April 14 Update - Worked with Houston on grooming and picking up his back feet. The winds were super high today and he found focusing on me a challenge. We worked through it though. He tries so hard to please which is such an endearing quality!

April 2 Update - Houston continues to make steady progress. We have been working on approach and retreat. This evening he walked up to me in his stall for the first time instead of the other way around. He’s been walking up to the gate to get carrots but this was his first time approaching with me in the pen. Usually I have to approach him. Yesterday we worked on grooming and desensitization. He was a little jumpy when I went to halter him so we did some basic sacking out with exaggerated arm movements and lots of hugs and rubs!