One of Those Lessons

Do you ever have one of those lessons where muscles you didn't know you had hurt?  I had one of those yesterday.  We were doing really technical things...in my dreams.  We walked and worked on getting Stinker straight.  This is his idea of straight.  Left shoulder popped and haunches trailing to the right.

Haunches to the right

I was really pleased with him.  He would get tense as I was moving his body around, but he let me push him straight.  Obviously it wasn't easy, because my butt is sore.  Apparently I was using that little muscle that pulls your legs back under you for a change.

We have been having some ummm issues with leg being applied and appropriate responses.  I have really been pushing his buttons (sometimes a little too far) to show him that leg is ok.  Because lets face it, without leg we can't do anything fun.

How dare you ask me to move to the right???

So him letting me put leg on and actually move his body in the desired direction is a big step for us.  I was really happy with how well he stepped up and fingers crossed that we are on the path to straightness.  And hopefully I remember to use those those little muscles so they don't hurt so much.