This is Mooney! Part 2

Ok, a new day, right? The time has come where Mooney has to get someone on his back. He has been a sweetheart most of the time, but is pretty nervous and has a hard time accepting anything new. So we knew it was going to be a challenge to break him in. We didn't know that, when we bought him, but at least we have gotten to know him a lot better since then.

Anyways; Emma put on his tack (we have trained that a lot, so it wasn't a problem), and I prepared him for what to come, by talking to him. I find that it calms horses' nerves, and my own too!, so I keep doing it, even though they of course don't understand what I say to them. But it calmed Emma a little too, which was the most important part of it. I can't have a nervous rider mounting a young horse for the first time, because then it's doomed.

So Emma got to lay on his back, without touching the reins, and I held onto the rope, if he was to move in any way. I didn't want him to experience his rider falling of off him, at his first time with someone on his back.

The strange thing was that his only reaction was looking at her in a weird way, and then just stand like nothing was happening. She of course gave him a small piece of apple, and then they were good friends. But we didn't go any further, because I didn't want him to be spooked but having Emma completely on his back. That's a thing for next time!