Vinur

Since the last post our all of us have really been getting into the swing of only having one horse, it is kinda weird having to work around each other, but were getting along fine.

I took Vinur out for a ride the first time ever, Sara has usually been with me on another horse. We did a little friendly, followed by a few other games, heres a photo

We decided to turn left, then suddenly out of nowhere a huge massive tractor with horse eating equipment jumped out of nowhere, Vinur looked, then chewed, and didn’t care as it drove past. He wasn’t sure about a pond straight behind a hedge but with a little encouragement he was fine. After 5 minutes we turned and Vinur, wanting to go went into tölta, so I slowed him we walked then he tried again to tölta.

The rest of the time Sara played with Vinur as I’m working hard on our trailer to get it finished to sell, but I have done little bits here and there with him, but nothing special.

Over the weekend we gave him a good brush and then a bath. I’m only ever used to a horse who loves baths, so I just went along with things, it took Vinur a few moments to relax but he was fine, he wasn’t too happy with water in the beginning of zone once, but with a little retreat and then move very slowly he was allot happier, he was also unsure about his sheath and under the tail being washed, but a little retreat and then slow approach we did what was needed. Photo

I then helped the yard owner setup a caravan awning, Sara and Vinur were stood about 3 metre away and he wasn’t at all bothered when it jumped up and walked over to the caravan. I also forgot to mention that when we were giving Vinur a bath the yard owner drove past twice in his tractor with bales of hay, and although me and Sara stood back ( think we are too used to Charlie) Vinur didn’t care one iota.

and that leads me onto my conclusion, as I’m doing more with Vinur I am finding myself to be so much calmer and relaxed, I don’t have to be on guard for trailers or re-think doing things, Vinur’s energy is so much lower and he goes into a new situation with a calmer more positive energy, if something happens you can work through it rather than just spin and run (obviously a slight exaggeration). But I find Vinur so much easier and willing to work with, whereas with Charlie it was always some sort of dominance game going on, we could never just have fun.