I filed my first horses today! =DD
I'm all sorts of happy and gleeful, it's really hard and tiring and my back is killing me and I think my knees might wanna have a word with me tomorrow but weee! It was awesome!
After being stood up by the first client (hurhur) we ended up at this small racing stables to do a few horses. I was first up to have a go and having only had some minor practice on a dead horse up until now I was all "D8 I'm gonna hurt him!"
But he was all sorts of gorgeous and stood perfectly still for me, he was really patient and an excellent study for me. Didn't need a lot of work done, just the medial edge of the 3 arcade and the caudal edge of the 2 arcade taken off and the corners of the mandible 06s </jargon>.
... Sorry. I have to practice my jargon or Peter will have a scowl at me.
Anyway! I figured I'd only get to do the one horse and Amy and Andrew did one too and then they brought out this awesome palomino quarter horse stallion (at a racing stables mind you) and I got to treat him! *glee* He had terrible serrations and hooks on the maxillary 06s, so needed quite a lot of work done. He was good too, a bit more of a headtosser than the first so I got smacked to and fro a bit but it was all good.
But with so much filing I got tired real quick of course, and Peter (Dentist guy) finished it all of (as with the first horse) .
I'm still exited though because yeah... okay, I'm awkward and half the time don't know where I'm filing or am just plain lost in the mouth, I did manage to at least get most of the arcades done, at trust me when I say that's a lot harder than it seems. Because of the technique that's involved and how to hold the horse' head and handel the files, especially the off-side (right side) of the horse for me because I'm left handed is really awkward and hard to reach but I managed to at leat get the files onto all the arcades and did some filing though the near-side (left side_ is easier than the off-side...
Still pretty proud of myself though, I now just need a lot of practice and work but I can do the file-y bits of this course! =D
Totally worth the early (6:30am) start!
Now to study! Because apparently we have a test on the 14th or so... theory exam. And for those wanting to know... I don't suck as much as I feared. I know as much as the other students, and we all fail at anatomy and yeah... no ass-making out of myself.
<3 for all the kind words though! You guys all rock my socks off! <3
I'm all sorts of happy and gleeful, it's really hard and tiring and my back is killing me and I think my knees might wanna have a word with me tomorrow but weee! It was awesome!
After being stood up by the first client (hurhur) we ended up at this small racing stables to do a few horses. I was first up to have a go and having only had some minor practice on a dead horse up until now I was all "D8 I'm gonna hurt him!"
But he was all sorts of gorgeous and stood perfectly still for me, he was really patient and an excellent study for me. Didn't need a lot of work done, just the medial edge of the 3 arcade and the caudal edge of the 2 arcade taken off and the corners of the mandible 06s </jargon>.
... Sorry. I have to practice my jargon or Peter will have a scowl at me.
Anyway! I figured I'd only get to do the one horse and Amy and Andrew did one too and then they brought out this awesome palomino quarter horse stallion (at a racing stables mind you) and I got to treat him! *glee* He had terrible serrations and hooks on the maxillary 06s, so needed quite a lot of work done. He was good too, a bit more of a headtosser than the first so I got smacked to and fro a bit but it was all good.
But with so much filing I got tired real quick of course, and Peter (Dentist guy) finished it all of (as with the first horse) .
I'm still exited though because yeah... okay, I'm awkward and half the time don't know where I'm filing or am just plain lost in the mouth, I did manage to at least get most of the arcades done, at trust me when I say that's a lot harder than it seems. Because of the technique that's involved and how to hold the horse' head and handel the files, especially the off-side (right side) of the horse for me because I'm left handed is really awkward and hard to reach but I managed to at leat get the files onto all the arcades and did some filing though the near-side (left side_ is easier than the off-side...
Still pretty proud of myself though, I now just need a lot of practice and work but I can do the file-y bits of this course! =D
Totally worth the early (6:30am) start!
Now to study! Because apparently we have a test on the 14th or so... theory exam. And for those wanting to know... I don't suck as much as I feared. I know as much as the other students, and we all fail at anatomy and yeah... no ass-making out of myself.
<3 for all the kind words though! You guys all rock my socks off! <3
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