With time, turn-out and training, Lance has gotten less mouthy since moving here in January. He still uses his mouth plenty, though. One of his more recent habits is to grab the corner of the wire panel covering the upper half of Sammy's stall door and "spring" it loudly, demanding to be served quickly at mealtime. I noticed yesterday when I was getting Lance ready to school that the upper left baling twine tie had broken. The wire panel was slightly askew, so I straightened it.
Last night I was working frantically to finish a client's project so Rick did chores without me. He heard Lance clang the wire – and then panicked scrambling as my horse fled his stall. When he investigated, he found the wire panel askew – and against the electric wire that keeps the horses off the dividing wall between the stalls. That busy mouth got buzzed, but good!
The barn was much quieter at chore time this morning.... ;-)
5 comments:
LOL, I'll bet it was.
:-D
Natural consequences...perfect!
It'll be interesting to see if henceforth, Lance leaves the wire panel alone.
LOL that was the perfect deterent.Of course non of us would have the heart to do it delibererately.
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