I have been dutifully practice loading at the end of every session for two weeks running, but there was still a hitch when I went to close the doors. She was difficult to keep on if I messed with the doors or the butt bar. I had hoped that a change of trailer plus some help and we could push through this today. Tracy brought over her slant load last night and I arrived early today and put her on and off a bunch of times. She was getting all feet on no problem and hanging out fairly calm. But when I started playing with the divider, bumping her on the haunches with it, she kept tearing out backwards. Once or twice she took the wrong angle and caught herself good in the back corner of the trailer. Aaargh. Anyway, I made some progress, then gave her a break while I waited for Tracy and Maria to come help me. The three of us spent another 90 minutes and ended up pretty much where we started. So we nixed the trail ride and Maria & I just did some basic work with Maddie around the Pink Barn. I really really really hope the trailer thing doesn't go downhill. It would mess up a whole lotta things. It's hard enough finding trailers to borrow, and having a poor loader just screws all that up. Come on, Maddie! I'm worried that all this incremental loading work will be for naught, and we'll just end up having to cowboy her onto a stock trailer, slam the door, and hope for the best to get to Madison. Not what I had hoped for.
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