It has officially been 1 full week since the arrival of our newest family member, Gypsy.

Formerly known as “Alpine” this little filly came from the hills of Tonasket WA, from a herd known as “9 Wild Horses.” Read more about this story on Gypsy’s gallery page. She is estimated to be around a year and half old, and stands at an estimated 14.2 hands high.

Every week I will be posting about our progress in training. The wonderful people that help the “9 Wild horses” crew almost made socializing too easy for me! I can already touch Gypsy all over, and have been able to pick up her front two hooves a couple times. She is friendly towards people, and has never offered to kick or bite (unless you’re a fly…she HATES flies!).

This week, I didn’t want to introduce too many new things while she was settling in. So far she has learned that water buckets are fun to play with (you’ll notice in the pictures below, a clever solution for a clever horse! Thanks to my fiancée Chris for thinking up that one!), how to eat hay from a slow feeder, what a curry comb is and what hot wire is. She has been very polite in all of our dealings except can be a little pushy when it comes to grain. We will work on that.

This week (8/1/2021 - 8/8/2021) we will be learning about fly spray, a thermometer, and introducing the halter. I will go only as fast as Gypsy wants. I am patient and want to make sure she is comfortable. Enjoy the video of this weeks progress! (A portion of the video is sped up, otherwise it would have been 5 minutes of me brushing and that’s a little boring.)