Day7: let it rain

Today was a fairly warm day so we decided that a little bit of bathing practice would be good. As discovered earlier in the gentling process, Reece dose not particularly like the water being sprayed or even dribbled on her at all so we decided that an indirect hit of water would be good. She drinks a large amount of water and if we hold the hose in front of her she will drink out of it and she will also paw at the water in her trough to splash herself. Me and my sister stood outside of the pen with the hose on full blast and sprayed it up over the paddock so that it reached almost everywhere. We hoped that it would be enough like rain that she would not mind but it was obvious she was not tricked. She would always find the one or two places that water did not hit and hide in it unlike spud, the pony we have in with her, who loved it and stood quietly as content as a bug in a rug. If Reece stopped moving while the water was on (I think she only did once while she was in the water) we would release the pressure. We did this for about ten min. then I turned off the hose and did some quick ground work review before feeding for the night.