More Training

That lady is finally starting to come around and bring us carrots and apples.  All this week, we have been working on getting her trained and she seems to be doing pretty well!  She shows up with the big pockets full of carrots and a big bucket of apples.  Then we wait for her to put her hand on our sides or our chests and make certain noises, and when we step away or back up or pick up a foot or something, she has to give us a carrot.  It is working out pretty good.  But sometimes she has to go with one of the ponies in the new round pile of logs pen so that the other ponies can't bother us.  She took Billy and Harley and Toby in there and then she took me and little Perl too!  It is way better to be able to teach her stuff in there where Harley and Billy can't bite us.  Harley thinks he is the main teacher boss pony, but he is kind of lazy about it.  He thinks that no matter what she does or says, if he picks up his front foot, he should get a carrot.  So that wasn't working, so then he had to train the lady to do "riding".   She sits on his back and instead of her hand, she puts her leg against his side and if he steps to the side or back, he has her trained to give him a carrot.  He can't just stand there with his foot in the air then.  But he and Billy both think she is getting to be a pretty good student. She doesn't put any big leather things on their backs or those cold shiny metal pieces in their mouths, she just puts the other head strap thing on and then moves her arms or legs and says stuff like "Bak"  and "Ho" and "Wok" and "Step over."  The ponies are even teaching her to just move her weight a little bit and then they do easy stuff and she HAS to give them a carrot.  It is pretty much fun to see her progressing so well.