End of Week 4

Saturday marked the end of week 4 in Napoleon's training. I really felt like we made quite a break through in his canter work on Saturday. He seemed to really struggle in both his movement and control at the canter, but finally on Saturday- great improvements in both. I was really quite concerned with his athleticism but finally his canter gait smoothed out both directions.

He has turned up his nose at his grain for the past 3 days. Not sure what's up with that unless his mouth is sore from getting his teeth done. He didn't have any wolf teeth or broken teeth but did have razor sharp points, especially on the right side. Got those smoothed out. I am going to try him on some rice bran pellets today and see how he likes those. Even our finicky eaters in the barn seem to like them and they are very high in fat.

Napoleon got to be turned out in the pasture for the last two nights. (He will let me catch him there easily which is why he gets to progress to pasture turnout)

Today we will get to turn back in the cutting pen and follow cattle for several hours. He is very cowy and I think that will be his main focus and his talent.