The Repurposed Horse

It's about that time again. I lassoed a friend into helping with the pictures - initially she held the monster and I shot, but when he proved to be particularly annoying, we switched places.  Thanks, K! I met Leo on June 19th, and he came home on the 23rd.  The first set of pictures I have are from that first day, almost 3 months ago.  It feels like it's been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer.  3 months is not a long time at all.  How has it only been 3 months?! Ahem. Yes, I know he is facing different directions.  I feel like the overall shape of him has begun to change in a leaner, more badass way.  He's always been on the scrawny narrow side, but I feel like when you see these two pictures side-by-side, he looks a bit...puffy in the original.  Although that could be how he is standing; I definitely need to remember the angles of the original pictures, and which direction he is facing in them.  And he needs to learn  I need to teach ...

It's almost the one month anniversary of bringing Leo home (technically his previous owner, E, dropped him off, but that's beside the point), so I decided that I should do the whole conformation progress picture thing.  My wonderful friend S agreed to be the handler, and Leo decided that he hates having to stand still for pictures when all of his friends are outside in the pasture, so this is the best that we managed to get. The one picture that I have that is full-body 'conformationy' from the day that I met my crazy pony isn't all that great, so it's kind of difficult to see any changes that may have occurred in the last month. Not a lot to see.  Except he's parked out more in the first one, and maybe is looking a little more evenly proportioned.  He looks a lot bigger in photos than he does IRL; I get regular comments about how narrow he is.  He wears a 44" girth right now and it goes almost all the way up on both sides.  He could prob...