Wednesday 28th January

Today Eddy’s niece came to play with Smarty again and Nadine came to teach her, as I struggled last week as I couldn’t speak to her as my Dutch still sucks!!
I watched them playing with him to start with and they were just having so much fun both playing friendly games with him, at one point both of them were running and dancing round him and he was just standing there really relaxed. It was really nice to see how much fun they were having and how good an imagination Daisy has, plus it was all so good for Smarty to have all these friendly games played with him.

I was still quite sore today after my treatment yesterday, so Eddy offered to ride Blossom again for me! So I played a little with her online to get her warmed up and saddled ready for Eddy to ride her. Today she was so much better and stayed much more relaxed for him and did fight less than she did the other day. Today again Eddy changed his strategy for riding her and today mainly played with circles around a block and making her yield sideways to the block. It was really good to watch and I even filmed him riding her on my camera so I could watch it all again and try and really work out what he is doing and most important when he is doing it.

Once Eddy finished I did have a little ride on her and she was so much softer than normal, so it was really nice to feel how it could be like with her and now it is just up to me to keep this work up with her so she stays like this.