Camdin

These pictures were taken in March this year just after a big handling session where Camdin learned about holding her feet up and having them filed! She was so very good - a little resistant initally until she realised that when she relaxed she got her foot back! :-) Not rocket science at all!!!


She is also very good at being touched, rubbed, and scratched all over - legs, head, inside ears, under belly, between hind legs, under chest, under tail, and learned how to ask politely for a scratch too! It doesn't work to just stand in the humans face - you actually have to move the itchy part of your body to the outstretched hand and it automatically starts scratching! lol
She really is a delight to do everything with ... some days she has tried a little dominance game and turned her back on me as if to kick but found that the human can bite just like another horse, so we haven't tried that again... lol ... she can be bossy at food time but I don't make an issue of it and she seems to have forgotten why she was doing that.

She is curious about everything, and super confident to be alone and away from Maggie for longer periods, but if she finds herself too far away she starts calling out - as does Maggie! I'm not weaning them before the Winter - I figure in the wild they would be together so why not now? I don't actually need them seperated right now, in fact it's quite convenient, and I have noticed the drink times are much shorter anyway, so perhaps Maggie is slowly doing it herself. I must find out where that report is that was done on their behaviour in the wild to see how the mares did it.
I've been playing with a chaff sack over Camdins back to prepare her for wearing a cover, though I'm not sure yet if she will have one on this year or not. I'll wait and see how the weather is and if she appears cold. Meanwhile it can't hurt to prepare her while I can - she will certainly have one in the future!

This is a typical view of her ... relaxed, curious about what I'm up to so better come check me out, really cruisy and laid-back. She is very similar to Medina in nature so I'm using similar strategies - she will try something and I come down hard so she knows that is definitely not acceptable to me, and she accepts the rule willingly without an argument. I like that! :-) She will be a special little horse and I really hope she grows taller than her mother!!!