Sam's Week 5

Sam is doing so well, but we did hit a few bumps this week.

We learned that we absolutely must do as much desensitization as possible and that his natural mating instincts are fairly strong.

Sam has obviously staked his claim as Sunny's man, despite Sunny not agreeing. Sam did not appreciate Buddy interacting with Sunny(who is now out of heat) and decided that he could not let that happen. Poor little Buddy did not no he was doing anything wrong (and he wasn't) but Sam thought buddy was making trouble. All three of them were just fine together, before Sunny went into heat. Now the tides are still a little rocky between Sam and Buddy, and Sunny kinda hates Sam again. We think as long as Sunny is not out with the boys, they chould be fine.

We took Sam to his lesson for this week and were introduced to many new ways to get him used to very odd things, things that could happen while riding. One way was to do the rope exercises we were already doing with Sam in a different manner. We used the Jolly Ball to accomplish this. These exercises were very good for Sam, and even some of the other horses. The ball was very popular here, in fact, a little thief came and stole while we were working with Sam. I was able to get a picture of this.

The Jolly Ball and the thief



Sam started doing a couple of new things this week. He went out on the 22 ft line and made an okay-ish circle. Before this week, his circles were terrible. He has also started going in the trailer, turning around and then just standing (not coming back out) and waiting for a treat. Before this week, he would usually try to walk back out of the trailer instead of stand in it.


Sam chillin' with the cows

Sam has been terrified of the cows across the street, but then, we let some cows go out behind Sam's pasture. Within two days Sam was just hanging out with the cows (on the other side of the fence of course). In the picture, you can only see the white one, but there are some black cows hiding in the trees.

I am sorry I do not have more pictures this week, if I get some, I will post them.

Sam you are doing great and thank you for all the new information and love you have provided us.