Tia and PJ will be presented at the Colorado Oldenburg Inspection next Wednesday. In preparation for that, my friend and neighbor, who is also my trainer, helped me load them on and off the trailer yesterday morning. PJ was pretty good about it, which surprised me a little. She's only four and she hasn't been in a trailer for months.
Tia is her own little pony! She has reactions to things that surprise me. Like when I gave PJ her first bath after Tia was born. Tia reacted as if I were butchering her mom. PJ loves her bath and water in general - so she was not feeding off PJ in any way. Tia ran all around the pasture crying and every once in a while she would look back at us in horror - like she couldn't stand to watch. Eventually the drama subsided. Next week they will both have to get baths and be braided. It will be interesting to see how that goes.
When PJ hopped on the trailer, Tia bolted from the noise. She seemed to lose sight of the fact that mom was unperturbed, standing quietly in the trailer. Since Tia likes to go first, not follow mom, we took PJ off the trailer to put her on first. She went on and off a few times and when there was need only of a minimum of pushing and coaxing, we put them both on together.
When it was all over and we were on our way back to the foal pen, Tia had a bit of a melt down. Well, temper tantrum, really. I'm not sure what that was about except she seemed to want to have the last word about who was in charge of her. It didn't work out the way she had hoped.
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