Baker's final blog
I think I am finally ready to type up Baker’s last blog entry. It’s pouring rain today, so that seems like a fitting time to write about our last night together. It was a Friday afternoon. I’ll remember the date forever, since it was his 8 month birthday – December 15 th . I had brought him in to the barn to get him cleaned up so that I could get a picture of him to share how tall he was and how much he weighed at 8 months. When I went to get him out of the field, he had been a little pushy – very much out of character for him, lately. I took him into the round pen to work on some submission exercises – asking him to work (lightly, since he was still quite young), and asking him to move away from me, until he showed signs of submission – head down, licking and chewing. Most horses take anywhere from 10-30 minutes, if they know what they are doing, to give those signs, but since it was Baker, who was born submissive, he only had to work about 5 minutes. I brought him i