Re: Manners--was stereotypes

["angela harper" <minpins@hotmail.com>]

>So what is the BEST way to retrain a horse who likes to snatch his >foot 
>away from the farrier? I have one of those. I trim him most of >the year 
>and he's wonderful for just trimming, whether I trim him or a >farrier 
>trims him (natural trims took me about an hour when I first

I had a gelding, Chuy, that liked to play the yank the foot away from the 
farrier game.  He was fine with me messing around with his feet, but always 
protested the farrier, no matter who it was (we tried several different 
guys).  He never tried to kick, although one farrier commented, "He's not 
gonna kick me, but he's sure thinking about it" and I believe his assessment 
was correct.  Anyway, I always twitched him.  I no longer have Chuy, but the 
farrier I have now told us about a horse he had known that had always been 
twitched as a colt to be trimmed, and fifteen years later, as a dead broke 
gelding, refused to have his feet worked on unless he had a twitch on.  The 
twitch didn't even have to be engaged, just hanging on his nose.  Sorta 
makes me wonder if that's what the problem with Chuy was, or something 
similar.

Incidentally, my current farrier did work on Chu a couple of times, and 
always protested when I brought the twitch out for him, apparently 
preferring to spend forty minutes trimming him.

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~angela       www.fatmare.com
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