Water crossing part 2

.....and success! he is in!!! Russ came along with me to the barn this time. We took a walk to the back field and decided to revisit the water crossing. After several failed direct attempts to get Flash's feet in the creek, we found some large puddles to walk through further up the stream and started with those. Flash would hesitate and then somewhat willingly walk in the grassy puddles. In this part of the field, the puddles sort of drained into the little ditch and the merger of the two was not clearly defined. So I figured if we just started walking down the stream in the water, he would be in and then we could zig zag in and out of the water all the way back to the origianl attempted crossing. That approach worked great! Of course it helped that all the praise and little breaks we took to eat grass in the water were quite helpful too. He's a smart boy and this water is no longer an issue for him. I am sure we will have other water issues down the road, but at least we have a starting point.