Has been busy. Real busy. Busy as in waking up at about 7:00 in the morning, and walking groggily into the lounge only to have a gigantic puppy come tumbling straight at you, and most of the house awake and running around the hall way and kitchen shrieking (Yes, that's you Anika and Noah -.-). It's been good though, for many reasons- some of which I shall state here.
First off, Willow had another litter, sired by Mr Chubby (AKA, Casa De Quimera Jasper). There were, and still are, three in this litter. One Blue Otter doe, a Blue Otter buck, and a Smoke Pearl Marten buck. I'm just hoping the Blue Otter buck will take after his sire, as I am looking for a replacement buck at the moment (Chubby has, uh, issues).
Secondly, it was my birthday on Saturday. 14 this year- so that makes three years of blog writing !
Thirdly, me and a friend (who is also horse mad and has her own pony :P) did lots of work with Briar and Peanut over the weekend. We gave Peanut a bath (soaked and trimmed his tail, soap and everything). Lets just say he was not very impressed by the time the hose came out to wash the soap of his horsey hair.Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures, but I can tell you he now has a proper pony tail that isn't full of yellow dreadlocks!
Me and Hannah (my friend) also did some in hand, and riding work with Briar. We lunged her and did some leading practise etc of the first day, then on the second day (Sunday), we tacked her up to do some riding. Now Briar hadn't been ridden for a good 2-3 weeks due to bad weather and everything, so I was very impressed with how good she was. We just rode her bare back for the first maybe 15 minutes, then put the saddle on. I am now happy to say that I have jumped Briar up to about 60 cm (I know I know, sounds tiny. It's allot bigger then that though, when you're on a horse that jumps really well), without any falls
Fourth, and very exciting is the fact that Otto has now started puppy training school! He went to his first session yesterday, and I must say he was definately top of the class when it came to all the obedience things we were doing. No surprise really though, seeing as the rest of the puppies there were a naughty Jack Russel, a timid LabxStaffy, and another chilled flop-on-the-ground type LabxStaffy. It was heaps of fun though, I can't wait 'till next week :)
