Not sure what happened to last week... it went by in a blur!
Cathy is here and day 1 is over. Bonny loaded into Cathy's lorry in about 1/2 an hour with the final attempt by Cathy, she just needed that extra bit of pressure that I wasn't giving her. We made it to Ashover eventually, with only a couple of wrong turnings! It rained nearly all day!
Big panic by me when we got there as Bonny was down in the lorry. Cathy just opened the ramp and let her find her own way out. She was a bit shakey and has a graze down her face but hopefully she will be fine. We turned Bonny out with Evie, they just walked away together like old friends. We went to play in the afternoon, thankfully Cathy let me play in the field Bonny and Evie was in, which was interesting as Evie kept wanting to take Bonny back. After permission from Cathy one flick of the carrot stick kept Evie away for the rest of play.
Obviously Bonny was rbi, being in a different place and other horses around, so we took it nice and slow. She couldn't come to me when I first went in so I went closer and asked her again, she still couldn't so I went to her and gave her a treat. Evie was totally ignoring me but I know she was aware of everything that was going on. when I turned and walked away Bonny followed me at liberty which was nice, till Evie trotted over and took her away again! so funny. As it was wet and with Bonny's fall in mind I didn't want to play the catching game so I waited till they stood still and walked over to Bonny again, she followed me and I got the halter on much quicker this time. There's poles, tyres and a gate all set up in the field so we played squeeze, yo-yo through the tyres, stick to me, sideways over the poles. Bonny was great really trying to do everything I asked, including when I asked her to put her nose on one of the tyres I pointed to it so she put her nose on my finger, how cute! she got a treat for that. lots of walking over the poles to help her stretch out her back legs. For a rest, I kept taking her over to the gate where she could see the other horse playing in the arena, lots of approach and retreat cos they were very scarey! by the end of the session she was falling a sleep there. So proud of my baby.
I gave Bonny an extra scoop of movefree+ and some of the alphabute in her dinner hope that helps with any pain she might have from the fall. Hope to get some pics if it stops raining for long enough!
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