It's been a while since Teddy and I have had a ride so when I went to get him he was elusive. It wasn't like he ran away or anything he just seemed wary and standoffish.
I saddled him up and did some ground work with him and he was so hyper he was rearing/bunny hopping along near the front fence when he heard a car come. I took it easy and asked him to lower his head whenever we stopped and it only took a few goes for him to trust me enough to keep those nasty cars away from him and relax.
In the saddle it was the Teddy of old; continual head tossing and extremely forward, so the lesson for today was to walk. Am I the only person who has a horse that wont walk?
I made him stop completely whenever he broke from walk into trot without being asked. He didn't really accept that but improved slightly. Next I went through the steering with my butt cheeks exercise and I discovered he knows it well. Keeping him working with continual changes only improved his head tossing slightly at the end or it could have been simply that he was tired of doing it, I dont know. If it wasn't for the head tossing I'd say he did fairly well under the circumstances.
After when he was pampered, rested and sent on his way I thought I'd go get his feed. My property's paddocks form a horseshoe shape around the house and we were in the front paddock which is right beside the shed the feed is in. I went to get the feed and when I got back Teddy saw me with the bucket and ran through the paddock, down the the side of the property, around the back paddock and into the paddock on the right, stopping right beside his feed bowl!
What a dag! He could have eaten from the bucket I had the feed in but he's so used to eating from his bowl he must have thought he better get to it quick smart or he'd miss out! As I'm walking over to him he's knickering to me as if to say, "Come on! I want what you go in that bucket!"
You gotta love him!
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