Minouri
10-06-2006, 12:19 PM
I think Scooter just had a tantrum. It wasn't dangerous, but it sure was funny.
He has been in so much lately because of his eye treatments that he is loopy! I put him out last night and he was bucking and bucking and running around like a nut.
I figured that if I was going to ride him on Saturday at the clinic, I'd better worka little of his crazies out. So I put him alone in the paddock like I always do and brought my lunge whip.
I hadn't even done anything yet and he started flipping out. He's stomping his feet. Blowing air out his nose. His nostrils look three times the size of this head. I just stood there looking at him wondering if he was nuts.....lol
He comes up to me with his nostrils flaring and his hooves slamming into the ground. He stops a few feet infront of me and looks like he's trying to stomp something dead beneath him. Then he settles into just an arrogant toss of the head and a few loud snorts.
I think he swore at me!
I had the lead line on the side of the paddock because I wasn't sure how well he'd be able to see....his eyes are still slightly dialated. So I pick that up and click that on and he's much better. I think he was afraid I was going to ask him to go when he couldn't see exactly where he was going.
(Which begs the question that if he's already mostly blind....why does impairing his vision by dialating his eyes affect him? And yes I kept him out of sunlight and with a flymask on.)
I hope his eyes are completely back to normal by Saturday or I can't bring him.
And on the lungeline he was not walking. Nope, just running around like a nut. I felt like I was flying a kite instead of lunging. I put the whip down and just let him fly around me. He knows how to work off of verbal commands but he didn't. I think he is just fed up with being stalled most of the day and unable to do much the rest because we had treated his eyes...and had some energy to let out.
When the sun goes down tonight I'll lunge him again. Hopefully he'll be a little more sane. Either that or in for quite a ride on Saturday.
He has been in so much lately because of his eye treatments that he is loopy! I put him out last night and he was bucking and bucking and running around like a nut.
I figured that if I was going to ride him on Saturday at the clinic, I'd better worka little of his crazies out. So I put him alone in the paddock like I always do and brought my lunge whip.
I hadn't even done anything yet and he started flipping out. He's stomping his feet. Blowing air out his nose. His nostrils look three times the size of this head. I just stood there looking at him wondering if he was nuts.....lol
He comes up to me with his nostrils flaring and his hooves slamming into the ground. He stops a few feet infront of me and looks like he's trying to stomp something dead beneath him. Then he settles into just an arrogant toss of the head and a few loud snorts.
I think he swore at me!
I had the lead line on the side of the paddock because I wasn't sure how well he'd be able to see....his eyes are still slightly dialated. So I pick that up and click that on and he's much better. I think he was afraid I was going to ask him to go when he couldn't see exactly where he was going.
(Which begs the question that if he's already mostly blind....why does impairing his vision by dialating his eyes affect him? And yes I kept him out of sunlight and with a flymask on.)
I hope his eyes are completely back to normal by Saturday or I can't bring him.
And on the lungeline he was not walking. Nope, just running around like a nut. I felt like I was flying a kite instead of lunging. I put the whip down and just let him fly around me. He knows how to work off of verbal commands but he didn't. I think he is just fed up with being stalled most of the day and unable to do much the rest because we had treated his eyes...and had some energy to let out.
When the sun goes down tonight I'll lunge him again. Hopefully he'll be a little more sane. Either that or in for quite a ride on Saturday.