With two days off, Goose was pretty jumpy and buggery. He acted like we hadn’t been doing anything at all. Caught him up, rode him a bit. But I wanted to try something new today. I know he’s afraid of the ropes and anything moving up around his head. So I went and got my lariat, and as soon as I walked into the round pen and he could hear that rope slide, he turned into a quivering mess. I spent the rest of the time standing on the far side of the Round pen away from him just swinging that rope around my head. We eventually got to the place where he allowed me to touch him with it, and I rubbed him all over. But we’re gonna spend a lot of time going forward getting him used to ropes so he doesn’t have this great fear.
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