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As it is the last month before state we have been working hard on all his little problem getting scooter ready for adoption. Unfortunately we have run into a bit of a problem, he wont let us touch his ears. This was a problem when he first came to us but we were able to work through it. Now, however, he is being worse than when we started rearing and doing anything to keep his ears away from us. It was extremely random; one day he freaked out while i was trying to get his bridal on and since has been really scared of us touching even near his ears. He had been still a little shy of his head but i was able to always coax him into it but now he is is being really bad. Me and my dad tried many ways to get him to stop, even lying him down, but nothing was working and he was hurting himself just to get away. Finally we found out that he was reacting more to our pre-cues (what we did before we touched his head to try and calm him down) and so we went straight for the ears and when we got them he would finally relax. We would then use our previous pre-cues as a reward for him being good. we aren't sure if he will ever really get over his PTSD for his ears but we hope we can find the right home that can handle him if he does decide to overreact.

Scooter has been sound enough to ride lately and therefore we have been working on the freestyle. Our freestyle will be based off of the movie Braveheart. It is a Scottish s movie about a fight between Scotland and England. My freestyle will have some Scottish themed music and I will be dresses up as a Scottish warrior, kilt and all. Scooter will be mostly untouched dress up wise but will instead side pass over fake swords and pivot on/around a homemade podium as well as going over a tarp representing the sea in the beginning. He has improved his listening to me while we have practiced this pattern and we even got to show it when the homes for horses checkup occured. He has been fun to ride and I am going to be exited to find him a suitable owner.

Scooter has improved a bit but we have had a hard time keeping him sound enough to ride. Between his lack of frog, abscesses, and his navicular he has had very little riding in April and almost none in May. Recently we have taken to bringing him to an arena once every other week for riding because the sand is better on his feet. We put slides on him just before he got too lame to ride and it was nice to see him get used to them and even learn to use them so quickly. He will be a great cow horse for someone since his stops, spins and quick transitions are great and although he isn't too cowy he understands how to track them when you ask. He could even possibly pull off being a reining horse since he is really good at that stuff but it might be a little rougher on his feet. Over all he has been a blast to train and I am highly exited to see what kind of people are going to look at him at State.

I have started working on my baby horse, Cocoa, along with Scooter. Because of this, Scooter has been working with ponying (dragging another horse alongside them) and we had no problem whatsoever. Immediately he pulled when my baby horse tried to stop and couldn’t care less when Cocoa pulled the lead rope under his butt and pulled. Instead he ignored it and stood his ground while I fixed the situation. I had tried to use spurs with him but I keep forgetting to put them back on when I take them off to ride Cocoa but he has done a pretty good job without them. I will still try to use spurs when I can remember to get a better reaction out of him when he is fighting against me. He still has some issues with pushing toward home but he is much better now and I can sometimes get him to completely stop magnetizing for the day.

1. a. It is important to be able to accurately take you horses TPR for many reasons. One reason is if your horse is not looking good you can try to find the problem by checking these. There are problems with being unable to read your horses TPR. If you are unable to do this you may be unable to help your horse or determine any problems they might have. b. False. Checking your horse's vital signs when calm and healthy gives you a understanding of their normal signs. 2. a.101 b.28 c.8-12 3. Scooters TPR temperature = 97.4 he has 36 bpm pulse his resperation rate is 18 breaths per minute

Scooter has done very well so far. We went to an English jump show, forced upon me because my mom wanted me to try English on him even though I HATE english as it is too complicated and annoying. Other than some mess-ups on my part with the patterns he did all of the jumps without hesitation. We started with ground poles and then did cross-rails, he magnetized towards "home" a little. The most recent thing we have been working on is spurs. He likes to stick in a direction and ignore my foot so I decided to try spurs. It worked really well although he was a little over reactive at first, but given a little time he quit overreacting.

1. When looking for a proper hay the plants the stage of maturity most preferable for our chosen forage must be younger in maturity as to have the most nutrition for your horse. Good quality hay would visibly have more leaves, as well as contain within the forage less stems as they provide better nutrients and minerals. 2. The weight equation we use to measure our horse's weight with a weight tape is heart girth multiplied by heart girth multiplied by body length divided by three hundred and thirty. My horses heart girth is seventy eight point six, multiplied by itself and divided by three hundred and thirty is equal to one thousand three hundred and fifty and one percent of this is thirteen point five pounds therefore my horse needs thirteen point five pounds of foliage per day. 3. According to the video Body Condition scores run on a scale from one to nine. The six parts of the body to evaluate your horse's Body Conditioning Score are the along the crest of the neck, along the withers, behind the shoulder, along the ribs, down the back or loin and around the tail head. based on this i would give my horse a score of 5 as he has many muscles that need more developing.

My horse scooter has been really nice to train he learns really fast. at fist we had some troubles riding him because he did not like me getting on him. After a bit of desensitization to me jumping on him from both sides and to the saddle being on him. After a few day I was able to ride him without him fussing at me and after four days we went to a show and he did really well. He did not like going left but after some days of flexing before I worked him fixed most of the problem. We are working on loping right now and not pushing to go home.

1 Lunging helps build up muscle in young horses that are not saddle broke yet, but still need to keep in shape and build up a work routine and have the right muscles for when taking on a rider. It can get rid of extra weight and remove unwanted energy or give them extra energy depending on how you do it. Lunging also builds a better relationship between horse and rider making in saddle better. 2 The horse is ready to join up when: 1) Lowing their head 2) Coming closer to you 3) Ear twards you 4) Thinking