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A New Rescue HorseCasino
December 20, 2013
Heather L
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A New Rescue Horse

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Earlier this week, I received a call from an animal shelter. They had a horse who needed a new home – fast. (They had contacted the rescue last week, and I left a few messages but due to illness we hadn’t heard anything back until that point.) If they couldn’t rehome this healthy horse, they were going to put her down later that day. We talked back and forth a bit, and she decided to send me a video of the horse. Once I saw the video, I knew that I needed to talk to Izzy asap. After viewing the…

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Big Bear Lake with Grandma and GrandpaBig Bear Lake
October 14, 2013
Heather L
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Big Bear Lake with Grandma and Grandpa

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Grandma and Grandpa were a few hours away from us at a conference, so they decided to stay a few extra days and take a bit of a detour over our way. We were thrilled to be able to spend a couple of days with them. During their time here, we took Grandma and Grandpa over to the ranch to see the horses, and then went to Chick-fil-a before heading to the outlet mall to look for shoes for Munchkin. On Saturday, D actually had off this week, so we were able to spend the day together. We thought it…

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Horse Training: No More FlopsSitting on Phantom
October 9, 2013
Heather L
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Horse Training: No More Flops

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After a couple of weeks of training with Phantom, today was the day that I would finally attempt to sit on his back. (Notice, I did not say ride – yet – as we needed to see how he would react to me being on his back.) I’d already been working on getting him to line up with where I would mount him using more than one location, and he was at a point where he was listening well for that. We had taken walks in several locations to see how he was with different surroundings as I wanted to…

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