Spent a lot of time working on catching him. He would let me touch him in the big pen but not let me catch him. So I ran him into the round pen and we worked on catching him. He was very hard to catch it first, I have a thought that maybe he doesn’t like men. We spent an hour touching him, give him a little snack and walk away. A lot of rinse and repeat on this. He is still pretty twitchy about being caught, but getting better. At the end of about an hour on the ground, he was standing, let me walk up to him, put the halter on him, touch him all over and I could do this repeatedly.
But, I wondered if I could catch him back in the big pen. And he taught me a lesson about finishing on a good note. Because once we got back in the big pen, he would have nothing to do with me even for food. I think sometimes the horse gets a win too. And tonight was goose‘s win. I do believe that he will be better in the catchability department tomorrow, but I think maybe it’s gonna take a lot of time to get him used to being caught. And a small pen might be in his future for the ability to catch Him.
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