Monday, July 12, 2010

Grass was greener on the other side.

Louka Oscar and Arani were all enjoying these lovely warm days in the sunshine....I took them into the yard one at a time and did the follow the feel - both of them were great today...no issues there...so we did a bit of follow me with your eye- both sides-excellent...Oscar will back up...Arani is good at it sometimes, but not all the time but we finished on a good note with him taking one step back...GREAT!!!! I let them all back out onto grass....I had moved the electric tape out further yesterday....I was down admiring my new shed- where the new yard come small paddock is going when I noticed an all over ORANGE animal standing in with the herefords...Yep it was Arani...now how did he get there- he must've jumped over the 2 tiered tape....there were no hoofmarks anywhere so he must've just popped over...here he was amongst the cows trying to look inconspicuous....I had to plan this right or I could have a runaway full of too much grass - in a ten acre paddock on my hands- I put Louka and Oscar back into the yards and dismantled both ends of the electric tape- gave me a good gate sized opening either end....Well I needn't have worried...I called him and he came...I walked through one of the openings and he followed me...Just goes to show that what I THOUGHT he'd do was nothing like he intended...He was as calm as you like and was quite happy to come back in...THANKYOU GOD!!!!  So all's well on the western front Phew!!!  The rest of the day went really well.

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  1. Ha thats because he knows you are savvy!

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  2. I think he was saying "he could outsmart the human" hahaha But No in the end the human worked it through and outsmarted him..He loves it..a great game...Now we work together...He really didn't mind coming back in each time..as though it was just another routine....cheeky chap

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