Re: dogs and horses

[kerrie and stan]

Bev  ;D im so proud of Stan today.

we were down with the horses and stan was laid in his ussualy spot and our old blind mare was eating a few feet away from were stan was, i was about 14 feet away feeding the other horses. the water trough was over flowing so i needed to go down and sort it out so i moved to a position that i could call stan to me (he wasnt on a ‘stay’ cue, he was on a ‘wait’cue) without him startling the mare to much and cued ‘stan (he stood up)….. come (he jumped foward a step)……. steady’ when stan stood up his collar jingled and the mare twitched her ears toward him so i knew she knew he was there anyway….. i called stan and just as he was about to run towards me i cued ‘ steady’ and he stoped and took 2 small steps foward (looked at horse)…2steps forward (looked at horse)…. 2 steps forward (looked at horse) and he continued to do this until he was past the mare then looked at me and i cued ‘come’ and he came over.

I have been saying ‘steady’ when he is around the horses so do you suppose he picked that up and applied it when i said steady this time? ;D ;D im very pleased with him