One day's event

A few of the workers and I took all the horses out of their stalls and lead them to the pasture where they remain for the day.  In the pasture, the horses run around for their exercise and also graze on the green grass.   

With two of the trained horses, we began working with two autistic girls.  Then, out of the blue, one of the workers noticed that an older, blind horse was loose and running around.  The horse somehow escaped from the pen.  Gloria, called everyone to work together to round the horse up to put her back in the pasture.  She was not cooperative and we worked longer than expected but finally got her back where she needed to be.  We all discussed influences to this event as well as possible outcomes.  

Possibly the gate did not get latched, either at all or at least not properly or the gate was broken or maybe there was a hole in the fence. 



The outcome definitely hindered the therapy session with the girls, as well as taking our time to chase the horse, so that neither the horse nor a person would become injured, which would have been the worst outcome.