Gypsy, gypsy, gypsy..

Interesting sort of week.... after my miraculous week of riding Gypsy being fabulous, things took an abrupt falling-off-cliff sort of action. She was pissy and naughty, and all sorts of not wonderful things, when she had been so lovely all week before. That horse confuses me so much. And I, with my bad habits, got very frustrated with her. Cue the vicious circle.

Sooo last time I worked with her, I attempted to go about it quite differently. Wasn't planning on riding her at all, actually. Lunged her for quite a while, WTC.. Then sacked her out with plastic cans filled with pop cans. She learned very fast what those were all about! Had them sitting on her, dragging them next to her, and all sorts of horse-eating-scary-activity.

Exhibit A.

And then I found a basketball, and played with that too. Tossed it around her, rolled it between her feet. Strangely enough, it was a little more scary than the plastic bags, but thats all right.

And if that wasn't enough weirdness for one day, I loaded her up in the stocks. She was nice and calm...I've done it before ha. Played with her in there, then threw her in the trailer to chill for a little while. Nice and calm there too.

Nice and chill in the stocks!

And her 'trapped like

a rat' face in the trailer

I had been dreading riding her, since she was so bad for the last few rides, but I caved in and hopped on. I rode bareback...she is always better bareback, strangely, even though my new saddle fits her really well. Who knows. I tried to be real soft on her face and such, and she was much better. Sweet relief. And now miss Gypsy has a dentist appointment in a couple weeks! Yay! That should help plenty ! :)