Gonna share a little story about the difference between Maddie and Cowboy. Maddie trained Cowboy and she did an awesome job. She raised him with an iron fist and when she corrected him she did it with tooth and nail! He was a pretty fast learner, even with a bump or two along the way.
Now, Cowboy is getting to be a pretty great, grown-up kinda guy. Lately he's been spending some time with the bucks. I've had them in a different pen lately, and as we know - Cowboy goes anywhere on the place that he wants to - fence or not, lol. (But he hasn't catapulted the perimeter fence since December! YAY
So, yesterday he was in the buck pen with the guys. I went into another area and left the gate open and the bucks followed me through. I didn't want them in there so I was chasing them around in circles and they went everywhere EXCEPT out the gate. So, what's an old lady to do - I called Gracie, the English shepherd. English Shepherds have many talents and one of them is herding. She has no formal training, but she's pretty much a natural at anything she does - soooooo... She knows exactly what I want and in about 1.5 seconds she has three of those bucks outta that pen. Only problem is that there were FOUR bucks in there. She looks at me like... please, please, let me! I tell her to "get 'im" and she sure did. She went at him from about 8 feet away and he hightailed it right outta there - BUT - before she could get any closer Cowboy stepped right in between her and the goat. He wasn't mean about it - he didn't bowl her over or attack her - he just stood in front of her and she stopped in her tracks.
I had totally forgotten Cowboy was in there or I'd never have asked Gracie to move them. But, she did her job and he did his. He just did it with a little more gentleness than Maddie would have, lol.
He has crossed a bunch of hurdles, and it sounds like he has learned from each one.....tho, I think the Owner/Trainer/Mother Hen needs a "Pat on the Back", too.