We got home late today, so I decided to do a little ground
work and work on her fear of tight places.
The ground work went as expected, the other not so much. Remember I said you have to deal with the
horse that shows up? Today, Sissy was a
little twitchy.
Once we warmed up with some basics, I started her back on
the box. For some reason, this rattled
her today. She could not make herself
stand on that box. But we kept working
at it and she was finally able to calm down.
She stood there, chewed and licked…releasing those endorphins. Once she calmed down, I started asking her to
step forward and backward…but not off the box.
Once she was doing that ok, I just never stopped her from backing up. She backed off the box as pretty as you
please. Once she was stepping off pretty good, I moved to our stocks.
The box is wide open, nothing around it. The stocks add a level of claustrophobia, it
has bars on the sides. She didn’t like
it at first, but it didn’t take her long to get the idea. She quickly stepped in and backed out like a
pro.
After a bit of a rough start, she finished strong.
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