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How to Train Your Horse To Trailer Load
If you're having trouble loading your horse, I strongly suggest the investment of $4.99 in my trailer-training course.
- Download and print from your home computer
- 5 days, 5 chapters
- Learn at your own pace
An excerpt from Trailer Training: An Easy guide to the Proven Methods of John Lyons:
The Horse Just Wants to Dance Around at the End of the Lead Rope
If you get the feeling that you're not holding a horse so much as a kite buffeted by strong winds, try a series of rapid disengagements of his hind end. The horse is driven forward by his rear end, so removing them from the equation will put you in control. See Day One.
The Horse Looks Away, Then Pulls In That Direction
This behavior is what we learned to quash with our Day Two exercises. We over-practiced on that day to arm us against just this sort of situation. If you approach the trailer, leading from the horse's left side, only to have him look off to the right, then drag you away (or run away), then you'll need to nip it the bud before the horse gains the advantage and you get nasty rope burns. You'll find quickly that once he gets his neck bent too far, you're toast. He can easily out pull you at that point. Allowing that to happen a few times quickly teaches the horse to dodge away seconds before loading.
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Other available courses include:
Stop Bucking (reviews)
Round Pen: First Steps (reviews)
Rein In Your Horse's Speed (For Owners of Nervous or Bolting Horses) (reviews)
