Found Something Weird

(Woke up to a beautiful day.)

Before I get to the very weird thing I found on Tumbleweed today, I have to say, if you want your horse to be so chill they are borderline boring, do bodywork. Personally, I like boring. 

It is a sunny day, so I decided to do the bodywork away from the barn, closer to the arena.

Since we’ve been concentrating on the emotional, rather than the physical, Tweed has been relaxed from the start. He was no different today.

I got a lot of big releases without doing much. 

When I started his mouth work, he allowed me to massage all around his gums and even up top, under his lip. 

And that is when I felt a hard toothlike thing on his top, front jaw. It didn’t cause him any pain, so I continued to massage the rest of the gums, and then retrieved the camera to take a photo. 

I can’t say how long it has been there. He had his teeth floated last April and they didn’t see it, but they weren’t looking at that spot. He isn’t showing any signs of discomfort with it and his teeth are all strong. 

I sent the photo to my trainer down the road and she said it looks like a wolf tooth and she has seen one other horse that erupted there. She is sending the photo to the specialist who she uses. 

At any rate, that is the OTHER reason it is good to TTouch bodywork. You never know what you might find. 

Arena work. Easy. No emotions being away from the herd. 

And when I released him, he didn’t want me to go.