For the record, i don’t use this to train anything except absolutely necessary, health & safety obedience things. For saddle training, or free lunging, or training a mustang for ANYTHING at all, i don’t insist. I don’t persist. and i’m not consistant. I ask in a number of different ways, i reward a try. And i don’t drill-train …not even a dog. I’m really flexible when i train for performance.
I took this as such, when it came to gate behaviour.
And I have been totally rocking it y’all! Just a “shh shh” of my voice and everyone backs off now 
Then I calmly pull my guy out. I am thinking that maybe a hybrid halter may serve us well. I do find the rope a bit of a pain to put on and cross tie with.
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Well done! I so happy that your trainer gave you such great help! Hopefully they’re all behaving for the barn staff as well.
No complaints from the staff. I picked this halter up today to try. The staff have moved from the chain to the rope halter today. Overall very happy with the “downgrade” in head gear
Wondering if I should perhaps rename this thread
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Ooh, that’s pretty. I have the hybrid halter from HEC, which I like a lot, but hadn’t seen that Le Mieux version.
I was going to go with the walsh one but this one was half the cost.
I dunno. 15 minutes of fire, then grain might be a good way to acclimate them to fire.
Question: Can you move the gate do a different section of fence? Then you could restart their manners training at the new gate, without the holdover of the memory (either memory. The fire, or the getting-lose-and-running-around.)
