Chewie and I are making a lot of progress with her new stay behavior. (You can read about the beginning of this project in Chewie’s Diary #76.) We first gradually increased the distance until I could walk about 12 feet away. Why twelve feet? It’s about as far as I can walk away from Chewie […]
We’re officially in the dog days of summer now. It’s hot and yucky outside, even in the morning and even in the shade! Chewie and I are still doing a little bit of training, but I can tell that she’s wishing for cooler days. Chewie and her buddy Liberty, the donkey, are both pretty itchy, […]
As I wrote about last week, Chewie and I have started to work on stay. Currently, Chewie can stay on her platform while I walk about ten feet away. I am expanding this behavior by adding more distance. We are also increasing the duration of time that I can wait when I walk away. Here’s […]
Chewie and I have started to work on a new behavior — stay! It’s pretty darn hot right now. Stay is a good behavior to practice because it doesn’t involve a whole lot of movement, and we can do our sessions in the shade of the barn. I’m using Chewie’s big platform for our stay […]
After breakfast today, Chewie left me a present in her tub. A baby tooth! Horses continue to loose their baby teeth and gain adult teeth until they are around five years old. Chewie is three, currently, and she certainly looks like an adult horse now. But, finding the baby tooth was a good reminder that […]
It’s been hot and humid recently in north Texas. Chewie finds some relief from the heat by swimming in the pond, which I wrote about last week. She’s also quite itchy currently and really enjoys a good scratch. Chewie and I have a game we play when I’m scratching her. I will pause after scratching her […]
