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Re: [RC] Training Horses Not To Pee in Trailer (was trailer question) - heidiIn a message dated 5/12/2004 10:22:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:If your horses are not trained not to urinate in the trailer,Ok, I'm curous...how does one do this? My gelding will not pee in the trailer unless his eyeballs are floating and he's about to explode. <G> We make sure to stop about every 4 hours or so on long trips to let the horses out to pee, stretch, etc. When we do stop and let him out, he'll immediately pee. The one and only time he's done it in the trailer is during a 5 1/2 hr trip home after a ride, when I had a killer migraine and just drove straight through. Poor guy was just so hydrated he couldn't hold it. Our other horses, however (esp. the geldings), have no reservations about peeing in the trailer. We don't put shavings down. Any tips for teaching the others to "hold it?" Gee, as one who rarely has trips SHORTER than 5-6 hours, I'm THRILLED when my horses pee in the trailer, and I tell them "good boy, good boy" to encourage them when I hear them going when the trailer is stopped at gas stations! I can't imagine why anyone would train a horse NOT to pee any time he felt like it... :-) Heidi ============================================================ Many of the endurance riders in our top echelons of competition, now and in the past, exemplify the 'common man' not the hierocracy. It is this possibility, this chance to come to the fore, that makes endurance competition of the Aussie/American type so much more desirable to part of the world. ~ Bob Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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