The bikening

Olive is fine with cars and tractors, but she is deeply suspicious of smaller vehicles.

We have been feeding her off the golf cart for five weeks, and she is just now able to tip toe around it.

It's the same - but worse - with bikes. I've had to pause our trail walks because she really is not safe when a bike is present. That's okay for now, but not forever. Bikes are a fact of life on our trails. She needs to learn to deal with them. So today we loaded up a bike and went to the barn. 

I put Olive in the long skinny turnout on the corner of the property, and Ryan got on his bike and road slowly up and down the nearby bike path.

Olive noticed right away.

Her reaction was immediate and predictable.

After a couple passes, she started to settle.

Unhappy, but coping.

Then Ryan got off his bike and brought it up to the fence.

Olive didn't like that either.

I was hoping she'd go over to it, but not this time. She got close-ish, and we decided to call it a day.

Good job, sweet pony. Now we just need to do that again and again and again until you decide it's okay.