Fyrsta frumtamningakeppni á Íslandi / Playday in Iceland

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Baga tölting

Video-Cut from yesterday.

One week later

Now life is coming back to me slowly. The first time I only could cry, hate everything around me and don't wanted to spend my time with Baga. She gave her best but she wasn't exactly what I desired. I don't wanted to feel joy and fun and was not listening to music or being glad with the shining sun.

On Sunday I drove to the Seven-Gate-Ranch to take pictures of the cutting clinic and there were too many friends and too much happiness that I could not stay in my sad mood. Roughly speaking I got my smile back during this weekend. But bad moments are still coming and going. Every day.

Today I had a good day with Baga. Actually I also had a good time yesterday because Klaus came to me after work and gave me a riding-lesson. Of course that was brilliant! He helped us a lot and I have some homework to do now. Of course I don't wanted to do the same like yesterday with Baga although I was so excited to exam the new stuff so I decided only to ride with bridle but bareback. Good decision. It was fantastic. I only wanted to ride some circles of slow trot (jog) in a good posture. Baga had different ideas but followed my instructions. I only needed to restart the engine from time to time. Then I noticed how good it felt to ride this trot. I never thought I could fall of her - it was easy like walk. Sometimes the trot felt very different to other steps and I wondered: is that jog? (Foto vom Basiskurs)

I called Bea and Kira to have a look at Bagas legs and started a new round. And in fact they told me that Baga is always tölting if I ask her for very slow trot. Only few steps. But everytime again. Walk - Tölt - Trot - Tölt - Walk. Of course I had no cameras with me in this great moment so I only can tell you this. The greatest thing ever: to find the tölt through not trying to tölt :o) And I not even used the reins. They were hanging down with a lot of slack...

Rest in peace my darling!

SSSól has gone. With her my heart and soul. By mischance she was caught in the hayrack. After she could be rescued all her muscles in the back were damaged. We tried a whole day to help her but after knowing that she would never ever be able to walk again, I decided to put her to sleep.