Well Zippity is 2 now. I'm not ready to send her to the trainers yet, however I needed to do something with her. I needed to find a trainer that would come to my house and help me to work on ground work with Zippity. I didn't want someone to come in and do it for me I wanted to learn. I found a trainer that comes to my house once a week and helps me with Zippity. I can tell that I am feeling a lot more confident around Zippity. I still have a lot to learn.
I have been working on lunging Zippity and trying to get her to respond more to me and to listen to me. I am now putting the bareback pad on her when I work with her to get her use to having a cinch around her belly. I can get her to trot just fine but if I ask her to go faster she darn right will not do it, she fights it. I hope the trainer will have some idea as to why Zippity is doing this and how to fix it. When she fights like this it makes me wonder how Zippity will be once I get on her back. Is she going to fight it? Will I be able to handle her? Will I need to sell her because she is too much for me? So many questions that only time will tell. That's kind of a bad thing about me is that I HATE waiting to know, but there is nothing I can do about it.
Another thing we are working on is taking Zippity out on walks and trying to get her used to being out on her own without Ginger. She did really well the first time we took her out. When she got spooked she didn't freak out she would just stop and stare at what ever spooked her and then slowly move towards it, stuff like that gives me hope. I like to mountain ride and I cant have a spooky horse.
Soon we will be putting a saddle on her and a bridle. I wonder how she is going to take to that. Horses really are amazing animals. By the end of summer I should be able to saddle Zippity up and take her out around the block and have both of us confident with each other. Thats my plan anyways, only time will tell if that happens.
