Hi Julie ! Hi laurel !

Oh, I feel with you and Grace,

My friend Agnes is back in the States and she will buy the Cat DVDs.

Doris
bellum gerant alii , tu felix Austria nube !


--- En date de : Mar 2.6.09, Laurel Gordon <laurel.i.gordon@...> a écrit :

> De: Laurel Gordon <laurel.i.gordon@...>
> Objet: [zenhorsemanship] Background on Gracie
> À: zenhorsemanship@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mardi 2 Juin 2009, 5h17
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>    Julie Conway said I could post what she wrote as
> background on her Gracie, which may make my previously
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> >>She came to me as Cherokee.  I changed her name to
> Grace because I thought that someday she would be a horse
> that anyone could ride and have fun with.
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> She can be aggressive.  She has bitten people in the past,
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> only threatens to bite now.  She is aggressive with
> horses currently (lots of resource guarding).
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> An example of not liking to be touched:  my barefoot
> trimmer cannot rest her hand or touch Grace on any other
> part of her body when she is trimming or Grace will threaten
> to bite or kick.  Grace has difficulty in holding her front
> legs up for more than one minute.  She will groan and then
> rear up to avoid hurting the trimmer.   She threatened our
> guy that feeds by kicking at him (she did not connect) and
> threatened to bite (I was not there to see what pre-empted
> the attack).  When I was showing a friend of mine where I
> thought Grace was hurting, I pointed to her thorax, and
> Grace reacted by biting me (actually it was just a pinch -
> she is extremely accurate).
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>  I have had the massage therapist out three times and
> Grace was not reactive.
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> had the chiropractor out three times and the last time he
> had tried to treat her spine, she exploded in place (meaning
> a rear with a double-barrel kick). This chiropractor uses
> cold laser therapy which helps to heal any inflammation.
> Once he was able to treat her, the reactions stopped. 
> However, the treatments do not seem to last very long as she
> is untouchable again other than her forehead.    I brushed
> her to do some shedding and she allowed it on her left side
> but protected her right side. The massage therapist and
> chiropractor both had said she was locked up in her poll and
> C4.  Other than that they found no other issues.  I have a
> suspicion about needing to have her liver cleansed as she is
> extremely sensitive to chemicals or pesticides.
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> Clicker training:  I have not worked with her in the past
> 6 months other than doing head down and backing Previously,
> she was doing some beautiful  at liberty work at the trot
> with her head down.  She fully engages her HQ
> and looks like she is dancing.  She will offer this
> behavior if there are no other distractions.
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> I held a clicker training for kids and we all visited
> Grace.  I thought that she might want to engage and a few
> of the kids were able to pet her shoulder, but then she ran
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> Grace is showing me. There is a lot of past history, but
> I'm guessing that won't help us much since she's
> been at our place for approximately 9 months.
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