This message is from: "Denise Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dear marsha jo, i have heard of the "cowboy" method and seen it in books. i wouldn't use it on my horse. a noted clinician was asked about horses that pull, being tied up like this.... (a clinic i attended last summer). he mentioned the method you described and said he had personally seen this done. the horse died from asphyxiation, after pulling back hard enough to faint, then the body weight added more weight and squeezed the girth line even more. obviously this horse wasn't watched while being tied like this. a terrible shame. denise
> The cowboy solution would involve tying up with a lariat. A standard > method for horses that pull back is to put the noose around the > animal's girth with the honda below the chest, then run the rope up > between the front legs, up thru the halter throatlatch, then thru the > tie ring, and finally tie off normally---whatever that means, for a > knot-wise equine! In theory, when Loki starts to back up, the noose > of the lariat will "squeeze" him near where your legs would, > encouraging him to step back up to the tie point, whereupon the noose > loosens again. Never tried this one....
