Hi everyone,
I hope everyone had a good first day back to school! School has not started for me yet, yay! Anyways, as you have probably already guessed, we went to the rescue on Saturday. Jester is doing fine. I groomed him first thing when I got there and then we went back out into the creek with our friends kristin, with Buddy, and Kara with Black Tie. We found another entry to the creek. Jester and I were the first ones to go down it and it was a little muddy. So as we were going down it Jester started freaking out and trying to spin around and take off. So I let him calm down and eat some grass; once he was calm I asked him to move his front foot one step. Once he did I rewarded him. Pretty soon he was confident enough to pull his hind legs out of the mud and come down. He relaxed once we got going in the creek. We didn't have much time out there since it was almost time for the evening feed. I bagged his supplements while waiting. After evening chores were done, we got the horses out and went for another trail ride. I actually used a different bareback pad that was kinda more like a saddle. It was very comfortable to ride in! So we mounted up in the indoor arena and then went out to the big pasture for a little while. Then we came back down and cooled the horses off. I rinsed Jester off in the washrack since he was still sweaty and hot. I am thinking of getting a bigger container to hold his supplements since his is cramped and small. We are going to be out there again either tomorrow or the day after.
~Steph