He is dog gentle with my son. I can walk in the pen to get him out and he won't hardly budge without some coaxing, but my son can grab the lead and he just takes to following him. When I am leading him he will push against me but he never does anything like that with my son. A good example was last night......We have another heifer that I am breaking to lead, she has been on the farm for 10 days and we pulled her straight out of the pasture, she took to the halter OK, after 3-4 days I started to break her to lead she was a little skidish being led for the first time but did pretty well, considering. Last night I was leading her and I was ahead of everyone else (my 3 kids and their calves) and mine spooked for some reason. When I am breaking a calve to lead I walk them on a 20' lead rope so I have plenty to hold on too, well last night I needed ALL of it. She was going crazy, never got away from me but she got an "A" for effort. When she spooked she spooked everything else, my 16 y/o let go of hers, my 14 y/o let go of his, both heifers headed for the barn. This steer jumped back pulling my son to the ground (my son weighs about 65 lbs), when doing this the steer stepped on my sons leg because it was under the steer when he fell. The steer ran in a circle then came right back to my son and stood next to him while he was on the ground. My son stood up and grabed the lead rope and took the steer into the barn gave him some water then returned outside to fininsh walking him, with no problem. My son was OK, of course I am sure it hurt but my son loves showing cattle so much I don't think he would have told me any different. My point to all of this is I think this steer is mindful of the size of my son and acts totally different when he is on the end of the lead rope.......If that's at all possible
