13th December 2024
Working with Belle outside is great because she has more space to decide how close she wants to be to a human, and we know how much trust she has lost.
The work that has been done in giving her space and listening is paying off because her thinking levels are now at a place where she is considering her own feelings about things, seeing what is happening, and deciding whether it is dangerous or not. When she first arrived at Faugere she would just go straight into panic and flight mode whenever a human put any focus on her.
There is a lovely moment in this video where Belle decides to go back to the herd by passing between me and Lisa. At first she couldn’t do it, but by making the space two steps wider, she managed it. Wow! What a major step for her. Such an amazing courageous little pony.