Day 29- First Official Bath Today was a nice day so I decided to cool Reece off by doing something new, a bath. You may remember that we have sprayed her with a hose before but I have never actually gotten soap on her. Reece is not very fond of the water from the hose but she is getting much better then she was. My sister brought her pony, Spud, up as well to be hosed off some and maybe also get a full bath.
I started from the basics again since it had been a few days since I had sprayed her with the hose. First I sprayed her feet and when she stopped moving, or if she didn’t move at all, I would take the pressure off by taking away the water. She only moved a few times before she would consistently stand still while being sprayed with the hose. Once I had both sides of her all wet me and my sister got to work scrubbing her down. She loved the giant massage! We got both sides of her all clean without a problem all up her neck, in her main, and down her legs, and in her tail, then we got back to her least favorite part of the bath, the water. She did fairly well and for the most part did not move away from the water although she was clearly annoyed by it.
After we got done with the bath we needed to waste time while the horses dried off so we decided to take them for a walk up the road. She did really well at first but after a few min. she realized she wasn’t in Kansas anymore, and Toto (Spud) was walking to slow. We got about half way up the road and decided to turn around because Spud’s feet did not like the gravel road to much. Over all I think that today was a pretty successful day and although she wasn’t too excited about the hose she did very well.
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