Are you wishing you could add some more spring to your horse's trot in the dressage arena?
We've all spent countless hours trying to lift our horses' backs & generate more impulsion by using a certain plane of the ankles while precision-scootching seatbones into a receiving hand & holding the muscles between your 5th & 6th rib at 45 degrees of tension.
Or something like that.
Last weekend, I found a much easier solution.
I present to you Exhibit Echo. As voiced by Echo.
We are trotting around at Trainer Neighbour's, everything is pretty normal. Until...
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| Why HELLO, Interesting Bear-Doggeh, WHAT R U? |
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| BEAR-DOGGEH! I CAN HAZ A PLAY!?!! |
TAA-DAAA! Look at that supension! So uphill! All we needed was an Interesting Dog in the arena!
Of course, Echo didn't stop there. Interesting Dog apparently looked like a super-fun playmate:
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| We do like this, Bear-Doggeh, first u prepare... |
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| ...then u lift feets like this... |
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| ...then u WHEEEEEEEE!!! |
Ah, the steps of riding a Baby Monster. Who is 5 going on 2. But since he is a good Baby Monster, two strides later, he was right back to a normal rhythm. Sometimes the WHEEEE just can't contain itself, but he is so darn cute & completely non-threatening about it, it just makes me giggle.
Interesting Dog (
appropriately named Grizz) never moved. Maybe he's into playmates with fewer sharp edges.
