> tonight. He's open minded but he likes to learn in increments...small > little steps. Once he has something it's locked in so we're very > careful about what we teach him. So far so good...
On our trail ride last weekend Tivar and the other horse I was with got really spooky. It was very windy and you could hear some big critter cracking twigs in the bushes, probably a deer but maybe a wild hog by the way the horses reacted. Tivar started getting jumpy and every time a limb would snap he would jump out of his skin but he never whirled or tried to take off and I could tell the whole time he had at least one ear and one eye on those woods, and then one time he took off at a fast trot trying to distance himself from it, and I let him but when he went to transition faster into canter I wouldnt allow it and he didnt try and disobey so I think he is getting to be a real real good trail horse. we saw tracks and it could have even been a wolf. it was too deep in the woods to be a single wild dog. janice-- yipie tie yie yo
