My new best friend
mai 19, 2009 imeenhonestly
Today I’m going to write a little more about the newcoming in my stable. The icelandic pony Fafnir can you read the basics about here!
I think it was late in mars that I went with my good friend Malin to Brattvaag to try Fafnir. The pony that met me was small, fat and had a lack of training hanging over him. He was also cute, very nice and shy! I tried him that day and soon declared him deaf on my helpers. He needed strong helpers to react and it was to obvious that it was hard only to walk slowly forwards with a rider on his back.
After trying several other horses, amongst them a seemingly good pony with a talent for jumping, I asked Fafnir’s owner if I could take him home for a month or two before I decided on signing the contract. His owner felt safe about this and after a very relaxing trip to Egypt, I got a friend of the family to come with me and get him. I felt good about seeing him again, really good. We brought him home, and with Svarten there (our old horse, who has gone away now) it was just lots of fuzz and it was hard to get to know Fafnir. But Svarten left later that week and I was left alone with my mare, Dokka and my new horse, Fafnir.
I started early with separating the two horses I had left, because I didn’t want the Dokka-Svarten-problematics all over again. Both Fafnir and Dokka seems to like the fact that I can let one of them be alone inside and one of them outside, and that is very good for me!
The two beasts I’ve been struggling with these last two years have learnt me so mmuch, and even though Fafnir is not the most handled horse in the market, he is no problem against those trotters of mine. Fafnir has a whole other temperament and there’s nothing bad in him at all. It’s too bad that his owner lost interest for him, because I can see more of the horse every day as he gets more fit and thinner and stronger. Fafnir loves to explore and work and climb. I just know that one day, he will look much better than he does now, and he will be much fitter and we can go for long walks and work hard and trot and gallop without trouble. Or I hope so.
I love my first horse, Dokka. And she loves me. I’ve had her for one year and nine months, and we have been through a lot. But when I see Fafnir, I experience more love and more joy than I do with Dokka. I guess we are just a better match. I’ve always known that Dokka and I is not the perfect match. We’ve bee lucky and we’ve had a good couple of years. But I do think that me and Fafnir have something spesial.
I enjoy riding him, grooming him, teaching him and watching him. He is all love and only needs someone to pour the love over to. I hope he can give it to me, because I think that right now, anyway, we are the perfect match. I want to give him a chance, and I hope that the effort I’m well on my way to put in this project, will mirror back on me again.
So wish me luck next year, when we leave for a new school, a new dorm, a new stable and lots of new opportunities!
(The pictures is of me and Fafnir, taken of either Malin Jenset or Anne Grete Kroken. I have permission to use them.)
Entry Filed under: Picture Post, Think To Talk og tagget: Fafnir, Horse
1. etthjertetoindivider&hellip | mai 22, 2009 ved 10:00 pm
Jeg er sikker på at du vil lære noe av Faf, selv om du kanskje ikke får sjans til å kjøpe ham.