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Kaaring Package | Moose | First Training

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K A A R I N G


Name:// 2557 Forvendir
Kaaring Aquired:// Full Body w/ Background (+2), Training w/ Handler (+1), Animation (+2/4), Story - 1246 Words (+2) - Total: +7/9
Reasoning:// Partial payment for Lux

I love drawing aspen trees a little bit too much, even in this simplistic style. I hope you like it, NorthEast-Stables. And tell me how you would like me to fill in the rest of the payment. :)



"Your new roles for the time being are to take care of these visiting Nordanners, and train them, or show them, however their owner likes." Ange said, twirling around in her desk chair, poking a fat ferret's belly in her lap as she did so, clearly taking this entire thing VERY seriously. "Essentially, you are also in their employ, so treat them as you would me." The corners of her lips curled into a little smile as she slowed and plopped the champagne ferret on the ground, allowing him to waddle away. Gianni blinked a few times, and Magdalena sighed exasperatedly. "Is that all?" She finally asked carefully, wheeling toward the door, lifting another ferret with the toe of her boot and scooting him away. "Yes, that's it for now. Oh, and Gianni, your first project is here." "What?!"

Minutes later, Gianni had Forvendir, lovingly known as 'Moose' to his owner, in his grasp. The horse seemed uncertain about how this halter thing worked, so Gianni essentially dragged the antlered equine toward the barn, as he set his hooves in the woodchips and resisted. Though he didn't make a single noise, he certainly caused a scene and some of the other horses gathered around to catch sight of this spectacle. "Could you…just…participate." Gianni muttered, finally getting him into the barn.

Not a good idea. Moose's eyes widened so that the whites of them were plain to see, and his nostrils flared, revealing their sensitive pink insides. Moments away from a full blown freak out, Gianni flung open the doors again and led him outside, where his struggle was only caused by simply not wanting to. "Great." He whispered to himself. "Where am I going to put you then?" He looked at the pens, and he could see that some of the more aggressive stallions were already at the fence, ready and willing to take a jab at this newcomer. Moose didn't seem willing to back down either, as Gianni had to recruit Eva to help drag him away from Noctua before blood started flowing. "This horse hasn't seen any training I would guess." Gianni said to Eva as they finally loosed him in one of the training pens, where he raced around, kicking sand everywhere.

Eventually he settled down slightly and began pacing around the pen, pawing at the sand, investigating the jumps as if they were some alien creature. The tarp, however, was horrifying. Gianni sat on the fence and watched him slowly approach the tarp as if it had claws ready to grasp at his legs, and then the infamous Colorado wind would pick up and the thing would spring to life, causing Moose to nearly jump out of his skin. Again and again this happened, the slow fearful approach, the gust of wind, the inevitable panic and scurry. Rinse and repeat. Eventually Gianni called over some of his fellow coworkers to come watch the spectacle. "Must have some sort of deer brain in that head." Tomas said with a chuckle, walking away.

The training pen became Moose's home while he was at Whispering Pines, as it was clear he would disrupt the lives of the stallions too much, and they didn't want any accidental babies with any of the mares, which would have to be euthanized upon birth. Gianni went out to him and started with the basics of ground manners, as well as desensitization, letting him meet all the 'scary' things that there were to see. Except for the tarp. Though Moose was housed with that hideous creature, it was clear that the horse hadn't made friends with it over night, and had no intentions of it any time soon. He averted his eyes and got a bit stiffer around new and scary things, such as slowly opening umbrellas, but dashed away as quickly as possible as soon as the wind started shuffling the tarp in his direction. As Gianni had no clear goal with the horse, just to get him manageable since he was notorious at North East Stables for being an escape artist, and an inciter of havoc amongst the other Fawn Nordanners, he decided that maybe learning that the tarp wouldn't eat him might not be such a bad idea for Moose.

Over the course of several days, Gianni would start the sessions off easy, with items that Moose barely batted an eyelash at, and with commands that he had begun to grasp, and then eventually he would grab the tarp, and move it a bit closer to Moose. The horse wasn't tied up, so he quickly dodged away to the opposite side of the arena when the tarp came near, but eventually, he started backing away less and less. Eventually, Gianni got Moose to touch the evil tarp with a hoof, very tentatively, before the horse dashed away. Progress was made, but not ENOUGH. Gianni wanted this horse and this tarp to have a bond.

Finally, Gianni got the idea of letting another horse show Moose how the tarp worked. Dianae, Whispering Pines' single Nordanner, didn't mind the tarp at all, having been trained with it around for most of her young life. She was also very calm and submissive, so Gianni figured that perhaps Moose could just lay down the law quickly and then be done with it so they could continue. Moose and Dianae touched noses and Dianae whickered at him, which caused no response from the stoic Fawn Nordanner, and thus turned her attention back to Gianni. Moose watched on, anxiety clear in his stance, as Dianae walked over the tarp, let it be draped over her back, and rubbed along her ears and face. "You can get there too." Gianni said, calling Moose over (which the horse ignored entirely). So Gianni decided to bring Dianae and the tarp to him. Indeed, it seemed that this show worked, as Moose finally let the tarp touch his nose, if only for a second.

So it went on like this, with Dianae, Gianni and The Tarp, all ganged up on Moose. Moose seemed to be getting irritated with the repetition, but it was clear that if a wild tarp did pounce on him one day, Moose would not handle it to Gianni's satisfaction. More time was needed.

But time was not on their side. North East Stables called for his return, hoping that he had been tamed at least somewhat, and Gianni explained to them the process that they had gone under. He had let Moose cool down for a few days, so he wasn't sure what to expect when he went out to get the horse ready to be trailered and shipped back home. This certainly wasn't it.

As Gianni got into the training pen and approached Moose, the horse grabbed up the tarp in his mouth, as if out of defiance. 'Look, see, I'm not afraid' it would seem he was saying. 'Just don't shove this thing in my face anymore.' Gianni watched as the horse flapped it around, pawing at it, drooling on it, and couldn't help but sigh. It would seem he had succeeded in warming Moose up to the tarp, but this wasn't exactly what he had in mind. North East Stables would be apparently adding this tattered thing to their own collection, he decided as he carefully rolled it up and put it in the trailer beside Moose, before watching the Nordanner's spotty rump bounce down the gravel road, towards home.




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I have stared at this for 4 days and even still I can't get enough of it! I 100% am confident that it will count as 9 kaaring, so if you'd like to do that last 1 point as a pagedoll chibi of my stallion Asgard, I will send Lux right over to you!!!

Oh gosh that sass. THAT SASS :icongrumpy-catplz: