Re: [RC] Getting in the trailer - Ed & Wendy Hauser
With a horse half in and half out of a trailer is
not the time or place to enforce dominance by using force on a horse. Do
that somewhere else before teaching trailer loading. Teaching dominance and
respect is best done by using the methods of any of the "natural horsemanship"
trainers, not by force.
If restrained forcibly, a horse is likely to
panic. That is where the horrible accidents, some of which have been
recounted in this thread, happen. I have been there in the '70's. I
was lucky, I was only somewhat trampled and the horse only needed a few
stitches.
Since I joined the kindler, gentler world of
trailer training, I have trained around 10 horses to load with absolutely no
fights, and no injuries.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower
Road Victor, MT 59875
