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I have a friend with an older mare who scrambles around
every corner in a straight load. She will ride in a slant,
no dividers just fine though. Needs to really spread out!
Another friend has a mare that panics and they found if she
rides backwards in a slant she's wonderful. My gelding
scrambled on the way to a ride on any left turns and
actually fell down. It was a straight load with a divider,
he's been in an open 2 horse and did fine and has been in
my trainer's slant and did fine even with the dividers.
(She owns the mare who rides backwards.) So we're gonna try
a slant and drop dividers and see how he wants to ride as a
trial. good luck!

heidi


--- Laurie Durgin <ladurgin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> He is "scrambling", heard if you corner to fast ,etc.
> some horses 
> will"learn" to do this.Unfortunately I know a few and
> they say once they do 
> this it's really hard to stop it. Both the trainers I
> know won't put a 
> scrambler next to an end wall.They also sometimes take
> the dividers out, if 
> only hauling one.Sometimes they lightly tranqualize them
> to take the edge 
> off.
> YOu might try distracting him(works with some) with a
> haynet and some hay 
> while traveling.Some trainers also haul"loose", they take
> dividers out and 
> don't tie and let the horse find his own balance.
> Unfortuanately I have another friend who rescued a
> arab/saddlebred and  he 
> was locked up all but an hour a day., Became a weaver,and
> charged, reared, 
> etc.Wouldn't load,(well they tranq. him to get him out
> during hurricanes. 
> Ended up neurotic. He first wouldn't load, then would
> weave and tear the 
> trailer down to get out. They sent him to a trainer who
> specialized with 
> these horses and even used him in a clinic. Good news ,
> he learned to load 
> easy. But "won't stay in" without going bananas"Tried
> everything.She 
> basically has to tranqualize him to take him anywhere.Now
> he was a hard 
> case.
> One of our ponies would paw if we stopped, now my gelding
> is starting to do 
> it.I guess they 'think" they get  to get off if it stops
> sooner.
> I'd try to get him away from the wall for a while, where
> he can't brace.I'm 
> sure he thinks he is falling when you go down hill and he
> feels trapped and 
> panics.Best of luck   Laurie and RAscal
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: "Linda" <Elite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [RC]   Trailering
> > Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:20:20 -0500
> >
> >     We are having a trailering problem with a 9 yo
> gelding we've owned a 
> > little over a year.  Our trailer is a two horse slant
> load with a divider 
> > between the two horses.  The problem is that when we
> haul him and go down 
> > even a slight incline he panics and scrambles with his
> feet.  It is hard to 
> > explain but he is actually scraping up the front wall (
> wall in-between 
> > living quarters and hauling area).  I rode back with him
> to see exactly 
> > what he was doing and he is throwing his body against
> the divider (on his 
> > left) and his feet are climbing the wall on his right
> side.    Sometimes it 
> > is so violent that his left rear leg gets scraped up
> bad.  We have tried 
> > wrapping legs and shipping boots and it just seems to
> make it worse and he 
> > gets them loose enough to try to kick them off too.   He
> doesn't always do 
> > this...  I would say that he did it a little when we
> first got him, then 
> > quit for several months, but has been doing it for on
> and off for the last 
> > several months.   The problem is that I can't figure out
> what is causing it 
> > or what might be different when he is or isn't doing it.
>   He loads very 
> > well... doesn't seem to dislike the trailer, and stands
> fine when we aren't 
> > moving.    The only time I've seen him do this is when
> we are going down 
> > hill.... even slightly.  (And in east TN there is allot
> of hills).  I have 
> > tried creeping down hills and when I hear him panic and
> start banging 
> > around, I stop let him get his composure and then creep
> again.  No luck.    
> > We are considering moving him to the back slot, but am
> concerned that he 
> > would try his maneuver and end up on his side!   Or we
> are considering 
> > taking him in the trailer alone with the gate latched
> open so he doesn't 
> > have anything to lean against.  Or maybe hauling him
> backwards, is that a 
> > possibility?   We really feel sorry for this guy, when
> he gets in these 
> > panic modes he is really scared!    We haul this guy
> quite a bit... and 
> > like I said, sometimes he can go months without it
> happening.   Has anyone 
> > ever seen something like this or have any suggestions?
> >
> > Linda
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