Trompie Learns To Wear A Harness

Jess and I decided it would be a good idea to teach Trompie to wear a harness for when he has to visit the vet. It is not the intention that he should be like a dog on a leash,just a way of constraining him when necessary while he is still small enough to be handled...a fully grown 90kg male warthog is Not going to be led about when he doesn't want to...and no-one I know is going to try to do so...! So..while we can imprint some things on him we are going to do just that.....

The first time he got to wear the harness he:

Tried to rub it off....

Tried to crawl out of it...

Begged on his knees to get us to take it off..

Tried to run clear out of it...

Tried to intimidate the camera man (Lady) with mane and tail wildly erect, and force her into taking it off!

And finally,in a tiff...,accepted it...

He now wears his harness for half an hour each day and has grown accustomed to it and never tries to get it off anymore....

Tarien and Jess even goes for short walks on a leash with him every other day and he is quite happy to be led around and has caught on as to what is expected of him when he is put on a leash....

"What???"Do you want me to go walkies again?"

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