I wanted Ben to stretch his legs Monday, but relax his brain. So we went for a hack with me on his incredibly comfy, saintly 25 yo pasture mate and Ben in tow. They were PERFECT for it. Really Ben is set up to be excellent at this - he's super agreeable and happy to go wherever, listen to whatever cues, he just needs someone to help with the bravery. And his pasture buddy is unspookable but could use some motivation to go into a big, swinging forward walk. Ben naturally strides out in that nice big forward walk, making them perfect. Ben occasionally rubbed his mouth/lips on his buddies shoulder and got some pinned ears to put him back in line. Good boys!!
Honestly, one of the most fun/cutest things I've ever done. Good for both of them, I'm going to keep it up for sure. In other news of "things Ben loves", we're going back to the Chi Institute next week.
I told Ms. GY if we couldn't navigate the gate at the end of the pasture then I shouldn't be out on the trails, but they did it like pros. The only hairy part was when we came back in and his buddy was totally sure we were done after entering the gate and started off pretty quick towards the barn while Ben was snatching grass. Ben caught up nicely and without a fuss, but I had to reel them both back in to circle back to the gate.
Blogger inserted these pics backwards, so the end of the ride is first.
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Ben continues posing, pasture buddy is tired of the paparazzi trying to get his ears up
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| Happy ears from both of them |
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| Ben was THE MOST PLEASED and RELAXED the whole time. My <3 was so happy. We met a new mini in a pasture at one point and Ben was totally chill with his buddy there to make it NBD. |
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| Start of the ride, pasture buddy wonders what he's gotten himself into |
aww sounds like a perfect way to unwind and enjoy the ride!
ReplyDeletealso re: blogger loading photos in reverse order... when you first open a new post and click into the body of the post to start typing, hit backspace 2-3 times until the default format switches from "paragraph" to "normal." for whatever reason, just changing the format manually doesn't seem to work as reliably.
OOooh. That makes sense, sometimes it is randomly right, must've been accidentally doing that. Thanks!
DeleteI love that you ponied his buddy and they were both like NBD. Looks like it was a success!
ReplyDeleteIt was such a success, I was stupidly happy like a little kid riding a pony for the first time. Plans to do it much more often and revisit the part of the neighborhood with an overly friendly donkey that had Ben running sideways one time.
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