We don't have the luxury of a round pen or an arena... our work and leisure time has to share space. ;~D
I was all excited to work horses a little today, it's ~still~ warm here, it just won't stop raining. :~\
You could have gone all day without mentioning warm weather :) - we have ice crystals 3/4 inch long on the trees and the fence.
You bring up an interesting point that I have thought about asking about before.
Do you think horses associate different areas for different behavior??? IOW's, in the past it has seemed to me that it is harder to get my horses to work good in our arena. It's home to them, sometimes it's the area I turn them into to play, they have been feed and watered there.
If I take them to a different arena, even when it's a familiar arena it seems they pay attention better, and work better. I've wondered if it was my imagination or a real thing.
But, I also think that because of this behavior at home, it is even more important that I get them to work good. Again, establishing whose in control. So it might not be a bad thing. I use to not like even trying here, the horse and I usually would both land up frustrated and I'd think I was back at square one, then I'd go somewhere else and they were fine...
Becky