PsycoPAT ....... (and I've been calling her FRUITCAKE too) has taken a 
change in attitude since her bucking routine in the round pen that we had a 
few weeks ago.  She's become a real lover ..... VERY good and attentive (like 
she KNOWS I was really upset with her antics).
    I can go in her stall without her turning her back on me - I can lead her 
around with my hand only on her nose and neck (of course we've been slowly 
working up to this and a couple of weeks ago she turned on my and I took the 
whip to her hindend ...... she swung around and hasn't turned on me since).
    I've been VERY firm with her - without being abusive - and it's worked 
..... I still don't trust her but at least she RESPECTS me now!
    But, anyway ...... she's been funny as heck - we had our pond dug deeper 
-- the mud/dirt etc was piled up behind the pond ..... well, when the 
machinery finally quit and we let the horses out of the barn the first place 
PATTI ran to was that mud ...... she HAD to investigate.  She stuck her 
muzzle down in that mud .. then lifted her head to the wind - lips rolled up 
...... and, here she was lookin like a kid who had just eaten dirt - mud all 
over her lips ...... she looked sooooo funny.
    Then she discovered that Buddy and I were pulling weeds in the pasture -- 
she had to come "help" ..... yea, right .......we would pull the 
weeks up and she would scatter them all over ...... then she would try and 
"help" us pull the weeds ...... she was like an innocent little child.
    I've just taken a very firm attitude with her .... maybe there's hope for 
her .... don't know.  I'll just take it slow, easy and firm ..... we'll see.
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