{"id":500,"date":"2009-09-17T22:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/catching-up-91609\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:49:14","slug":"catching-up-91609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/catching-up-91609\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up 9\/16\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It has been awhile since I have written about what is going on here at Rattlebridge.&nbsp; Well, let&#8217;s start with our rescue horses.&nbsp; Shotzi is biting and I mean biting hard. She got my nephew in his arm but good.&nbsp; So I, the expert, went up yesterday after having been away for a couple of weeks on and off judging (saving this for the next post).&nbsp; Mind you Shotzi and Buttercup just returned to the farm after having been off to boot camp for a month ensuring that they are fine tuned as my nephew and niece were going to start riding.&nbsp; I was going to teach Annie to ride on Shotzi and probably Melissa also. Melissa is here to attend Ohio Wesleyan University; she lives in the dorm but is here quite a bit playing with puppies. Melissa has not ridden since the last time I put her on a horse when she was twelve.&nbsp; After she fell off, she swore off horses forever but has been reconsidering.&nbsp; So I began saddling Shotzi up and she promptly tried to eat me.&nbsp; She is lucky that I didn&#8217;t eat her.&nbsp; Every time I began to adjust the saddle, she flattened her ears,whipped her head around and tried to nail me.&nbsp; I lunged her with no problem and unsaddled her after giving her such an evil eye that she behaved.&nbsp; So now we have a problem.&nbsp; We need a companion for Buttercup but we also need a safe horse for all concerned. Nothing is ever easy.&nbsp; Now as to my dream horse,Stanley:&nbsp; Stanley has been lulling us into a sense of trusting his overall demeanor, kind eye and acceptance of training.&nbsp; Well, he has been lying in wait.&nbsp; With his confidence being built by his training, he has begun to assert himself but good.&nbsp; He has tried to run me over, our wonderful trainer over, and head butted her so badly she wound up in urgent care.&nbsp; So since the rescue organization from where we got these two horses, no fault of theirs is full, we are in, as usual, another dilemma.&nbsp; Perhaps my dream of riding again is not the great idea I thought it was. Oh, well, until next time.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been awhile since I have written about what is going on here at Rattlebridge.&nbsp; Well, let&#8217;s start with our rescue horses.&nbsp; Shotzi is biting and I mean biting hard. She got my nephew in his arm but good.&nbsp; So I, the expert, went up yesterday after having been away for a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}