Day 66 with my wild Mustang

11-12-2025: Day 66 with my wild baby Mustang, Taavi!

We worked on my favorite thing today… Trailer loading! We have some field trips coming up, so I wanted to get more practice in. This time I left Shimmy tied to the trailer while we did everything. We practiced loading him in each of the 3 spots with the dividers closed. This boy cracked me up! He must have been in a goofy mood because he was playing trick pony. His first trick was backing into the front spot and then when I went to shut the divider he put his head under, lifted the divider up and out of its slot, and then just stood there without panicking with the divider on his back. The next time he did just fine and then we moved onto the middle slot. Middle slot had zero shenanigans, so we moved to the end slot. He didn’t load right away, but was very chill about everything. I think he didn’t want to do his fancy loading because Shimmy wasn’t in the middle slot and that made zero sense to him, which I get! I opened the middle divider so he had more room and he loaded right up. For his second trick I was able to send him in from 5 feet away and then from 10 feet away (just his front feet this time). He was having a blast with this! And somehow he has taught himself not to come out of the trailer until I take the lead rope off his neck. I’m just going with it. He’s so smart! #mustang #baymustang #blmmustang #wildmustang #wildhorse