My horse is 15 and never staked out in the past. Tried to educate him when I first got him but it was a disaster even tho I've trained plenty of others. He's just had some horrible experience before I got him that no amount of desensitizing can undo. If we'd had the financial option to keep our trailer when we first retired we would have and used it for the horse camping and added the TC to use as we do now just for the extra space but alas economics and Uncle Sam had other plans for those funds. So here we are and is all good after all. Each of us had to find what we're comfortable with.
