If you've followed this blog you'll already know that when Essy met Margrit Coates on February 10th 2013 it was the first time in 15 years of being with him that I'd ever witnessed him lick a human's hands.
Since February he is a different horse. Calm, Confident, Courageous, Chatty. He no longer shrinks back from strangers approaching him.
Over the years we've been together he's been in close quarters with other horses. He has always shared a paddock with his life long friend Solar Sue. Yet, despite being a playful horse and happy to pull rugs off the back of field mates, he's never groomed a horse or known how to accept them trying to groom him.
Today I introduced him to another opportunity to groom. He is learning. Even at 21 years of age, he is getting close - as the photo shows. He still really doesn't get it and has no clue he is to use his mouth and teeth, but im hoping the penny will drop! It's such a natural horse to horse behaviour, except I guess for a horse whose early years were deprived of horse interaction.
I live in hope and know ill weep buckets!
Since February he is a different horse. Calm, Confident, Courageous, Chatty. He no longer shrinks back from strangers approaching him.
Over the years we've been together he's been in close quarters with other horses. He has always shared a paddock with his life long friend Solar Sue. Yet, despite being a playful horse and happy to pull rugs off the back of field mates, he's never groomed a horse or known how to accept them trying to groom him.
Today I introduced him to another opportunity to groom. He is learning. Even at 21 years of age, he is getting close - as the photo shows. He still really doesn't get it and has no clue he is to use his mouth and teeth, but im hoping the penny will drop! It's such a natural horse to horse behaviour, except I guess for a horse whose early years were deprived of horse interaction.
I live in hope and know ill weep buckets!
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