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Relaxed and moving forward in a disunited canter…better use of his neck and back<\/p>\nTigger is revealing himself to be smart, alert, interested in communicating and gaining facility in that, and athletic.\u00a0 We have passed some critical milestones.\u00a0 About a week after the previous post, my then vet became my former vet, and I went back to some vets I’d had before.\u00a0 Tigger has now had his first full-on visit to that vet clinic, where everything went very well indeed, and things said by former vet became more obviously false.\u00a0 Tigger has continued to mellow, but mellow-for-him, not what everyone would call mellow.\u00a0 The big vet visit turned up the reason for his bitting difficulty…an injury to his tongue that’s left a transverse groove (probably actually a scar) across his tongue.\u00a0 So for the present, he’ll be retrained to go bitless.\u00a0\u00a0 In the meantime, he’s stretched his neck a lot, and is less likely, even when excited, to suck it back and imitate a giraffe with it.\u00a0 He’s fed at ground level, even though it means wasted hay, is outside grazing a lot, etc.\u00a0 He is trusting us more, comfortable with the routine, though still not fond of being brushed.\u00a0 We’re doing some desensitization by a slower process than many trainers, because I have the time…no rush to get him “finished.” If you want to read about the current challenges, they’re detailed on my FaceBook posts.<\/p>\n
Pictures follow:<\/p>\n
Relaxed and moving forward in a disunited canter…better use of his neck and back<\/p>\n
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<\/a>But in the presence of something scary…the head’s higher and the tail stiffly upright, the gallop 4-beat but correct in form<\/p>\n