Treats!

Yesterday Siesta ate carrots from my hand, with me standing outside of her pen.  The carrots were slender and sweet, and she took dainty little nibbles from them, like a princess-in-training at tea.  Her expression made me wonder if she really enjoyed them, or if she was just trying to please the weirdos on two legs.  Today, however, she thoroughly enjoyed them.  In fact, she gobbled them greedily from my hands, one after another.  And guess what else?  She loves little peppermint cookies!  She takes them right from the palm of my hand, from outside or inside the pen.  She actually walked up to me for cookies!  Soon she'll let me scratch her on the neck for a cookie, then she'll let me snap a new rope on her halter for a cookie, and then she'll stand on her head....no, wait, just kidding, but I am really, really happy about this.  Bribery does indeed get us almost anywhere.