Loading and standing in a lorry at comps... Wwyd?!

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Arniebear

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My lovely stubborn warmblood has now decided he no longer wants to load! He was absolutly fine then he went in the lorry 3 days in a row for lessons and xc schooling and a comp and since then he has decided he doesnt want to load! Grrrrr! He hasnt had a bad run or anything all the journeys were short 40 mins max and he was perfectly behaved when ridden!! Also he wont stand on a lorry alone!! We dont tie up outside and we have no tie up rings anyway so all our horses have to stay on board or get dragged around by me!! He will stand if he has company but as soon as his company leaves (different classes!) he kicks hell out of the lorry to the point where last time it was safer to take him off and drag him around with me than leave him!! So help!! How do i get him to load again?! And how do i get him to chill out when others leave him on the lorry?!!

Loading wise he plants at the bottom of the ramp and when he decides will walk up people behind him make no difference although he will follow u anywhere with food!!! He did have his dinner on there tonight- is it just a thing of feeding him on there every eve?!!

And as for standing on the lorry a haynet makes no difference!!

:) i have jelly babies!!
 
One of mine (Biz) used to get agitated when his companion was taken off the lorry so either someone would have to stand with him or we would have to unload him and lead him around.

As a result of one of my other horses going lame Biz ended up going out on his own for a few months and now he doesn't worry if his companion is taken off the lorry although we do unload him with his companion and then reload him.

He too went through a stage in the early days of planting at the bottom of the ramp. Plenty of practice at home has solved the problem. If he wouldn't go up the ramp we made him step backwards as soon as he started to plant and then led him forward again, repeating as often as necessary until he would walk up the ramp. We felt it was important to keep his feet moving even if it was in the wrong direction.
 
I found mine kicks up when a horse is taken off the lorry without him but is ok if both are taken off then the other horse is taken away for class or take him away whilst other horse leaves. Then walked him about a bit and then bunged back on lorry with haynet. It was seeing the horse leave which upset him.

No problem loading though.
 
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