by Kaia*Scarlet » Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:03 am
Name: Grace
Gender: Mare
Halter Color: a green blue color with white lace. ■ but brighter and more green Ish
.A strange girl came up to me, I wasn't sure what to think... she didn't seem afraid of me like the previous people. She came up to the large wooden box I was in, no a 'Stall' that's what I heard her call it. as I timidly took steps back she did the same, this entreaged me so I took a step forwards and not to my surprise she copied. What was she doing? then she did something unexpected she asked me if I liked the name Grace. I wasn't sure what this meant but I liked the sound of it. In response I perked my ears up, Gra.. Gra.. Grace? I thought it sounded like Grass..but I liked it! I walked up to her and she walked to me... She stared straight into my eyes lovingly "Hello Grace my names Scarlet' then she reached into my pocket and grabbed a red thing it was round and smelled wonderful she put it out to me on her hand and scratched a side of it and it happened to smell better after that. I causushly gnawed on it not breaking the skin but finally got a taste of it Scarlet called it an "Apple" and said it was food so I did what any horse would do eat it. THIS was my new favorite, though I still didn't trust this Scarlet....
I started getting accustomed to this stall twice a day she would bring me some dried green stuff she called 'Hay" and buckets of grass and some seeds she called "Grain" this I liked expeshualy the occasional 'apples' the stall was always clean the hay smelled good the Scarlet was friendly. Although this was no rolling hills, I happened to like my new home. I always see a grey horse in the distance but I never met him because he was in the pasture and I was in the stall.... I wondered when I could go into the place Scarlet called a pasture.. Maybe soon? I hoped so.
In the next few days Scarlet would come into my stall and present me a green,blue thing with lace that was shaped like my face that appeared to fit over my ears, But unlike the people that brought me here she didn't force me to have it on, Instead Scarlet ASKED if I would like to try it on. She called this pretty thing a "Halter" everyday she would offer me to stick my nose in the halter and try it on, I was always weary about this but on the third day I decided to trust her about it and put it on. It was surprisingly conferrable and grew to like it. It made my colors stand out more. Then she started attaching a long rope to this halter This I wasn't so sure about but I realized there was no harm.... it started to not bother me at all! Then Scarlet lead me out into the pasture with the halter and rope and took it off. Then she pointed at Benny, The fleabitten grey Arabian, who I saw a wile ago.
Wile out in the pasture this horse benny welcomed me, He seemed friendly and overall a little hyper, but just blabbed on and on about how nice Scarlet witch got annoying because I didn't know her very well. but aside from that we just talked and ate the lovely grass and clovers. He told me about riding and what it was and the different things. This horse named benny was spirited and could keep up with her, she was very impressed with him . there was many horses she new and met but... He was different.. she decided Benny was her new best friend! Grace liked this idea and told him. To her he seemed astonished and surprised, but happy.... she now was looking forward to getting to know scarlet better... I mean with all benny said about her...
Scarlet later came and asked to slip my halter on, I gladly accepted the beautiful halter then she lead me into the stables like she usually did and did something strange she ran her hand down my leg in attempt in picking up my hoof... I naturally spooked but calmed down with a nice stroke of her hand. and she tried again this time I knew she meant no harm, and I picked it up for her. then she used a metal object with a brush to pick the dirt and small stoned out of my hoof, she repeated this on all four, this was nice knowing that I could trust her like this.... She was just like Benny said.. huh... she rubbed my face threw a blanket over my back, and a smaller one too. this became almost automatic and didn't bother me at all. And introduced me to a thing she called a "Hacklemore" witch was like a halter but had a softer nose piece and something going under my forlock, with long leather ropes connected to loops by the nose piece and leaded me around,, and for some reason I felt like we were closer... and I like her I think I will like my life here<3
After a week of doing the same and more trust exercises, or that's what she called them, she brought out a big leather odd shaped thing, Scarlet called it a 'English saddle' I believe and stated it goes on top of the saddle pad, and she let me sniff it and such then she tried swinging it onto my back, instinctively I jumped... This thing very much frightened me on my back and weighed quite a bit. In response to my spook she took it off and held it again and slowly approached me with it again and let me sniff it like before, rubbed the straps on my cheek to show me it meant no harm.... which I liked a lot and gave me a confidence boost about the thing. Ohhh it hit me this must be the thing Benny was talking about! and she lightly put it on my back again so I turned around and looked at it, it was fine.. didn't hurt, looked ok.. I decided it was fine. Scarlet took it off me and put it back on a gazillion more times until I didn't even note that it was even there or what she was doing. after a span of a couple days doing the normal exercises putting the blanket on and the saddle she added something I believe it was the Girth? it connected to the straps and went around a bit behind my front legs to hold the saddle on. it was tight and uncomfortable I didn't care for it much at all. but I eventually got used to it. well at least the saddle didn't shift a lot anymore that was a plus.... I was wondering what this had to do with anything maybe I would find out soon!
One day she did the normal, brushed me, did my hooves, saddle blanket, half pad, saddle, Girth... and she leaded me out into a pen that was a circle shape that was a fair size, And put a long rope instead of a short one on my halter. we did this thing she called lunging were she holds my lead rope and asks me to walk in the circle or trot even sometimes canter, then when she thought I did good she would slightly tug on my lead and I would slow down walk a few steps towards her and stop, if I didn't stop she would make me back up. If I did stop though she would put her hand out for me to come to her and she had an occasional small carrot in her hand. Then we did something Scarlet called the squeeze game, which I found out was no game. she would lead me in and out of tight spaces and threw different gates and trees, and congratulate me each time. until she could lead me threw a space just barely big enough for me and It didn't bother me at all. the other thing we did was she had me go over logs small jumps, poles and such just for practice, witch I already new from the wild. so she said I did extravagantly well which I thought was funny. We did more than this but this is what I feel like saying. Scarlet called all the things we did Ground work.
After I could do all these past things with out any trouble she did some ground work with me like usual with all my gear and the hacklemore on then she walked me up to a block and Scarlet stood on the block and put her foot in the part of the saddle she called a stirrup. and just stood there in the stirrup. which naturally spooked me because at this point she was literally on my back or close to it. I trotted away and she jumped down and asked me to come back, which I did and was welcomed with a small carrot and a sorry. but after a bit she tried again this time it didn't bother me much because now I remembered benny telling me about this. she asked me to walk and I obeyed and she told be over and over what a good girl I was. this motivated me, I loved it when she praised me. I got used to her being there and she understood that so she swung her other leg into the other stirrup and this didn't surprise me i've watched her ride benny I was a pro at this from the start thanks to my pal. she squeezed lightly to ask me to go faster or clicked to ask the same thing and pulled back on the leather straps connected to my hacklemore for me to slow down or stop and or back up If I was already stopped.
Now we go everywhere together Scarlet, Benny and myself. if me and benny cant go she doesn't either, she takes us to shows and does dressage shows with me, which kind of looks like a dance, I think its cool. we go on trail rides and even expanded the pasture for me and benny! Currently Scarlet is showing me some jumping using benny as an example and slowly doing some with me, I am currently conferrable with two feet. but slowly getting better. The crazy thing is I enjoy being here more than out were I grew up for my first years... I don't really miss it... When I was a foal I heard how having an owner was SOOOO terrible but... maybe everyone isn't as great as scarlet... I don't know.. But I love my life here and I hope I can meet more horses and more people<3
I edited her name and halter that's why I edited ♡♡
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Kaia*Scarlet on Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:53 pm, edited 5 times in total.