Kali off loaded part 1

Описание: So who remembers this pretty girl? Probably not a lot of people since I picked her up and never posted her first training videos. 😅 here is why. Kali’s first session did not go spectacularly well. As you will see should you choose to watch the full length of this two part video. This has been trimmed down to an as reasonable length as I could get it while still showing how things went.

I’m honestly surprised she had this much energy after what was close to a 9 hour trailer ride home (with breaks, it would have been 7 hours had we not stopped to rest her as often as we did). I pretty much always do the first session as soon as I get them home. It’s better to get that first touch in the first day, generally it makes things go faster down the line if you start off with an easy trust exercise on day one. And it’s usually very easy to get after the horses have been on the trailer all day. They’re tired and less skittish, so a quick sniff is easy to get and makes the follow up days easier and less stressful for the horse.

This process would normally take 10-30 minutes. But not with Kali. She took closer to an hour and a half. That trailer ride took no energy out of her whatsoever so ever. She was still fired up and ready to go as soon as we had the trailer door open. Getting close to her at all was a challenge. Keeping the pressure low and almost non existent was still almost too much for her.

This video was from the first 40 minutes or so where she finally started to actually look at me. Acknowledging that I even existed outside of panicing in the opposite direction of my general vicinity was the very beginning of progress made. A low bar but a starting point of some kind at least.

To say that this was a slow and very very tedious lesson would be an understatement. Towards the end it was a trial of even my patience. Especially after two days straight in the truck followed immediately by a very long and what felt like a seemingly endless lesson. It’s taken months to have the time and willpower in my soul to even open the video again, just to start the editing process. But I really needed to rip that bandaid off so this session can’t hurt me anymore. 😂 it’s done. I’m free. I can move onto better things now. And save my phone from imploding from lack of space.

And this unreasonably long video? Part 1 of 2. So if you made it to this far, and you’ve watched this absurdly long video. I’m so sorry. This is only HALF of it. 🥲