On 2/3/07, Robyn Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you are interested I will send you an article about a different way to > approach work with plastic. > > I am not trying to push any different ideas on people but I'm happy to make > suggestions if you are interested. > > Robyn
that would be great, thanks Robyn. I have clicker trained him to do some tricks, and he responds well to it. I have sacked him out completely long ago, and he did well with it. This time he did great but like you said, I did note as soon as I walkerd to the other side with the tarp the head went up, the neck was tense, his eyes showed the white more (he is pinto so it shows some white all the time) but I saw all those signs and thought hmm,.... this is where he has a gap and I tried to approach it slowly but he was just surprisingly freaked out. he may have had a bad tarp experience lately without me knowing it! I did come home one day, the day my Nasi was gelded, and there had been a small tornado in our yard with trees down, sheets of tin blown around and empty feed sacks blown everywhere from where they had been stacked under the pole barn. There was also a blue tarp blown into some bushes near the paddock he was in... but maybe he is in a spooky state with jangled nerves! When he freaked I let him run all he wanted and just stood quietly til he stopped and I stood on the other side of the rp from him just casually wiggling the tarp a little til he quieted, then more. Until he was was finally ok with it! Took about 44 minutes I think... before I was rubbing and flapping it all over him while he was very relaxed and ok with it... Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
