{"id":4670,"date":"2014-07-23T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2019-04-20T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:10:33","slug":"lili-convinces-zarb-floating-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/lili-convinces-zarb-floating-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun.<\/p>\n<p>Hi my name is Lili Foster and this is a story about floating Zarb ,my gray Arab, who was a problem float loader.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve had Zarb for 19 months. When I got him he would walk right on the float with no problem, but then we hired a single float and it went down hill from there. It took us 3 hours just to get him in!<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t float him for about a year because I didn\u2019t have my own float and I broke my arm falling off Zarb .<br \/>\nThen Cynthia came and we desensitized him to tarps, low tree branches and that type of thing.<\/p>\n<p>We made a simulated float out of hay bales and when Zarb was ok going in that we started with some ground games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img title=\"Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun. - Natural Horse World\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4671\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Simulatedfloat.jpg\" alt=\"Simulatedfloat\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Simulatedfloat.jpg 320w, https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Simulatedfloat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/> <em>Simulated float<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A simulated float helped Zarb regain confidence.<\/p>\n<p>We did the Parelli yo-yo game, the circling game and the driving game for me to earn his respect. I put a hay net on the float ramp and let him eat, then I put the middle divider right across and I did the games on and near the float.<br \/>\nNext I did a driving game on to the float a couple of times before I put his feed in the float<\/p>\n<p>We put him in the float and wriggled the tail gate and he wasn\u2019t fazed by that so we rhythmically closed the door three times.<br \/>\nZarb wasn\u2019t worried by that either, so then we fed him in the float with the door closed twice and once he had finished his feed I backed him out.<br \/>\nAfter he came off the float I did the circling game and loaded him two more times.<\/p>\n<p>The next night I fed him in the float and he was fine so we took him out for a drive for about five minutes. When we got back I fed him in the I fed Zarb in the float two more times without going anywhere because when we took him for the drive he got a bit sweaty which meant he wasn\u2019t really comfortable yet.<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun. - Natural Horse World\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4672\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Zarbonfloat.jpg\" alt=\"Zarbonfloat\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Zarbonfloat.jpg 320w, https:\/\/naturalhorseworld.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Zarbonfloat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zarb enjoys his feed on the float so it becomes a comfort zone for him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then we took him for a short drive in the float, fed him in the float when we got back and he was fine with that.<\/p>\n<p>So then we fed him in the float two more times without going anywhere just to keep it a comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>I took him for a drive for 15 minutes to a local horse beach and left him in the float for 5 minutes before unloading him.<br \/>\nI let him walk around, do the 7 games and then I took him back home fed him in the float unloaded him and put him back in the float two more times.<br \/>\nI took Zarb to the beach again for a ride and he was great with the beach but he was such a sook in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun. Hi my name is Lili Foster and this is a story about floating Zarb ,my gray Arab, who was a problem float loader. I\u2019ve had Zarb for 19 months. When I got him he would walk right on the float with no problem, 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