Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Last Few Days...

Have been magical. I have been playing with Finale every day and let me tell you, she is one special horse. I have never really interacted with her before but even within the last few days we have formed a bond. She now moves to the subtlest signals with my body language... we are mastering everything at the walk. I have let the play sessions be short, but meditative, so that I do not overdo it. Nonetheless, I have had great fun with her and our liberty is already good at the walk. I have not tried to trot her yet because I want to "master" the walk first... because it is the stepping stone to everything else.

As I play more and more with Finale, I realize more and more how absolutely distant Cherish is- and probably more so than I would have liked to previously admit. She still has a bond with me, still enjoys being with me, and we can still have good times, but she is so... distant from people, even so. If I spend a lot of undemanding time with her, she will warm up to me after a bit and then she is very warm but it takes every time. I have decided that instead of trying to reach great heights with her, I will just be with her every time I go out there and "play it by ear" so to speak.

To tell the truth, I had expected Finale to be sort of a project to where I would train her to be ridden at Freestyle nicely after doing On Line, and then turn her over to my mom and let her enjoy playing with her. Little did I know how amazing she was. I just love that girl. She doesn't really fit into any of the "Horsenalities" on the horsenality charts because she's just so soft, so bright, and just wants to be with you and please you. I guess you would call that a "LBE" in mild form, but she's not too apt to go, she just loves to be with humans. I will have to say, I don't think that my first post on "Focusing on Finale" exactly hit it off right. I have taken her as my special girl now... That is not at all eliminating Cherish, but I didn't know that I would have room enough for two horses in my life, much less in my heart. I was wrong.

2 comments:

Parelli Central said...

Sounds like Finale is a very centered horse. That's very, very cool!

Petra Christensen
Parelli 2Star Junior Instructor
Parelli Central

Kara said...

She tends to get fairly dominant, actually. I don't know why, I suppose it's my developed leadership area of my personality, but she listened to me very well at this point... even after only a few days.