>>>> head so low and so relaxed and calm! awesome Karen!! Janice
She's been very confident and easy throughout this, very eager to please. It's funny that we use adjectives like "confident" in conjunction with horses, but even that word can have different meanings with different horses. For this sort of thing - saddle-training, etc., Runa is very confident. She's very confident about being led out on the trail alone, away from the other horses - no signs of being barn or buddy sour at all. But, put her in the pasture with some older "broads" like Sina, Bjola, and Brunka, and she's very low on the totem pole. For a long time, I thought she'd be a bit jumpy on the trail as Icelandic's go, but I was only judging her reactions in the pasture. I've come to thing of confidence in three different senses, and maybe there are more that I haven't thought of: 1) "stuff", 2) the herd, and 3) humans.. Runa is very confident about "stuff" - the trail obstacles don't faze her in the slightest, nor does it bother her to walk along the road, even if a motorcycle or garbage truck passes by. Runa is very confident about humans - very friendly and sure that no one will hurt her. The only way she shows lack of confidence is around the more mature (and bossy) mares. Apparently the geldings love those tall, leggy redheads - all the geldings love her. :) Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1209 - Release Date: 1/4/2008 12:05 PM
