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Dixie Horse Training: Desensitizing to Rope

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Upon bringing the horses home, we realized that we were going to need to start at the very beginning to make sure their were no holes in their training. They both are hot horses and need some serious groundwork and desensitizing. For the past few days, Munchkin has be faithfully working on desensitizing Dixie to the rope. She throws the rope over and around all parts of her body until it no longer phases her. As you can see in the pictures, this part of the desensitizing doesn’t really phase her. In fact, there are times where it looks like…

Equine Tuesday: Curry Brush Paci

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Phantom is an extremely curious horse, and he likes to test everything with his mouth. The other day, I sat my grooming kit on the ground while I was grooming him, and he proceeded to check everything over before grabbing the curry brush and mouthing it. He turned it in his mouth until he had the handle in his mouth. He then began to suck on it like a paci. Yep, that’s our crazy horse. lol!