Monday morning

Lucky for us that Cathy could rearrange her day, to help get Tia home. On the journey there we came up with options, just in case Tia still wasn't happy. Leaving her there till we could sort out the problems, calling out a Parelli pro, using a bigger lorry, sedating her. ok armed with new options we started again.
It was a lovely sunny day, Tia was dozing in her stable and quite happy to see me I think. I asked her to go on the lorry which she did no problem, but always had to have her head facing out. Lots of on off till I felt my emotions coming up so Cathy took over. We played with the partition and realised pretty quickly that was making her even more claustrophobic, so we took it out completely. That was better but still not right. 1 1/2 hours later we took a break, had some lunch and decided what had worked and what hadn't. Tia had now got to the stage were she didn't want to come off because the ground was uneven and she knew she would be asked to go back on again. We started the next session with putting her in the lorry then closing the half doors, much like a stable, she was ok with that. Cathy went into the lorry with her and had me slowly lift the ramp, approach and retreat, only to about chest height. While I was doing this Cathy was holding the line and simulating what it would be like if Tia was tied, she couldn't cope with the pressure on the rope at all!. uummm how interesting! Cathy said she wouldn't be happy to travel with her untied so now it was decision time... I didn't want to spoil how far Tia had come so went with the option of having her sedated, just enough to get her home safely. Cathy called the vet who was happy to come and do this for us. When we got home Tia came off the lorry quite happy and started grazing straight away. We knew we'd made the right decision for her. Quick trip back in the lorry to pick up Bella and get the stables cleaned out, and off home again, unfortunately in the rush hour traffic! Wow! what a weekend!