Wednesday 11 February 2009
Friendly Friendly Friendly!
Today I woke up and the sun was shining so I sprung out of bed, chucked my horsey-clothes on and went to go play with my Lilygirl! It was so mild that after about 5 minutes up there, I took off my raincoat and Lily went a bit RB because of the noise and flapping so I thought 'oh boy!' and spent a while doing raincoat Friendly Game/desensitisation and it went really well. Afterwards, I could really shake it and make some noise within a metre of her and rub her with it, something I would have never been able to do months ago!
We then played the squeeze game around my bareback pad on the floor and I sent her to it, she was a lot more confident then last time and quickly relaxed as I played Friendly Game and put it on her. I then played the Friendly Game with my Carrot-stick and Savvy String because I knew it would make a weird noise being drawn back against the bareback pad and Lily reacted better than I expected her to. Alately, when I have been using the CS and SS combo to play the Friendly-Game after a good effort, she has actually been relaxing, blinking and stretching downwards which is something she'd have never done previously. Perhaps she's finally accepting and trusting my tools, yay!
I then delved into refining our sideways game a bit, I didn't do too much on it but I just asked for a few good steps at phase 1-2 and quit, Lily did really well.
Then to finish off I played extreme friendly, trying to get Lily more confident with our Driving the forequarters and I did it so well that then she was the opposite and was difficult to yield, always the way, lol. We'll work more on that but I guess I'd rather have her being unresponsive rather than over-reacting.
After hanging out for a bit, spending some UDT together, the heavens opened and it absolutely bucketed it down. Time for me to go home! :)
posted by Lucy at 5:17 pm -
2 Comments:

  • At 12 February 2009 at 20:38, Blogger Em said…

    Yay!!! Sounds like you guys had a great day, nothing beats playing game 1 and just hanging out :)

    Great to hear Lily continues to place more and more trust in you and your tools, your doing such a fab job :) Savvy on :)
    xxx

     

  • At 13 February 2009 at 03:08, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That's way cool that she is relaxing with your tools!
    YAY!

     
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