September Giveaway
September Giveaway
This weekend I have plans to do some new paintings with Chincoteague Minnow. After Pony Penning 2009 we were nearly cleared out of all his recent paintings – so its high time we start making some new ones. Since we will be adding new stock to the website and our retail shop in Downingtown, Pa I decided that we should make room for the new stuff.
So we’re giving some away! This is the first time we will be giving away a Minnow painting and if it goes well hopefully we will continue to do so in the future.
Today’s giveaway will be for one of Minnow’s mini paintings. These paintings are only sold at our retail location (you can’t get them on the website). This particular painting is a 5×7 painted on matboard – a complete original by Minnow.
So now you are probably wondering, how can I win? Here’s the details:
PRIZE: one 5×7 mini pony painting
TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “PAINTING PONIES”
BONUS QUESTION: Tell us what trick you would teach your horse if you could teach him anything. I just might use your idea and teach it to one of the ponies!
CONTEST CLOSES: Friday, September 25, 2009 at 9am EST
NUMBER OF WINNERS: one
FINE PRINT: one entry per person, winners will be selected at random using random.org and announced on Friday.
Be sure to check out all of Minnow’s original works of art on www.PonyPaintings.com and if you don’t win, remember, you can always purchase your favorite painting on the website! Good Luck!
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PAINTING PONIES
I would teach my horse to also play dead!
PAINTING PONIES
I can’t resist free things, lol!
I’d love to teach 2-4 of my horses to do a liberty style circus act, even if it was just doing simple things all together. I’ve watched several of Allen Pogue’s DVDs, but he’s a bit too oriented in the world of negative reinforcement for me, I’d want to do it with just positive methods. This is a long term dream/goal, as most of the horses I’m working with at this point are pretty green.
Sebastian and I have started working on picking up objects. I’d like to get a kid sized plastic basketball hoop and teach him to retrieve the ball and then dunk it in the basket. I’ve seen several horses that can do this and it’s a cute trick.
cheers,
Mary H.
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I too have watched several of Allen Pogue’s videos. I haven’t really used any of his methods -because I like the clicker training. But I did teach Minnow Allen’s obeisance trick on a pedestal (of course without ropes like Allen does it)..I would like to see his video “Using Treats as a Training Tool” though.
The whips he sells are great. I use them as target sticks only because they have that ball on the end. I also used his pedestal plans to build my own.
And I agree a liberty act would be really cool. I’m hoping to someday perfect one with my guys, but my two younger ones are just too young right now. They need more training under their belt.
I’ve seen a horse do the dunk trick too…it is neat. I started this trick with Minnow but I had him dunking his ball into a bucket – eventually the dog stole and destroyed his ball so I never finished the trick haha. 🙂
PAINTING PONIES
I would want to teach my pony how to rear. Another thing that I think would be cute would be if you taught Minnow how to throw things. I know that you have taught him to fetch with you, but wouldn’t it be cute if you taught Minnow how to throw a toy to Ammo??
Kyley–
What if you had some sort of catapult or trebuchet set up?
Minnow could step on one end of it, tossing the ball up into the air for Ammo. Somehow you’d have to come up with some sort of design so that the ball was projected forward and didn’t hit the horse.
Better yet, Ammo could toss a ball for Minnow to go fetch!
Mary H.