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Last night Roo and I did ring work while others were in the ring. There was a horse being lunged and a horse being cooled off after a lesson, so I thought this might be a time to take Roo and his attention span out for a spin.
He was actually very good. Once or twice he started the little twisting, drop the head thing that most young horses like to do when they want to play, but I have a noise I make which is a noise all of my horses associate with "quit it" and he has really picked up on this noise. Whenever I make it, he stops what he is doing and looks at me...LOL...and then shapes up and responds to his next cue. It's sort of an eh-eh-eh noise. At any rate, we managed to halt and stand and give the left shoulder and someone step over on the right shoulder and back up successfully, and walk around the ring quietly while the others were doing their thing.
The temp has fallen here, and will be very cold tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night (upper 20's) so Roo will wear his blanket on these nights, but have it taken off for turn out. He has quite a coat and I worry about him getting overheated running outside.
I'm giving him tonight off, as I have a dinner engagement, but back to work on Saturday, doing some lunge line work.
The dentist comes next Wednesday to check his and Eagle's teeth (as well as my four at home) and the vet on Monday. He will have a week of appointments himself.
Roo has been a very good boy and we love him alot! We are so glad he joined our family.
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