Problem With Your Horse?

[ClissaT]

The incredible pain that horse must be suffering on it's nose mostly is overriding it's fear of the float. Is that anyway to teach a horse? It is cheating & lazy to use 'devices' to force a horse!

It's just as easy to teach a horse to load without anything on it's head if it trusts it's handler. My horses LOVE my float.

Work with your horse's mind to solve all it's issues & help it understand what we are asking of it so it wants to be your partner.

[clairepalmer83]

At 27 seconds, you can see the horse react as if he's about to experience pain (Widened eyes and an attempt to move away from the handler) He also looks depressed while he's standing there. Also at 44 seconds, he put the forward cue and the horse responded by sticking his head out and not moving his feet. This tells me that "bumping him on the chin" doesn't envourage him to move forward. This device is a vice between the nose adn the sensative part under the jaw.

[CaseyHorses]

No offence but seriously, this headstall is legit a joke.

it puts painful pressure on the horse, and there is easier, less stressful ways to load the horse.

your video is truely wretched

[azzie35]

I stupidly bought this horrible headstall a few years ago when I didn't know enough. It's horrible. Its extremely painful for the horse. IT puts extreme pressure on the most sensitive parts on his face. The bottom line with this junk headstall is that it's putting extreme pain on the horse's face... so much that the horse would rather go against what it perceives as safety than suffer any longer. This is one of the most cruel and old fashioned pieces of tack that an owner can buy..

[GoodRedBlackRatio]

@azzie35 Did you not see how gentle the ques were for this horse? This is a head stall for someone with soft hands only, not someone who jerks the reins.

[WTELtd]

It is not surprising that the horse won't load into the trailer with the partitions - it is way too small and low for that horse and he knows it. He won't be able to balance himself and has probably hit his head on the top before.

The horse has more sense than the owner.

The open traile is much higher and he knows that he has space.

[Fortglory]

We love this headstall, Our mare who has all ready crippled her last owner for life breaking his spine after running him over , and was a danger to all just , came home after 30 days training with it and is a calmer, sweeter, safer, and honestly different horse.  For those that say it is inhumane the creator of it Rick Wheat has been awarded 3 times by the Humane society for making a cruelty free way of dealing with problem horses.

[LetsJustRideAway]

could I use clips from this video [when you were first trying to load him] for a video I'm making of horses rearing/bucking? Full credit will be given you to!

[happyhunter1]

Bull shit! Couldnt load him into the blue trailer with the partition though could he! Most will go into a big open stock trailer. Lets see you get him into the hitched trailer with the partition that he pissed about with at the start.

[AnimalQueenful]

I have helped a horse befor who hate loading what i did was openthe front door and made it look less like a prison cell and after 2 hours of practice i never had trobule agian

[DKBlueGirl]

Why force the horse into the trailer with a very strong bridle ( works like a hackamore ) when it so clearly shows that it does not like it and is affraid? It does not do it for fun - its brain can't think that way.

What about finding out WHAT the horse does not like and train it slowly. If i were a horse i would quiestion to go in there to - big animal, so little space and dark - not the first thing at horse would choose.

Andrew McClean has done reach in horse behavior about that.

[myprophet1]

study operant conditioning, better known as clicker trng. The horse CHOOSES at liberty. No halter, ropes, or uncomfortable psuedo bosals. No fear, no force, no pain, just happy games. Try it, you'll both like it!

[SpeedJumper15]

Do you have any pointers for kicking in the trailer?

[BarebackRider13]

this is amazing :) it made me cry because I know exactly how that woman feels. you're an incredible horseman. xxx

[Sunnytrigger]

I am having problems training my friends quarter horse. He gets into the trailer with a little fight, and looks calm in there. But then suddenly he zooms backwards out of the trailer nearly killing himself on the way out. Also, when he is comfortable in there and is about to be hauled, he rears straight up in the trailer and gets on top of the hay rack trying to escape through the small window. How can I stop him from rearing inside the trailer?

[cwgrlsdntcry]

when i first watched this video i thought i was watching a remake of my last time trying to load my 20 month old colt at the vet, he was a stud colt that i bought a few months before who'd never been handled, and it turned into a rodeo that wound up sending one lady to the hospital and took us 2 days to finally get him in the trailer, would this method work for him as well?

[Agilitypoodle385]

My pony brigg hates trailers, my yard think it has smething to do with a bad expiriance but i dont know.... he rears, bucks, kickes, bites all to stop you from making him go in.... he never does it normally, only when you ask him to load.... any tips are kindly appreciated cos i really want to take him to a show

[MyHorseElliot]

my friend has a problem with loading her horse, shes an AM mare and she refuses to get in the trailer, ive been trying to help, but nothing is working

[bootswitdafur14]

My one 3yr old mare loads on our gooseneck perfectly fine and turns around but once you ask her to back into the spot she locks her knees like when they sleep and she does not like pressure on her nose. advice?

[becpete14]

can the novol be put on any horse and use it or what i really wont one dont know were i can get one and my horse has never had one one can i just use it streaght away and ride ???????????????/

[lunanightwolf]

I would like to get some advice as well. I have an 8 year old spotted saddle horse mare. She has a problem with trying to bite and move when I'm trying to groom her. She started bitting after she had her filly I understand that. But I want it to stop. She has always moved when I have tried to groom her. Any advice on how to get her to stand still with her filly around?

[justwatchthedamvideo]

every time she moves make it her idea send her around in a circle a few times then try it again if she moves again send her around again, it will take a while at first but once she gets the picture she should stand still for you

i know i had the same problem with a little pony who also had a learning problem and i bit of a sketchy history

[MiniatureHorseLvrs]

I would like to get some advice. I have a Quarab mare who is 8 years old and ridden western most of the time. She has a couple problems. One is that when I am on her, she will not stand in place, she wants to move and she does these baby steps trying to move. She also wants to go faster when I want her to walk or trot and she gallops when I want her to canter. She also has a bad time standing still when I tie her up, she moves everywhere. The last major one is that she paces, so annoying, tips??