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Hello! Thank you for being here this week! Last week I received a WhatsApp from a Costa Rican friend asking me for help with her filly that had injured her leg. As with any other injury it required medicating and care and in order to do this she wanted the filly to enter a chute which she had never done before.   The only thing my friend had clear was that she did not want to do it with force; she needed to do it as she did not know how the filly would react to the medicating and the application of the spray which had to be done.   In the end all went well, the filly entered the chute and allowed the medicating procedure to take place perfectly! The lesson this leaves us is to not wait until something happens to an animal in order to teach them to enter narrow spaces easily.   Today I will show you the procedure taken when preparing the entering and exiting of narrow areas. I will also show you how we practice this on a daily basis with an exercise which brings great