Trailer Progress

We're making progress on the trailer issue. For the past couple days, I've opened up the trailer, thrown a bit of grass inside, and then just parked Dublin outside the trailer and brushed him, cleaned his feet, moved him around, etc. When he got curious about the grass, I let him explore. Of course, he's big, and he can really lean inside that 2-horse trailer and get a lot of the grass without putting a foot inside! But that's OK. Eventually I got inside and from there, asked him to back up, come forward, yield his hindquarters and forequarters sideways, and finally asked him to put a foot in the trailer. Which he did, and then the other front foot. For that, he got a treat and was allowed to just stand that way. Then I asked him to back out, and he did, nice and quiet. We repeated one more time and quit. Today, we did pretty much the same, then I did a little "driving" around the driveway (I don't mean in the trailer, I mean I drove him from his hindquarters!). Eventually I drove him up to the trailer and again asked him to put a foot in. He dodged a bit, which was actually fine--then the correction wasn't about going in the trailer, it was about not ducking away from me. Then he put both front feet in and stood there. I asked him to back out and we called it a day.

I did some groundwork and riding first and we had a little photo session. Here's a couple pics. I'll try for some video next time (now that I have figured out how to set the camera for video).