Good days, bad days...

Allie you called this one.  You said don't expect K to be the same horse today as he was yesterday.  He wasn't.  I still didn't make a big deal out of the mouthy thing, and he was mouthy extreme today, but he had an almost mean attutude today.  Not all the time, just when I made demands of him.  On the ground, he would grab the lead and not want to move forward and when asked to, he'd pin his ears and get bowed up as he "walked" forward.  When I asked him to move out while on his back, at first he did then he decided he wanted to quit and when I wouldn't let him, he hopped up.  I quickly pulled his head around and made him walk in circles and then spurred
him out of it.  Still, while in the english saddle, I felt vulnerable and he felt unwilling.  I changed tack.
I went from the solid bit & english saddle to the snaffle/martingale & west. saddle.  He only "thought" he was through when I tied him up! 

I think in this picture, you can see that he has his lead rope in his mouth while he has a bit in there too!  I'm seriously going to look up in my vet book to see if he's teething.  Anyway, I felt more secure and he didn't try to pull much more with me and we had a good ride after a while.  I cantered more today than the last 3 x's I've ridden.  They felt good.  Afterwards, I just moved him off my legs & backed, etc.

To cool off, I tried some shwmnshp.  I used my old broken leather shank with the chain under his chin.  He was horrible.  Constantly trying to grab whatever was in my hand or close to his mouth.  By close, I mean the correct position for my hand according to me; fairgame for Kramer.  Anyway, did some set-ups, backs and pivots and quit before my head exploaded.  Actually, I stayed calm & tried not to let my frustration show(that's why my head came close to exploading!)
Last pics are of the poor, mistreated Kramer right before I headed home.

Can't wait to take him to "school" in Conroe!