Spray that again?

Another lovely Autumn evening this evening, and a good opportunity to get Faith out onto the yard again. She has been taking advantage of all the mud to do her best hippopotamus impression, and her lovely Arab mane was heavily caked with the stuff.

Now I’m not someone who is a huge stickler for grooming, but I do like to see a well kept mane and tail. Arab hair is very fine, and prone to tangling easily, so although Faith doesn’t have the sort of mane and tail that would compare with Tommy’s huge masses of hair, it is still much more high maintenance. Consequently I buy a lot of mane and tail conditioner. I don’t actually remember what we used to do in the days before this uber product, but I think it involved a lot of patient teasing out the hair with our fingers. Nowadays, I splash gallons of this magic potion around, particularly in Faith’s direction.

Up until now I have always sprayed it onto a goat hair body brush, loading it heavily with conditioner, and then brushed it into Faith’s mane and tail. This is quite a good way of doing it, and surprisingly effective, if a little time consuming. So tonight I thought I would see if Faith would tolerate me spraying it directly on to her. This is also good for getting her used to things like that in case I ever have to apply wound spray or some such thing.

Well she was absolutely fine about having it on her tail, no problems at all. She was a little less keen about having it on her mane, but I managed to get three good sprays on, clicking and treating each one, before she decided enough was enough, and went off to discuss things with Tilly over the stable door. I am pleased with that though, it is a good start to build on, although no doubt when we are successful, Faith’s cosmetics bill will inevitably skyrocket!

We also did a bit more WWYLM, working predominantly on our dodgy side. I was a bit more on the ball this time, and we definitely did better. Faith seems to have really processed what we did a few nights ago, and although still not as good as the left rein, we are definitely making improvements, both of us!