HOT! HOT! HOT!

Whew! I thought summer was in full swing last month. Now, it's nearly too hot even for trail riding and bodywork. I've found late evenings pleasant enough, but I can only get a limited number of things done before dark. I can do some bodywork after dark in the floodlight by the tack room, but the mosquitoes seem to find us delectable. I do believe that when it's this hot… (For those of you who do not live in Idaho, I'm talking mid- to upper-nineties here, day after day.)… it's better to leave the horses pretty much alone. Asking them to do anything in this kind of heat seems unfair and tends to promote their often-prevalent belief that humans are just that. We are sticking to short sessions, light groundwork, bodywork and clicker tricks for fun.

When I was in college, we had a huge pond where could take the horses swimming. Power will stand for long periods of time under the spray of the hose.

As For News

I've posted three new photo pages. Have fun looking at the pictures and reading the captions.

One page shows yet another success story with clicker training and bridling.

Another page is from our June camp.

And the third page shows some pictures I took of some mares and foals down the road from me earlier this spring. The irrigation had flooded a corner of the field and all the foals were investigating the water.

I'm off to the Harry Whitney clinic in Hamilton, Montana on Friday. I'll post pictures from that when I get back.

Meanwhile, Granite has developed a new neck stretch that looks very effective!

Be Safe and Keep Cool!

Nancy Camp
Whole Horse Training