the leg subsided and as it subsided he became calmer standing in (thank goodness) - i did have to resort to molasses in his feed, as otherwise he wasn't eating his feed (can't watch the world go by with your head down in your feed dish, can you?)
i did some work on trying to get him to lunge; gaynor lunged him properly tuesday (vet had said to lunge) and then we turned him out as the swelling had gone down hugely and he was sound... therefore better out
tonight (drum roll......) i actually managed to get him to lunge myself, only in walk, but hey! result! one moment he was looking at me challengingly, and the next, he'd caved in.... don't know why, maybe i'd altered something about my body language (probably) .. but off he went.. not hugely fast but not dead slow either...
the only way is up (not i hope literally, LOL)
H-m-m-m-m-m....sounds as if the "body language" theory might be worth pursuing. You need to figure out what you might have done differently.
ReplyDeleteBut, I am glad Monfils is sound and the leg improving. Getting out to move about on it was probably the best medicine ever.