went really well. But I was missing all the little signs that Tia was giving me that she was unconfident! We were playing with squeeze game through 2 stacks of tyres, Cathy said to be clear and give her time to disengage her hindquarters before I asked her to go again.... I was rushing and swapping stick and rope far too soon! Next we moved 2 tyres so she had to step through them to get through, this was when she started to get unconfident...and I didn't even notice! first of all she jumped over, much higher than needed, then bunny hopped over and the last time she got stuck she couldn't go over at all! we did a resend and allowed her to go around the tyres, lots of licking and chewing and yawning from Tia, me too I was thinking, why didn't I see that she was unconfident, it was so obvious! when we moved to the other side of the squeeze she was even more unconfident and had to go around nearly every time.
Next we went onto the circle game, again Tia wouldn't maintain gait at walk, Cathy showed me how to flick the string behind me then to the side and finally in front to give Tia plenty of warning that it was coming. Cathy did have a play with Tia herself and she was no better for her than she is for me, which I was pleased about! Cathy confirmed that Tia is saying why should I? then when we up the phases she gets unconfident. While we were chatting about things to do and everything that had happened, Tia was looking very sleepy, alot for her to think about too.
I've got 2 weeks to play with these 2 games till Cathy comes over again.
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