Despite the fact that Daffy has been out of work for over a month now, time has flown.
Retirement does not suit him, of that I am certain. It's also rather difficult to entertain a clever pony who is seriously limited in what he can do. Mostly, we've been walking out inhand, all in a headcollar (quite the feat!), but we've also been playing in the school.
I'm actively getting back into CT again in an attempt to find new things to do. Sometimes we're allowed to do lateral work, sometimes we mustn't do any hill work. Whatever I do, I have to make sure I don't teach him anything that might cause YO problems.
We had a blast today. First in his stable, I've hung an old milk bottle up, and we were targeting that. Then a different bottle in the school, attempting to teach him to pick it up. Then we had a shavings bag (Daffy maintains he's scared of them) pinned to the ground. He won't put a hoof on it after scaring himself the other day, but he'll touch it with his nose again, so building that slowly. We also did some "stay" and "come" work, and he had a roll before we went out for a walk.
We are making progress on the physical side, he even felt up to jumping one day last week, and proudly heaved himself over a 1ft tops cross pole a few times. If not for the fact that a) he had his shoes pulled - so far so good - and b) he hurt himself in the field, he would've been under saddle a couple of weeks ago.
I've ordered a trick training book, in the hopes of finding more ideas, and I really want to get him one of those large horse training balls, but perhaps not at £50.