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Location: North Dakota | chopchop - 2018-09-19 2:39 PM Yes, I have someone who could help me. But I need to try the one step at a time. Watching the video, I noticed that he only let the horse load front feet first, then back out. I need to try this also.
Yes, this is part of your problem.
You loaded your horse the first time you tried working with her. That should NEVER be your end goal. And shouldn't be for WEEKS.
You need to ask her to put one foot on, one foot off, one thousand times.
Then two feet on, two feet off, one thousand times.
Then three feet.
And by the time you get to four feet, you have now both taught your horse to load and unload at the same time, so they will willingly go on when you ask them, and willingly back off when you ask them.
Don't rush!!! Work on ground work 10-15 min a day and that is plenty. She's only a 3 year old. Most don't have the mental capacity to focus on something for an hour. Their brain is fried (and not learning anymore) by that point.
Again, teach her how you can control each individual foot and place her body exactly where you want it. The trailer is merely an obstacle that you would overcome like any other obstacle ( bridge, logs, etc).
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | 1DSoon - 2018-09-17 7:17 PM
 sounds cliche but make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.Â
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Of all the advice so far, this one actually sums it up best.
That’s the fundamental principle of almost any training, in my opinion, and it’s especially true when teaching a youngster to load properly. I have a feeling that the number of people and/or horses actually hurt or injured because of leading a reluctant, scared horse into a trailer is more than we think. You will get several different, detailed training routines on trailer loading and unloading, but the fundamental principle is making the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. Eventually, the trailer becomes a refuge from pressure.
That’s really what Clinton Anderson is doing here:
https://youtu.be/q3aKWWB9ZMA
Edited by Bear 2018-09-21 8:15 AM
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Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | Bear - 2018-09-21 8:13 AM 1DSoon - 2018-09-17 7:17 PM sounds cliche but make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.
Of all the advice so far, this one actually sums it up best. That’s the fundamental principle of almost any training, in my opinion, and it’s especially true when teaching a youngster to load properly. I have a feeling that the number of people and/or horses actually hurt or injured because of leading a reluctant, scared horse into a trailer is more than we think. You will get several different, detailed training routines on trailer loading and unloading, but the fundamental principle is making the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. Eventually, the trailer becomes a refuge from pressure. That’s really what Clinton Anderson is doing here: https://youtu.be/q3aKWWB9ZMA
Somebody else commented about lunging the horse outside the trailer to make it "hard work" and then resting them in the trailer as reward. And then you commented about making the trailer a refuge from pressure.
Neither of those ideas are quite accurate, as far as CA's training philosophy. I think the confusing issue is that that particular video is of him loading a horse in ONE SESSION at a clinic .... which no normal person does at home. But still, CA teaches to have control of the feet. It is just coincidence that he's asking those feet to go onto the trailer. It's not necessarily about letting the horse rest in the trailer, or making that the refuge; it's more that the horse correctly moved his feet onto the trailer, and that is why he is getting rewarded.
If you can control the feet at all times, then trailer loading is a piece of cake. The trailer is just an obstacle. That obstacle could be a bridge, or a jump, or a blue tarp, or nothiing at all. You are simply training the horse to allow you to put their feet wherever you ask.
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