Doc seems to be healing very well. With the couple of days of sunshine, we were able to get a good look at his incision. It is still draining pretty well, and the swelling looks like it is going down. We are still trotting him, but yesterday he trotted himself for a very long time in his own pen. Alicia let down some lines so that her horses could run around and get some exercise. Doc got excited with all of the activity, and he was frolicing all over his pen. Several of the horses came to meet him over his fence. He enjoyed that.
The plan for today was to try ponying Doc with my horse, Cohasset...
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The boys meet |
When we first started out, everything was going very well. Doc just latched onto Cohasset's side, and off we went! We went straight, then we turned around, and even went off road a little. I decided to go ahead and try to go down the road for a while to see how far we could get. We did fine until Alicia's property ended, and so did the horse fence. Neither horse wanted to go any further away from home. I was able to convince Cohasset, but Doc was having none of it. He put on some excellent breaks, which forced me to give up some line to him (thankfully I had the 22' line). After that, we just started making a tangled mess trying to negotiate around trees, away from fence line, etc. Nothing terrible happened (whew!), but I decided that we needed to stop before we had a wreck. I would really like to take Doc down to the arena and try that again though!
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Our first attempt at ponying |
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
~Jackie
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