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| Tracey |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 3:28:11 PM
You may recall my adopting Sunny back in February. She's been a long, slow, drawn out process. It's been difficult to win her trust, but I have managed to touch and brush the left side of her neck and shoulder.
However, she does not want me on her right side. Up until last month she wouldn't even look at me with that eye. But on Saturday she made a big change over and let me step up to her and touch her!
I'd been using a lariat with her, which wasn't as threatening to her as my hand. She's been letting me toss it over her back from the left side, but still not reach for her from the right. On Saturday she stood still and let me touch the side of her face, work down her neck and onto her shoulder and back. I was so close I decided to put the lariat down and try touching with my hand, and she let me!
Here she is the the lariat tossed over her withers from the left side:
And with her ridiculous looking head dress that she allowed me to take a picture of:
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| Horseyrider |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 7:40:28 PM
Erin, they don't necessarily have to have been hurt in the past to be wary of one side. Horses are traditionally handled from the left side, and the right is handled less. Sometimes horses are really goosey about that side; but once you get them going on that side they're often more dependable on that side than the left. They sort of flip-flop.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - May 14 2007 : 6:36:12 PM
Was she hit on the right side? Maybe her eyesight is not very good in that eye. We have a cat who is blind in one eye and she hates to have you come up on her blind side.
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