Abbey now stands quietly while I pick up all her feet. Even though she's not haltered. she's learned not to move off. I've started desensitizing her to a flapping towel, but not in the traditional "sacking out" sense. First I rub her all over with the towel folded to just slightly larger than my hand. Then I unfold it and repeat until finally the towel is flapping on her and on her legs as I rub. By starting with it small and non-threatening, she never gets worried and and I can actually flap it on her a bit. I'll be repeating this process with lots of different things always starting where she's not worried and building on that.
If it doesn't stop raining here, Abbey will be learning to swim!
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