{"id":93,"date":"2025-06-29T23:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2025-08-02T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:55:18","slug":"jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>We started working with Jazz, a 2022 Arabian stud colt, during his 1 year old year. Jazz had no behavior problems, he was just a clean slate with a curious owner. With clicker training we have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>taught him to lead safely, allow hoof handling, accept saddle pad and girth, line up at a mounting block, along with encouraging natural exploration with balls and pool noodles and any number of props. Jazz likes to play catch, for one thing (video link here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jazz recently started work under saddle, and the new trainer has been delighted with Jazz\u2019s foundation. She reports that Jazz has a level of curiosity and connection with herself that is not typical with young horses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Jazz-the-horse-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94\" style=\"width:242px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Jazz-the-horse-1.jpg 353w, https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Jazz-the-horse-1-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started working with Jazz, a 2022 Arabian stud colt, during his 1 year old year. Jazz had no behavior problems, he was just a clean slate with a curious owner. With clicker training we have taught him to lead safely, allow hoof handling, accept saddle pad and girth, line up at a mounting block, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mertensmammals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}