I have been putting off the bath lesson because I knew it was going to be very time consuming, but I just couldn't take the dirty horse any more. I set aside the entire morning for our lesson, and decided that I would see how far we could get, and simply end on a good note. After three hours of approach/retreat, and rewarding every little step in the right direction, we have a clean horse from top to bottom! Hooray!
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| Wet Horse :) |
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| Ringin' the cow bell! |
Dr. Jen has me applying only the pink wound dressing in hopes of softening up his scabs before surgery... I would say it is working well, wouldn't you?
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| Left |
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| Right |
Remember these from day 1...?
...and today:
The right leg has made huge improvements in just one week. It is so much softer, inside and out. It feels like a soft lump of fat now, instead of a hard mass of scar tissue. The left leg is still the more painful one, and it is also very solid feeling. I have some boots to try on him, and as soon as we have protection for his tender feet, I will be taking him and Cohasset on lots of ponying rides. I did take him out once this week, and we made it about a mile on the softest ground that I could find, but had to turn back due to rocky ground. He remembered all of his ponying lessons too! What a good boy...
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| Whew! |
G'night all!
~Jackie
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