn't like it so
here
okay
i'll touch again
and i'd said at the beginning of that
video that i have two horses one i know
that will do a good check-in and i'll
just kind of be here pretending i'm kind
of in a riding position
we'll see what he does
now ronnie has a little bit
there's a check-in let they see how his
ears are kind of floppy
when he does come over it's it's
it's done in a way
that is you'll you'll know it you'll
feel that it's quieter
there's a check in
and two that i can sort of make not
check yet i'm unhappy i'm going to touch
here
there's some more
right touch here
the nose comes back
uh the eyes get a little wider you
definitely see less blinking
i know you're very touchy aren't you
um and make that problem happen
so if i come over here and i give her
just some nice
touches and stuff like that and don't
give her a hard time well i'm not going
to set up the activity to be
confrontational
but i started that activity by touching
back here
which she doesn't like i know she
doesn't like that and then i followed
along along her belly
so
let's let's do a little demonstration
one more demonstration
i'll put this over here
now hopefully there's no connection for
you guys that saddling her has
had the problem stop
um i also don't believe the problem will
have stopped but i do know that if i
present to her
a very nice kind of grooming and
scratching
under here and here
and then i'll come under here and
scratch a little bit
now you see i don't have the same horse
that i did in that first video
because i haven't set the activity up to
start that kind of there's a good
check-in
to start that trouble
so
the moral of this video or the message
here i'm trying to say
is
there
it's
it's maybe not that
uh we should be making connections to
other things
uh
if if she gets angry that i touch here
she can't be saddled
i mean that's a lot of experiences that
are out there but it doesn't mean that
it is so
um so it's a fantastic question but as
you can see if i come over here and then
i just come under and
i scratch a little there's some there's
some happiness
there's kind of like oh that feels good
you see
and i'll go further back a little i'm
gonna come forward a little
and so we have a horse that says hey
that's not bad
that feels kind of good now
and it's all about how we present
what we're doing
do you need more
how we present what we're doing
that could get the results that we get
same horse
few days
different me
yeah
you're a good girl thank you
thank you for being a good teacher
yeah
anyways
that's it i'll see you guys the next one
hopefully that's been
interesting