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Re: [RC] [RC] Getting in the trailer - Laurie Durgin

" The old man said, "If you pick a fight with a horse, you always will get one,""Mark Rashids book "Horses Never Lie"


From: "Ed & Wendy Hauser" <ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Carol" <cstiles@xxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   Getting in the trailer
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:47:19 -0600

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

ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx
406.642.6490

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