Re: halters

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

We turned a mule out with her halter on...she tried to scratch behind her
ear with her rear foot...the halter got caught up in the shoe and she broke
her neck.

----- Original Message -----
From: JOLYNN MAYNARD <jolmayna@whitepine.k12.nv.us>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: RC: halters


> I don't ever leave halters on horses even in a corral.  Horses seem to be
> born to be self destructive anyway and I see leaving halters on as asking
> for trouble.  Had a friend that lost a foal still on its moma.  Had the
> mare and foal at a horse show, won the championship, got home very late
> and put the mare and foal in a large stall for the night with the halter
> on the foal.  The foal caught the halter on something in the stall and he
> found it with a broken neck in the morning still connected to the stall by
> the halter!
>
> Then another person I know left halter on in a pasture the horse put his
> foot through the halter, panicked, and managed to kill himself before
> anyone noticed.  Why take a chance?  Not me, for surely with my luck my
> horse would get caught some how.
>
>
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