Day Fourteen

(Written April 4)

All I could think of today was that I wished to God that we didn't have break right now. I feel like by doing nothing with them for five days, we're going to put ourselves back at square one when we get back from break. However, despite the tangible evidence that we did indeed make progress with him (the halter on his head), I don't believe we've made any true progress with him. We've dominated him without force, sure, and he's more accepting of the halter, but he's still not comfortable with anything. I've never thought about how there are two parts to things like haltering and saddling: the human has to get it on the horse and the horse has to accept it. Just because its there and the horse is not fighting doesn't mean that he's accepted it, and I get that feeling from Bob Marley on just about everything. I want to see something that tells me we're getting somewhere.