Thursday, March 8, 2012

Learning to stay slow

Last night when I came out to work with Regalo, I realized that I do move sometimes too fast.  Like I was wearing a nylon jacket and it was getting too warm, so I quickly started taking it off and noticed Regalo was getting very nervous.  I slowed down and let him put his nose on it and them got to rub on his neck.  He quickly settled down.   When doing the sideways game, I kept pushing him and he got more out of sync.  Then when I decided to just reward him with stopping after just two steps going the correct way he was much happier and released what I wanted.

Next I wanted to back him in and out of the round pen gate.  I had to break it down into small steps where he understood what I wanted and then he did it. 

What a smart and loving horse he is.   He is hear to teach me not the other way around.

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