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Tomorrow is day 3 of my gentle approach with lots of praise as each step goes further in and treats and food at the end of it, as soon as she is in though she starts breathing heavy and stressing quite bad and wants to get out quick this is where my safety then becomes an issue!! Yesterday was...

she arrived in a lorry no travel boots or rug they said she may rush off but she did not she seemed fine, they did say they had never used a trailer though and was unaware what she would be like but they had trouble loading her in a lorry but after a couple of goes and a shout and a hit with a...

Yes agree would feel bad but horses love to run around and its not yours or your horses fault and if the other horse has not been ridden for ages they should have been more aware of that kind of thing happening. Anyway its not your fault

Is there any kind of herbal travel calmer to make it smoother for the horses (and us)?????

She also dragged me off the trailer this morning and was so strong I could not hold her back she had on a bridge with the lead rope threaded through the bottom section but was just so strong as soon as she was off she stopped but it did scare me this morning I thought I was going to go flying!

Thats what I am worrying about getting half way up the road and her starting in the trailer! If they start is it best to stop or just drive back home. Our old pony did not make a fuss this is all new to me!

I bought a cob x for my daughter they said she has problems loading, I did not realise how bad, I am doing the gently gently approach and getting her on gradually but she stresses once on and when I get her off she is very strong and barges off my main concern is whether she will stress out...