An easy day

Today I really needed to do some much needed catch-up work with my other training horses, so I was only able to spend a little time with Cabrito today. That and I'm feeling like I'm getting a cold so I kept my work load as light as possible. At feeding time this evening, I used his new found love of grain to see if I could pique his curiousity a little bit. It worked for the first 5 minutes - he would get real close and then decide it wasn't worth it and walk away. He quickly gave up on coming to me since he figured out I wasn't just going to dump the grain in his feeder and leave him alone! lol. So I worked on driving him off and then backing off to relieve the pressure when he faced me or walked towards me. I worked on that with him for about 15 minutes when he made a good change. Cabrito put himself in the "uncomfortably close zone" and was able to stay put and not leave. So I just turned around and left his pen, and he actually followed me, head down licking and chewing. I think I will practice this with him a couple of times each day and see how far we get with it!