Sassy Pants!!!

 Oooh, little missy!! Someone got in trouble today! 

Aside from the fact that she has a fat leg because she must have pawed or kicked at something and she's got a puncture just below her knee. It's just through the muscle but it's a hard place to examine. I hosed it, but now it's puffy, so she started SMZ's today. Luckily she LOVES fanta orange so she might just drink it without the syringe. hee hee.

Anyways, I worked Dan super quickly in the round pen to instill "respect" since he's had the weekend off because of his neck injections. (Don't worry, I just did a few laps each way and he mostly walked, barely trotted). So then I decided to take her in, mostly so I could make sure she was sound. Oh, she's sound!! 

We started off just walking and practicing "I go, you go, I stop, you stop" and that was going well. But then she suddenly just nipped me. Just out of the blue. So luckily, I had the whip in my hand and was able to whack her across the chest a few times. Then she was all spazzy so we went back to walking and she finally settled. So then I decided to try a little bit of sending her on the lunge and making her yield her hindquartes to me "crouching tiger" style. Surprisingly, she did really well. I say surprisingly because she's not had any previous training as far as knowing how to react. But she was pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty darn good. Of course she was wild and did some cantering and such. Which was not my intention. We only did 10 minutes or work max, and at least 5 of that was at the walk and not on the circle. So hopefully there was no damage done. I got some licks and chews and some deference so hopefully that will create some good long term effects. 

Silly baby girl. When I turned her back out, she pouted... she walked to her stall and didn't come snuggle. Of course when I got back to the barn and walked in the aisle she had her head poking out and was saying hi. And then she let me halter her and syringe fanta and SMZ's in her mouth, so.. no hard feelings. :) 

These photos aren't from today, but... she's so cute they needed to be shared.