{"id":3379,"date":"2020-03-02T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T11:21:26","slug":"bella-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/bella-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella – March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mon 2nd March<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a week of rain\/snow\/sleet\/wind we have some nice quite, calm, chilly, bright days this week so I’m going to take advantage and play a bit with Bella at Liberty in the roundpen to reinforce the cues I’ve been teaching her online since we got her. The last session in February went quite well but she was reacting to the stick\/string and energy more than was necessary so I’ve just got to play as often as possible to give her some consistent persistence.<\/p>\n

Today was a very good session, she walked away a couple of times, got sticky feet a few times with no draw but eventually started to realise what I was asking her and was putting quite an effort in to draw to me which was lovely. I did the whole session at liberty, not a rope in sight as I just wanted to try to be a good teacher and figure out some communication between us without resorting to putting her back online (unless I really needed to).<\/p>\n

Here’s a few bits of video I did of our session showing me working on DHQ’s to Drawing her Forehand to me and doing it as often as it takes until it starts to become workable cues.<\/p>\n