Solomon was not in the mood today. Last time he was kinda into it, but this time, no-ho-ho-ho-noooooooo.
I actually managed to get one bean, but he had a much much bigger one up in there, and the cleansing had taken a LOOONG time, so he was SO THROUGH. Through enough to start cocking his leg in warning, and even to cowkick a couple of times, but at least not at me. I kept grabbing his ankle and making him put his foot down, which I think a less kind horse would not have put up with. Once we were done and I had moved him to his more familiar cross-ties, he continued squealing and kicking out when I touched his side or his belly, so I kept petting him and telling him "no" when he did something bad, making soothing noises when he didn't, until he settled down again. And even dropped. But I did not have my gloves on at that point, and I decided to end it on a positive note, so there was some hand grazing.
That made things okay again. *shudder* I have to go back in after that bean eventually though. DO NOT WANT.
By the way, I don't know what you call this on a horse... on a dog it's called a dewclaw.
This one is kind of getting long. Should I be doing something with it? Or should I just leave it be? I am guessing the answer is leave it be...
2 comments:
It is the vestigial toe and they peel off on their own. Good luck with the bean, we have to tranq the gelding I ride, he hates it so much.
Thank you. :D
Re- tranqing. I think I'll call the vet and ask her if I should get an IM Ace shot and just tranq him to get the bean, because getting kicked is not something I'm hoping to do any time soon, hah!
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