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Tuddy

The way I look at it - if it bothers you, that makes it inappropriate. I work in the oil/gas/construction industry, so very male dominated. I have one pet name in particular that I am okay with, it is more of a nick name really. And then one of my co-workers tried to give me another nickname and I d...

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I am an Instagram freak. Like said above, it is like Facebook without all the chatter. And I post pics of my beautiful, chaotic life daily.

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And I will fervently hope and jingle that the cataracts issue is not significant. Having lost the young horse of a life time to cataracts not so long ago…Well, I will just hope that it is not that, or that if it is, it's very very minor. Sorry to hear about the loss of your horse. I am hoping that ...

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I got my daughter to ride her quarter horse, Stetson, and I climbed aboard the #bigblackfreighttrain and we headed out for our first official trail ride. It was only around our yard, but it was something. With Lucas' back hock the way it is, he is only good for about 20 minutes at a crack. But it wa...

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I had a #win yesterday. No one was at the barn yesterday, no one, not even the barn owner or her husband. I was the only one on the property. So what do I do? I saddle up my hoss and go riding into the sunset. No, not really. :mrgreen: But I did put a saddle on my Tuddy, lunged him, grabbed the moun...

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Demi - that Canadien in the picture is one and the same - the #bigblackfreighttrain. :) Spooking issues - I fell into the too careful trap, except it was me who regressed and lost a lot of confidence. Tuddy was/is spooking at the one end of the arena, so I had his eyes checked. Cataracts, both eyes....

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Finally heard back from the vet. Tuddy has immature catarats in both eyes. Left being worse than the right. I will be getting the specialist from the vet college out to do some further investigation.

Ugh... I'll keep ya posted.

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4. I teach my horse through methodical and progressive introduction to the action of the bit through in hand work (flexions, teaching that lifting the bit into the corners of the lips is the action that results in the horse releasing the jaw and coming on to the bit - I generally follow the Philipp...

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I grabbed a saddle for trial when I went to the tack store to get probiotics for Tuddy. We have a winner...Kinda... once he loses some poundage, it will fit even better, but at least it isn't pinching! It fit Maddie's QH even better, so she was pretty tickled as she can saddle up either horse now wi...

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Well.... Tuddy had cranio/massage/osteo done yesterday. The things we can learn from body workers! I still haven't heard from the damn vet about what actually is going on with his eyes, and if I don't hear from her by noon tomorrow, I am parking myself outside that clinic after work until I get some...

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I finally got a chance to work on one of my goals - get back on Lucas! My nieces from Alberta were down for the weekend, and one of them is looking at getting a Canadian. I went and caught the #bigblackfreighttrain and let her go for a rip around the yard on him. For not being rode since February, h...

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I got back on the gym wagon too. I have been lifting 4-5 days a week with some cardio thrown in there. Those pistol squats are hard. I have been using the smith machine at the gym to stabilize myself so that I can get some depth to them. I have been cleaning up my diet and have been feeling a lot be...

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God-Gives-Us-Only-What-We-Can-Handle.jpg This is what I am going with.... lol! I am not really a religious person, but I am a spiritual one, so the universe must have something in store for me. Thanks for all the encouragement! I called the vet back to find out what exactly is happening and she is ...

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Sending good vibes.

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I had Tuddy's eyes checked by the vet on Friday. I was not able to be there myself as I had another commitment, so my coach, who is also the barn owner, held him for the vet. The big red baler is still scary after all this time, even though it is getting better, but I just wanted to rule out a physi...

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Wowza! LOVING THE UPDATES!!!! Had a liberty session with Tuddy last night, it was pretty humid out and I hadn't pulled him out of his pen for a few days, so I just let him wander the yard on his lead rope and eat grass. I think he was pretty happy with that. I will update his thread with our antics ...

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Yay for you! Can't wait to read more about your adventures!

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Congrats!

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I will play. Yonka (aka #blondebastard) - start lunging him and getting him back in the game. Lucas (#bigblackfreighttrain) - hop on and see how that hock is holding up to 10 min of riding Stetson (don't have a hashtag name yet for this guy, lol) - throw daughter up on him and get them back riding T...

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Hey peeps! Hope all my American friends enjoyed their long weekend. :) I finally had a proper riding lesson on Friday with the #warhorse. It was pretty good, we didn't even lose our minds when riding by the big red baler, that was a win in itself. :lol: Here is a video of a few minutes near the end ...

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I feel elated enough about her progress that a friend had to talk me down from potentially showing her. She suggested more outings with less pressure than a show. I feel the same way about Tuddy. I know he would do well in a show, but his brain would probably explode. Excellent update, by the way! ...

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My bodybuilding coach is from Kentucky, he sends me images of him drinking Maker's Mark quite a bit, so I bought a bottle. Wooooweee, that was yummy!

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Thanks Sue B and demi, you are very encouraging. I didn't see much of him this past weekend as it was terrible windy, and I just needed to be at home to do other farm stuff. But a certain someone turns 9 years old today, so I will be stopping at the tack store for some birthday treats for the big #w...

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I am sorry to hear about your luck! If you are on the hunt for a more economic saddle, I am currently using a Collegiate Convertible with the adjustable gullets. It fit my big black Canadian when I used the extra wide bar. You can usually find one of them used on an online classifieds site (Craigsli...

