This message is from: "Meredith Sessoms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Meredith, just one thing for beginners about tying a horse to a tree. I had >an anglo/thoroughbred who wore a very distinctive scar behind his ears where >the halter rope had cut through his flesh as he went wild fighting the tree. Aagot surprised me the other day by slipping out of her nylon rope halter, the kind that is made from one piece. She has never fought her halter before. I was giving her a bath so I had tied it kinda loose so I could scrub around her ears and she was wet, soapy and slippery. She had never fought her halter before - she just backed up, stretched out and braced against it like a little donkey and out she popped!!!!! Thank heavens we I had found a large section of scrap carpet to have her stand on to prevent mud and splashed mud so we were under the tracter shed. The shed is within the fence line. I had considered bathing her on he carport because the garage roof is held up by stout metal poles and it is on concrete. But had she got loose there she could have run out into the road. Thank goodness I changed my mind. I try to remember the rules - when you are tying a horse up with an unbreakable nylon or rope halter or to an unbreakable post or tree, use a knot you can untie quickly. My husband just taught me to tie with a half hitch, I find it to be handy knot with those thick colored nylon leads, I double it and leave the looped end behind instead of pulling it all the way through. It tightens instantly when the horse pulls on it and can be untied with one tug. I can't believe it - I'm sitting here at my 'puter, drinking my coffee watching my horse scratching her back on the peach tree. Problem is, she's fenced away from the peach tree! Let me go check this out! She had been eating the tall grass under the tree and slipped under the electric tape fence. She's full of surprises this week, she hasn't slipped under an electric fence in two years! The electric fence is only used to define boundaries within a wire mesh fence and hasn't been turned on for months. Looks like it's time to turn it on until all the fruit has fallen and gone away. She hasn't shown any interest in peaches but I hear they are poisonous to horses. It took a minute for me to convince her to walk under the strand as I held it high over our heads with much kissing and clucking and "It's alright Sweety"'s, although she had to have gone under it with it touching her back!!!!! Funny girl!!!!! .>>>.<<<. Meredith Sessoms .>>>.<<<. Tooksend Art .>>>.<<<. Moulton . Alabama . USA
