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TRAILER

PROBLEMS

FIXING TRAILER PROBLEMS

Getting your horse on the trailer without getting in a fight with him isn't a far off dream. Good training will make transporting your horse a stress-free experience.

Trailer loading is difficult for a lot of horses. The horse is either afraid to go inside the trailer or simply doesn't want to. Both these issues can be solved, though both have different and very individual solutions in each case. There is no perfect "recipe" that will work with every horse.

Fear: if the horse is afraid to go inside the trailer and the person trying to load the horse becomes impatient, the horse is guaranteed to put up a fight. Keep in mind: if you're planning to transport your horse somewhere, and you're not sure he'll load into the trailer, it's too late to start experimenting on the morning of the journey.

If the horse is unsure about the trailer, it's not a hard problem to solve, we just need to show him that there's nothing in there to be afraid of, load him into the trailer many times and let him unload when he feels like it.

The quality of driving makes a lot of difference! If the driver pulling the horse trailer doesn't consider the horse or just doesn't care, accelerates, brakes, turns suddenly, or goes too fast in the roundabout, the horse will not want to load into the trailer the next time.

If the horse is afraid because of bad experiences, it takes a lot longer to get over that fear. The horse can get bad experinces while loading into the trailer, unloading from the trailer, on the trailer during transport, or the place where he was first taken to in a trailer.

Every problem has a unique solution, as in, with every horse that is afraid, we need to find the source of his fear and work on exactly that.

If the horse is not afraid, simply doesn't want to load into the trailer, the problem is almost every time a lack of respect. There are some horses as well, who have realised if they don't load, they don't need to load.

Groundwork can solve almost every case of loading problems.

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