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On horses that approach the trailer just fine but stop and stand 
looking in it sometimes helps to just lift and set a front hoof 
inside the trailer and then wait and the horse will decide to get in. 
Maybe the reverse procedure will work. Try to pick up and set a rear 
hoof outside the trailer?

Does your trailer have a rubber bumper across the back to prevent leg 
injury? Very important IMHO.

Don Huston


At 07:28 AM 4/16/2009 Thursday, Nancy Sturm wrote:
> How do I teach him it is okay to back out, that I would never let 
> him fall into the
> > abyss?
>
>
>
> And he backs well under other circumstances?  I think I'd do what 
> Pat Parelli calls the yo yo game and I always think of as the cha 
> cha cha.  I have Hunter step forward and backward for varying 
> numbers of steps, sort of like dance partners.
>
> If he's doing that well, I wonder if you could find other places to 
> back him that would require him to step down a level?  We don't have 
> curbs here of course, but something like curbing?  A landscape 
> feature, railroad ties?
>
> Nancy
>
>
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