Horse catching problems - not only can she catch her pony now, he wants to be with her!
Yoshi is a handsome little pony lucky to have an owner as dedicated as 13 year old Mary is to his physical and emotional welfare. They came in to the clinic with a bond already developing. Even though in extreme fear, this plucky little horse had been careful not to hurt Mary. In 4 short days of a Spirit of Horse clinic, the increase in that bond was absolutely awesome.
Mary won the Horseland Warragul competition for a Spirit of Horse clinic – that’s the clinic based on Bobby’s Diaries. In her entry she said she wanted to give her ponies a better life by understanding them better and she certainly did achieve that objective – in spades!
Mary and Yoshi enjoyed riding at pony club together, but she mostly couldn’t catch him, he reared up when being saddled, was difficult and occasionally impossible to bridle, jumped around while she was trying to get on, wouldn’t stand still, he didn’t enjoy any touch on his body and severely disliked anyone touching his legs or feet (forget shoeing!). A simple bot fly caused him to bowl straight over the top of the nearest human. Altogether the ideal pony club mount (yes, that was a joke!)
The focus of Mary’s clinic was to help seriously terrified Yoshi to establish a deep comfort zone with humans on the ground. Getting that comfort zone was a really big deal and took quite some doing.
From that base Mary was able to expand Yoshi’s comfort zone and gain gentle leadership with him following her around at liberty in a 2 acre paddock, with him choosing to be with her, moving where she wanted him to go.
She used the same philosophy and principles to get Yoshi happy about being saddled. The first day of saddling, to get Yoshi in his comfort zone with the saddle took nearly three hours. The next day was less than 10 minutes. Not bad to go from rearing at the saddle to this in one day!
Then again, the same philosophy and principles were applied to getting him happy with his bridle. And then with Mary getting into the saddle.
The keys to Mary’s success were using the mind connection to listen to Yoshi in an extraordinary way; listening to her own fear and using that fear to make herself safe; listening to Yoshi’s fear, helping him to find a deep comfort zone too and then systematically expanding that comfort zone; breaking the task down into tiny steps so that he didn’t have to come too far out of his comfort zone; and understanding how to get gentle leadership.
Mary is excited about continuing the progress that she and Yoshi have made. In a very short period of time, she will have the perfect pony club mount, athletic, well mannered, comfortable and confident in everything that she asks him to do. Yoshi is already well on the way.
Go girl!
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