Hi gang!

At Animal Matters Radio we had alot of fun talking to Janet Burleson (The Guide Horse Foundation) www.guidehorse.org.



And as a horse person I have to say that if I ever did lose my sight I would opt for the mini wonder seeing eye horses as my partner.

Not living in NYC though, they need at least a back yard! and TGHF gives each recipient a companion mini so that the seeing eye mini has a herd friend when not on duty.



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This Sunday - check out - Animal Matters - Service Mini Horse Show by Health&Harmony Nwk on BlogTalkRadio - http://tobtr.com/s/536133



June 21st show at 7pm PST

Call-in Number: (914) 338-0821

Upcoming Show: 6/21/2009 7:00 PM

Host Name: Health + Harmony Nwk

Show Name: Animal Matters - Service Mini Horses For The Blind



Length: 1 hr

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Join co hosts Christianna Capra and Healer Gabriela Castillo (http://web.me.com/gabicast/) and this… Continue

Cali made her first visit to a restaurant today. With permission of the

owners we attended the year end banquet for the local Mini Horse club.



Cali, rode in the SUV. We towed her bathroom. Which is her trailer at this

moment.She is comfortable "going" there. She goes right on cue every time I ask

her. She did need her ramp to get in to the SUV, but she jumped out. Good girl!



She found the door, stopped at the step, found the door handle (this one…

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We had a second session this evening. Working on forward with a pull. I'll take forward anywhere. Click.

Once we get consistent forward, we can begin to train choices of where.

Cali's used to being led. Taken where we want her to go. This is her "first toe in the water" of making decisions. I let her decide where to go. For a little horse, that's confusing. So, it's natural that she would choose to go the places she is used to.



She chose the trailer, the car. When asked…

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Cali is settling in well. She's was a little nervous at first and she and my old mare scared each other.



We had a first lesson: Putting on the Dog Harness I got her. I'd opened the large dog harness as large as it would go.

Sigh... our perceptions are so weird. The first thing I had to do was to make it smaller at every angle. She was patient even though the wind was howling.



Next, I let her take me where she wanted to go with a little tug on the harness. She…

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