Dear Reader,
Here is a nice way to end a ride for Lyle. We are still working in the zig gag pen. It will be time to leave it soon and work in a larger area. But for Lyle a nice way to end a training ride is to ask him to mount his platform. After he is on it, I slide off of his back. This platform helps him because he percieves it as a reward.
Soon I will enlarge the area in which we ride. We will work back and forth leaving the bigger area and returning to "home base" platform. But I think that soon Lyle will have his "home base, security blanket" in his heart and he will not need a platform.
In the above picture I have just dismounted and removed his bridle. He will stay on the platform until I give him a choice to leave it or to stay on it. This choice that he is given seems to help Lyle to think well about what just happened on our little training ride.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Penny Johnson
Bonners Ferry, Idaho USA
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