Re: [RC] re: trailer loading/unloading - Dyane Smith
I think that's true for many horses. I have a horse
that is "world famous" for being hard to load. I used to have to hire
people to haul him. One showed up in a step-up stock trailer. Sun
loved it. When he got home, the trailer was rocking back and forth.
Sun waited until the trailer was more or less level and hopped out.
I guess though this gives support to Jim's idea that you
have to teach loading. Because my horse really assesses the
situation. He can hate the trailer, but if he wants to go bad enough, he
deals with it. If he doesn't, you have to deal.
Our one horse that refuses to load into a 2-horse
straight load will cheerfully hop into a big livestock trailer and tie to the
side rail. So, for him, it's not the stepping up, but the
claustrophobia.
