denise42
14th Apr 2005, 12:11 PM
Well as you know I am one of the Nervious Nellies.
In light of us sharing our stories of things that we have over come:
I have finially taken my horse camping :) We went last weekend and I could not have had a better time. She loaded into the trailer , with just the slightest bribe of a carrot. She hasn't been in a trailer for over 2 years. We got to camp , and it was dark, I put her in the pipe corral I had taken to our camp a few weeks before and she was fine all night, even when the neighbours dogs discovered her at 2am and sounded the alarm.
I rode her all over our 5 acers, with no problems.. :D I wanted to take her into the woods across the street , but there was some kind of extened hunting season, and a lot of gun fire. My hubby & my brother rode their ATVs all over the camp, right up to her !! She didn't move she was eating hay and just looked at them as if to say , " Do you mind I am eating " :p
So all the things that I thought would set her off into a mass of snorts and spooks didn't.
Things can't get much better than riding your horse all day then sitting around a campfire with friends and family, with a beer in one hand and your horse in the other. :D
In light of us sharing our stories of things that we have over come:
I have finially taken my horse camping :) We went last weekend and I could not have had a better time. She loaded into the trailer , with just the slightest bribe of a carrot. She hasn't been in a trailer for over 2 years. We got to camp , and it was dark, I put her in the pipe corral I had taken to our camp a few weeks before and she was fine all night, even when the neighbours dogs discovered her at 2am and sounded the alarm.
I rode her all over our 5 acers, with no problems.. :D I wanted to take her into the woods across the street , but there was some kind of extened hunting season, and a lot of gun fire. My hubby & my brother rode their ATVs all over the camp, right up to her !! She didn't move she was eating hay and just looked at them as if to say , " Do you mind I am eating " :p
So all the things that I thought would set her off into a mass of snorts and spooks didn't.
Things can't get much better than riding your horse all day then sitting around a campfire with friends and family, with a beer in one hand and your horse in the other. :D