Outside adventures

Our round pen is on order. So for now Bentley gets turned out in a fenced in area. Not really horse proof, well Bentley proof, so he has to be supervised. Couple days ago was his first outing to that area. He hasn't been out of his stall since getting here. One the breeder hadn't taught him to lead. Two I needed help with the swap.

Since this was going to be his first outing. I was anticipating a lil bit of ....excitement? Yeah..I guess I was. First off when I opened the gate and asked him to come out. He wouldn't step past the opening. I let him take his time. I didn't want to rush him any. After a couple of min he took his first step out. I asked him to walk along with me and he did. Such a good lil boy. I asked for some halt transitions. Which he did without hesitation. Even with tecate walking on the other side of the fence. AND the goats being asses right along side of her. The only real hesitation he had was walking into the pen. We have an oak tree that over hangs right there. It really needs to be trimmed but...we have yet to do that. Right where that one branch over hangs there is a trash can. So visually it looks cramped. Bentley stopped and looked at everything. You could tell he was a bit spooked by it. But he was thinking it over. I dropped a bigger loop into the lead and started to walk through. Like a champ he followed. He had the look of OMG OMG OMG OMG on his face but he trusted me and walked on through. So proud of him.

He ran around for a bit but was mostly interested in the goats. He tried to cut them. It was so damn cute. He's also a easy one to catch. Didn't matter where he was or what he was doing I could walk up to him at any point. He would even follow me if I asked.

I've also started working Tecate near him. From just grooming, picking feet, tacking up and leading. To actually working her on the lunge in front of him. He always watches with serious intensity its too cute. This may not actually help but I think it does. Cant hurt right?