More Ground Work

Another night of ground work for Chainsaw.  Did the repeat of the lateral flexation from the ground, no problems.  Got the handy stick and string out and did some de-sensitizing which went well.  A little lunging, yaaaa, going great.  THEN did some spanking of the ground and found a hot button.  Almost lost him off the end of the long lead a couple times, but he quieted down within a minute or so and caught onto this game too and realized that it wasn't going to hurt him.  At first he thought it meant to go go go and he wanted to lunge around me as fast as he could go.  But wasn't long before he caught onto my body language and stood stock still, licking his brains and with a cocked leg.  After that we did another session of loading into the trailer, with the door closing behind and while he's not getting A's in that department he does load and stay in the trailer pretty good.  It had been over a week since his last trailer loading and he retained most of everything he did the last time.  Was tuff not to throw a saddle on and ride, but that will come in due time.