Lol. That's the thing. She is VERY food-oriented, and sometimes that does work. Yesterday she had been giving me trouble, and followed my friend right on with a rustly bag she was curious about, lol. But if she doesn't want to, particularly when she knows she's going in to go back home, or some other reason I haven't figured out yet (lol), food ain't going to do anything except get her whiffing the air and maybe putting her front feet in, and stretching her neck as far as it will go, hehe.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Kathy Mayeda <klmayeda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm sure this was one of the first things that was tried! Food bribes didn't work for either of my horses. When you resort to butt ropes, I'm sure a lot of things were tried first!
Appears to me she is just messin' with you guys. I had a gelding that would do this and it didn't matter who was trying to load him. He would just turn into a donkey and that was that. The only thing that ever truly worked was to appeal to his appetite and get a bucket of his favorite goodies and walk right past him with it, then stick it in the far corner of the front of the trailer (of course, letting him get a good whiff of it first). Worked like a charm every time. Sometimes, all that fancy schmancy methodical training is just too tedious and you gotta do what you gotta do.
~Carrie <\_~ // \\
"The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