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Cheval Canadien (yes, I am biased). Where are you located?

Check out the Canadian Horse Link http://www.canadianhorselink.com/

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Oh hi! :D No training update, but maybe someone can relate with how I am feeling? I think I have been on Tuddy twice since the clinic. I am working some real stupid hours at work, which come to an end as of 3:30 pm today, and have just been to exhausted to do anything else. Does anyone ever lose the...

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I love reading this. It makes my journey with Tuddy seem that much bearable and the goals attainable.

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First off, you are not an idiot. :) Secondly, this tattoo is a nice base for future improvement, think of it as the bottom of the training scale. ;) I am sorry that you are not impressed with it, I can see where you are coming from on this, I would be searching high and low for a new artist that can...

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We had a really good couple of lessons the past week. Wednesday, we just had a ground work lesson and introduced him to poles and he did fantabulous. I think he will be the horse that has to stop and eat the flowers at each letter marking or jump standard. Goof. Thursday, I didn't see him, Friday we...

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I took out some ground beef last night. Going to fry it in grape seed oil with garlic and oregano. I will put on a pot of macaroni and when both are done, I will drain the mac and chuck it into the ground beef and mix it all up and let sit on low for a minute or two. I don't eat dairy, but after I g...

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Some clinicians are more geared toward a certain type of rider. Eddo is one of them. I usually recommend people watch clinics before signing up for them. Usually the clinician is not in charge of schedule. That said, ipaid quite a lot of money for a clinician who rushed my horseoff her feet for mos...

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Thanks for the support everyone. :) As for what he did, it was his attitude how he went about teaching me. The one remark really hit me - "I didn't come all the way to Regina for you to show me that you can't do it" Really? Because that is what I am paying you to do. I show you what I can'...

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It wasn't him who had to cancel the first lesson last minute, it was me. If I hadn't had other commitments, I would have probably stuck around to ride my lesson. As for being rude, I wouldn't call it rude, but very arrogant. Arrogance is a lack of respect, in my opinion, and if you can't respect the...

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I spent $280 for a weekend of ride time and ended up riding for 15 minutes and 22 seconds. According to the video on my phone. I don't understand. What did you do the rest of the time? Did you leave at the end of the weekend, or part way through? I booked two private lessons with Eddo over the week...

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I lost my sh*t yesterday at my lesson with Eddo. Not the type of "OMG I can't do this, and I am so overwhelmed wahhhh" but a "tears flowing holding myself back from being disrespectful but really wanting to because it seems like its okay for people to be disrespectful to me, my horse ...

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Oh the idea of a schooling show is out the window. Totally ok with that. I received some feedback from his previous trainer. Need to dig into a little further.

Thanks!

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Love it!!!!

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So, again thanks to everyone for the comments, suggestions, and support, today's ride I focused on being more correct myself, sitting up, lengthening my leg, and then we started to work more on shoulder fore, and what I call a moving turn on the forehand , as described by Steinbrecht. It pushed Den...

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I would guess the mounting block incident frightened enough that he is now looking for scarey things at the mounting block. Time for a major intervention. Are you confident your trainer is handling his spook in a way that is decreasing it? Punishment or harsh correction after a spook can intensify ...

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Well, he piled my trainer off the mounting block, again, on Tuesday. RRRR! But I did find out that horses cannot distinguish red. So the big red baler in the corner of the arena is legit something to be worried about. Bolting from the mounting block is not. I have a lesson tonite, I will let you kno...

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He is getting better, yet yesterday was the day he decided to bolt when my coach was getting on him and she fell flat on her face and he took off. Little.bugger. We then had a lesson in standing for mounting. We had the vet out for teeth, coggins testing and vaccines last week, I should have had the...

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Thanks for sharing! I didn't have the sound on, but she looks like very responsive and attentive.

On another note - swallowtail saddle pads just look amazing on a horse - particularly a bay one.

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Some of these are too cute! I have to be careful because of the exchange rate.

And my arse is a full axe handle wide, and I don't have an issue with flaunting it and neither should anyone else!!!

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orono wrote:I sent you a pm!

Got it and responded!

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Yes!!!!

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Most women love shoes (me included) and have closet full of them... Me... it's breeches... I don't buy the standard, beige, tan, white or black or brown... I have to buy these kind. So, I did... https://www.amazon.ca/Saddlery-Ladies-Riding-Breeches--Leopard/dp/B00LYNDXH4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1...

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I am sorry to hear of your loss, he was a beautiful horse.

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We made it past the baler.... We had one epic spook, and I was like, "Okay buddy, that was you being ignorant because we walked by it five times already, so here we go". And we did many circles in front of the baler/that end of the arena, because "C" can be an issue at times too....

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I was in the mountains (Banff) May long weekend one year. It was blizzard-ing. I work in Regina, Saskatchewan and this was the weather today - when I left work, snow on the ground and had to scrape my windshield. Mid morning, was a down pour of rain with some hail, now we have sun and it is melting ...

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But in Tuddy's case I'm not sure it matters whether he's always required to go down there or allowed to stay further inside his comfort zone, because the trainer, who probably isn't worried about coming off if he loses it, takes him down there? Sure, but the trainer isn't feeding into his spookines...

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