Duration: ~ 30 minutes
Activities: I was out of town for the week so we reviewed things he already knows well:
Standing for grooming,
understanding noise (movement from me, ropes, whips) versus pressure/cues from me,
moving his hips and shoulders,
trotting on a long line,stopping and changing direction, and backing up.
Observations: He ate grass through the first part of our desensitization and I let him because he has been so nervous previously. Once I began asking him to move he was very responsive, but was anticipating what I wanted. We worked on slowing it down and listening first. A little sticky on his mane side which tends to be his tough side. I then went back to desensitization and he had a harder time discerning when my energy was on versus off, so we worked on that until he was settled. I then worked on giving to lateral halter pressure. Again his mane side was his stiffer side.
Super happy that he had a week off, but he seemed settled and eager to work. He seemed to want to show me he remembered everything.
Standing for grooming,
understanding noise (movement from me, ropes, whips) versus pressure/cues from me,
moving his hips and shoulders,
trotting on a long line,stopping and changing direction, and backing up.
Observations: He ate grass through the first part of our desensitization and I let him because he has been so nervous previously. Once I began asking him to move he was very responsive, but was anticipating what I wanted. We worked on slowing it down and listening first. A little sticky on his mane side which tends to be his tough side. I then went back to desensitization and he had a harder time discerning when my energy was on versus off, so we worked on that until he was settled. I then worked on giving to lateral halter pressure. Again his mane side was his stiffer side.
Super happy that he had a week off, but he seemed settled and eager to work. He seemed to want to show me he remembered everything.
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