Saturday, 14 August 2010

Rain, rain go away!

We managed a short play session in between the showers today.
We moved Rocky and Bonny into the back field today which totally upset Tia and Bella because they couldn't see them! oh well play with the horse that shows up... Tia was rb, very spooky so we played by the barn to begin with. Donna was checking through the self assesment sheet when Tia wandered over and nicked the paper out of her hands, Tia wasn't going to give it up so I had to rip it before she started eating it! Very funny, especially Donnas expression as I handed it back to her... almost in one piece!
We opened up the trailer, Tia was very interested with that but very careful not to put her feet on the ramp! I gave her sometime to explore before we went off into the barn and played with touch it, she's such a cool horse, happy to explore most things. We went back to the trailer, I asked her to put her foot on the ramp which she did after a couple of minutes, so I gave her a treat and went and sat down for a while. I could see that had been a big thing for her, she spent ages just licking my hands.
Went to the squeeze game, Tia walked through in both directions really calm and disengaged beautifully. No point in doing that to death, so I thought we'd have another go at figure 8 at walk... coming from my left she goes through with just a point of my finger but the right is where she got stuck, but she was asking a question so I redirected her till she did one without stopping. I was so tempted to then ask for it at trot..... but I didn't!
Went over to the pedestal and asked her for a try there, eventually she managed to touch it with her foot :o) she's never done that before! so again we went to the trailer. Without me even asking she put both feet on the ramp and was really curious about what was in there. I backed her up then asked her to walk over the ramp, which she did no problem. That was it for the day.
Funny to watch Bella and Tia while we were putting things away, Bella loaded herself in the trailer and Tia stood on the ramp watching her :o) Why do I never remember to take the camera out with me?

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