Catching, simplified.
This past week, I’ve mostly been working on liberty stuff with the mule – hanging out with him, being friends, and asking him to walk with me around the paddock.
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Catching: a time line of events
Although I’m always dealing with varying degrees of a sore back (I have lordosis in my lower spine and mild scoliosis in my upper spine, because I am a very
The mule and his therapist, part 3
Saturday was the mule’s final session with Stacey. As with last week, it took place at liberty in the field and the mule was very eager to take part (although
I will be very glad when this catching problem is something we can look back on and laugh at.
Well, the mule’s catchability did not last the week. The last two times I caught him, Iris had already been taken out of the field; and as he was reluctant
The mule and his therapist
On Sunday we had a visit from Stacey Bevan, a healer and animal communicator who specialises in horses. I’d come across her name on a local Facebook group, where the
The mule wears saddles now. Saddles are cool.
I am very proud of my mule today: he wore his saddle and girth for the first time! Walked around with it like he’d been doing it his whole life.
Continue readingThe mule wears saddles now. Saddles are cool.
A sunny stroll on the common
It was a beautiful afternoon, warm and sunny, and I ambled out to the field to see if the mule could be persuaded to come out for a walk with
The original all terrain vehicle
Today we discovered something else the mule can do with his bells on: he can jump! Mules are so. Cool. So cool. I watch videos of people in the States
First snow with the mule
Yesterday wasn’t a working day for the mule, but I caught and haltered him in the morning so that I could give them all some grass. He was perfect. He started to
Guess who didn’t want to be caught. AGAIN.
The mule had Tuesday off, as usual. We’d run out of hay so I went up first thing to put his halter on, which meant that I could move the fence for them instead.