Andy Gets Acupuncture

The vet came to see Andy on Saturday. After watching him for for all of 5 minutes he was able to see where the problem spots were. We discussed what Andy had been doing for the last few months (all of nothing..) and what my plans for him were. He had an acupuncture treatment and I was advised to get him back into work. I lunged him on Sunday and I will be doing so again tonight. Tomorrow I will lunge him and ride him and then he can have Wednesday off. Thursday I will lunge him again and then lunge and ride on Friday. It should be interesting to see how this all turns out.

On Saturday after the tranq wore off I turned him loose in the arena to have a roll and he decided to run around instead. There was a pole on the ground that he jumped every time he came up to it.

We also went for a walk outside to cool down. I've been working on getting him farther and farther away from the barn on his own. I've only been working in-hand but I am working up to the point where I can hack him alone. That is my goal for this summer - to go hacking alone. If I can get him walking to the woods and back calmly there is no reason why I can't take him hacking. I hate having to rely on someone else to be there in order for me to go hacking.

It will feel good to ride my pony again.