I will admit it. I let myself get frustrated with Dodge on Sunday. If I get frustrated, Dodge gets frustrated, and then we both are fighting each other. It is a no win situation and just stresses her out, gets the training going nowhere, and makes me feel like utter crap.
So I feel horrible about it and decided to leave her alone the next few days to reset myself and her. I know what I did wrong, I am trying to do too much too fast. Instead of focusing on one aspect of training I'm trying to do 20, which is just not going to happen. I started thinking about when I trained Buck, we worked on one command over and over until he got it, then moved to the next one. This is what I need to do to Dogde. I can't ask for a walk, stop, and trot all in one day, it's too much.
I will be out there tomm to work on walk again. Which she is getting quite well. She seems to remember "easy" and the walk is improving. She still trys to bolt the other way, but I think is understanding that it is unacceptable. Once walk is improved we'll move to the woah again. I was going to start with woah, but walk kinda just happened.
I talked to the old owner last night who said she has always been ridden in a Tom Thumb, never a regular snaffle. I would prefer a western bit just because its how I ride, so I may go ahead and throw the curb on her on Weds after our lunging work at walk to see how much she improves. The old owner said she never really had a stopping problem, so I think Dodge is running through the bit because she can. I'm thinking that woah wasn't one of her best instilled commands. I'm working on beating it into her skull (not literally here!) but in the meantime I want to be able to know that stopping can be acheived. She is such a freaking sweet sweet horse. Damn her sweetness damn her!
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