Eva's Glow Up

 The other thing we did with Eva last week was turn her into a sport horse. As opposed to a reiner.

Before

Lisa intentionally left this mane on her because she knew Mary and I would turn it into a good before/after photo, as we did with Aeres and Encore before Eva. And because Mary positively itches if a horse isn't "a bath away from the show ring." So the very first day she met Eva...

It needed to be cut before it could be pulled, but we didn't try pulling. She's sensitive, for all the good parts of that and all the bad parts of that, and sounds in particular seem to be a lot for her. Including the sound of the scissors. Pulling seemed like it would be asking a lot.

(Although as I write this post, I remember that her full sibling Encore also hated the sound of the scissors but fell asleep for pulling so...maybe I'll give that a shot soon.)

This was also the first time I had crosstied her after learning from Leah that she had been crosstied by her friends before, and she stood reasonably still for 20-30 minutes during all this, so I have no complaints.

In the end, not only did she end up looking a lot better, she also has to feel better having all that hair off her neck in the hot Indiana summer.