The WBH may also now be the World’s Smartest Horse.
Yesterday after my ride I had Champagne in the cross ties, waiting for Kathy to come help me put the chemotherapy cream on his lip. I could see he was anxious. His eyelids were crinkled up just like a person’s forehead would be if she were fretting about something.
Kathy said that as long as we were giving him a treatment he doesn’t like we might as well give him his worming as well. Last time he was very resistant to the worm medicine, tossing his head, backing up strenuously, and spitting out the medicine. He has actually broken cross ties by backing up and pulling.
Well, yesterday we showed him the twitch, and he very patiently let me apply the cream. Then Kathy funneled the worm medicine into his mouth with a syringe. He chewed and tongued, but swallowed and didn’t spit anything out.
It’s like he has thought it over, and decided that although he does not like the stinging cream and the worm medicine, he doesn’t like the twitch even more, so oh well, he’ll take the lesser of the evils. No fuss. Decision made, that’s that.
It has all been accomplished without ill feeling on either side, as far as I can tell. I have to remember that . . . Champagne has definite opinions, but if it is clear that the person thinks differently and is willing to insist, he’ll go along just fine. I so love that horse, and he is so teaching me lots of things I need to know to be an effective rider and horse partner.
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