Our pasture bordered our lawn. In the summer, when I'd be out mowing the
grass, my Morgan gelding, Cabot, would seperate himself from the herd, and
come over to the fence nearest to where I was mowing. If I didn't
aknowledge him in some way, he would stick his foot in the fence (we had
mesh back then), and shake it and the fence up and down a few times. Of
course, his big foot would be stuck. Cabot would just stand there with foot
and fence in the air, waiting for me to get him out, with a smug look on
his face, and his lips muttering a mile a minute.(He "mutters" whenever he
feels he's been slighted in some way.) I would go get him out, while he
stood like a statue. If I didn't pet or talk to him a few minutes, he would
wait until I started mowing again, and do the same thing all over. I
learned it was easier to indulge him a couple of minutes then to get him
unstuck all the time. So who trains who?
BEACON MORGAN HORSES
Helga B. Loncosky
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