2 days old and Eclipse goes outside his field for the first time

Eclipse is now 2 days old. Today i spent almost all day just hanging out with him. He likes having his ears stroked, it kind of makes him sleepy. I then came in and very carefully watched some more Smart Seven footage from the Parelli Savvy Club Vault. and then went out to try and help Eclipse learn the appropriate response to pressure and to follow me and my suggestions.

I have an old halter that the dogs chewed so I undid this and it now resembles an 11ft horsemans string, that I draped over Eclipse’s body as if it were a saddle/ girth and then forwards through the middle of his front legs. Then I slowly moved around to one side so I was off centre and by doing as close as I could to what Pat said on the Smart Seven DVD by releasing when his nose went over the line with in no time at all Eclipse was licking chewing and following me!! I never realised it could be so easy to teach a foal to lead and all with out a halter. Eclipsed also showed me he knew how to respond to my suggestion to move forwards, backwards and his front end around, when I gently “pushed” him around like his mother would. This Natural horsemanship really does seem to be what the horses already naturally know as he just learns everything so fast.

After the fun of that we had more sleep and this afternoon when I came out I let Eclipse and Mel out of there field in to our “garden” / living area. It’s not really much of a garden but that’s only because I let the horses out into it so much but it does have cars parked here and washing lines and rubbish bins, all sorts of places to cause mischief and Eclipse bravely explored every inch of it.

* This is the link to the parelli Savvy club footage i watched prior to todays play session. http://www.parellisavvyclub.com/watchMedia.faces?id=39