[Steamturtle]

 Owner       >>> corrosive_limes
 Name                >>> Adurna
 Gender         >>> Female
 Adoption Price         >>> N/A
 Training         >>> {Fully Trained}
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  . Stubborn
  . Distracted by shiny, glittery, or glowing objects
  . Proper

 Offspring;
 None

 [Discipline >>>>> ]
 [Shows Entered > R: W: E:]
 [Shows Won >>>> R: W: E:]

 [Ej > ] [Ep > ]
 [Eh > ] [Ws > ]
 [Wp > ] [Wt > ]
 [Rf > ] [Rs > ]

[corrosive_limes]

. : - Adurna - : .

. : Training : .

.: First Touch :.

Adurna - First Touch [drawn by me]

.: First Saddle :.
I had decided it was time for Adurna's First Saddle. Knowing how she tended to wander, and the fact that she didn't listen, I had kept her in her stall overnight. She was grouchy, but we could work with that.

Adurna had her head slung over the door of her stall, glaring reproachfully at me. When she noticed what I was carrying, her expression became slightly curious. Mostly though I think it was the distraction of shiny things. While I was letting her get used to the different tack, she mostly nibbled at the metal parts a lot. I'll probably need to paint it later to avoid distractions.

After she was familiar with the tack, I began tacking her up. I planned to move straight into First Ride and wrap up her training. Adurna was a little uncomfortable with the bit, but I coaxed her into accepting it with some oats. Once she was tacked up, I opened the rear stall door and led Adurna out into the sunlight.

.: First Ride :.
Once outside, I led Adurna up to the mounting block. Carefully, I leaned over her so she was supporting most of my weight. She stiffened and her ears flattened, but she had seen Brisingr and I do this and was determined to live up to the other mare's standard.

After I had mounted, I leaned forward and clucked my tongue. Adurna took a step forward after a moment, and I immediately rewarded her. We repeated this process a few times until Adurna had made the had learned what was expected of her.

We had a few false starts, but slowly we made progress around the pasture. Partially because Adurna was still learning, but also because Brisingr and the gelding kept wandering over to see what was going on. The gelding kept running up and down in front of Adurna, flicking his tail and neighing to distract the mare.

Brisingr kept trying to get Adurna to follow her, and it took a while to get her to understand that she had to stop it. Even after they finally stopped pestering us, they still trailed us and distracted Adurna, who was getting impatient with me and flicking her ears at me.

Once we had finally finished, I wearily dismounted and untacked Adurna, turning her out into the pasture with Brisingr and the new gelding, who immediately began to trot around, showing off for the ladies.

After putting the tack away, I returned to watch them. Adurna was frolicking in the field with the blue gelding, pleased the serious business was over, not that I could blame her. Smiling, I tried to come up with names for the gelding

.: Additional Training :.


Brisingr and Adurna on my cover for a competition [drawn by me]

.: Other Art :.
N/A

[corrosive_limes]

Adurna's First Touch is done :3

[Steamturtle]

Apologies, I did not see that ^^" She is now up-to-date and I will be watching your Neravontii competition page

[corrosive_limes]

All her training is complete and she has a bonus of +1 c: