{"id":988,"date":"2016-04-29T05:34:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2017-03-02T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T23:05:15","slug":"can-it-get-any-more-fun-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Can It Get Any More Fun Than This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter chose a ball for us, pink and purple of course. We had been targeting a ball getting ready, now we had a ball specially for this, it had stopped snowing and I had a moment.<\/p>\n<p>He walked up to the ball and touched as soon as he got in the round pen. I clicked him but he didn&#8217;t want a treat, there was some grass. I guess that works. I left him to eat some grass so he wouldn&#8217;t be so desperate for it when we started working and got the rest of my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>When I came back we got down to it. He immediately grasped the concept and within a couple of minutes he was kicking the ball. He was doing it loose but the grass was such a distraction I wanted to make sure he was paying attention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 700px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-988-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/04\/20160428_143349.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/04\/20160428_143349.mp4\">http:\/\/www.pumpkinvinefarms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/04\/20160428_143349.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the way to sack out a horse. He thinks it&#8217;s a fun game, things are bouncing around under his belly, life is good. I have been thinking lately how well this ought to transfer to teaching a horse to work cattle properly. Teach him to target the cutting dummy and he&#8217;d be working it in no time. It really isn&#8217;t any different than a ball or the end of a whip. The possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter chose a ball for us, pink and purple of course. We had been targeting a ball getting ready, now we had a ball specially for this, it had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clicker-training","category-coyote","category-rusty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pumpkinvinefarms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}