I grabbed the rope while he wandered over to the grass (Jimmy is very "let's ride bikes" if you catch my drift....) and pulled it out of through his legs. How he didn't step on it and decapitate/flip himself end-over-end while at that dead gallop is beyond me. I'll thank the Angel Doobie for that one.
We reversed and went back to trying to walk/trot...and Jimmy again, had an alternative plan. Around and around he goes. Dead-ass-gallop. Cool. Thanks Jimmy. That rocked .
I made him walk a few nice circles around me. Albeit they were 5' in radius because that's the only way he'd WALK not DEAD RUN.... but, it worked.
I threw him in his stall and borrowed a friend's horse to go on a quick trail ride. It's been almost a month since I've ridden last so it felt good to just get on a horse again and ride. Didn't last long since the bugs were both blood-sucking and annoying beyond belief (not to mention it was about 95ยบ), but Jess and I still had fun. Here are a few pix of me on her mare, Luna (AppyxArab):
On a side note: It is currently both wedding and horse show season. This means that every other album uploaded to Facebook is either a wedding, a shower, or a horse show. It is absolutely the worst form of torture I have ever endured. That's all.
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How about drugs? I use them rarely, but when you need them, you need them for safe rehab work.
Yep, I'm starting to think that phone call is next. I really hope when I sit on him that he remembers "Oh, I'm a good horse, that's right" but if that's not the case or he gets more out of control in the next few days (only 9 more until I can ride) then that call will be made to Dr. John!
If you know how to do IM injections (or have someone show you - it's easy), Ace can be done IM which means if your vet gives you some you could do it yourself. Or barn owner could do IV (if you trust them to do that; I won't do an IV injection myself).
Yep, I do both IV and IM injections myself (joys of owning jumpers = Legend/Adequan). We'll see how it goes.
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