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Teaching Shadow to drive, stages 1 , 2, & 3

For the Kittitas County Fair, I made a poster for Shadow's door with some photos of the stages of training we have taken him through in the past year or so.

Thought I'd post the pictures up to show all of y'all that couldn't make it to the fair. Thanks to Shadow's owner Liz Lasell-McCosh for taking these pictures of him and me!

Lunging:
We are in a round pen, Shadow is moving around me in a circle. We practiced verbal commands (Walk, Trot, and Whoa) and he learned to wear a surcingle (belly band) and a bit and bridle.


Ground driving:

We are still in the round pen, but now I have two lines running from the bit, through rings on the surcingle, to my hands. This is how we taught Shadow to steer and stop from the bit.



Outside the pen:
Here we are still ground driving but we are outside the pen. Now that he steers and stops (fairly) reliably we are going around the farm and up and down the driveway. He's also wearing a real driving harness in this shot, what he will use to pull the cart. Special thanks to canine assistant Baxter.

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posted by Jaime_sama @ 11:24 AM