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Your horse is the kind one can use a keeper on without fear for your life.
That's where I would use dog collars that buckle on firmly.  Warning!
Disclaimer:  Don't try this with a horse that won't tolerate something
dragging and banging around his foot.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Perez" <walkergirl@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: [RC] re: never lose an easy boot again


>   I have used the keepers.  One nice side-affect is that the
> minute my horse lost a boot with the keeper on, he stopped dead
> when he felt the boot flapping around, so I knew something was
> wrong... without the keepers he just kept on trucking and I
> would have no clue where the boot had come off.
>
>   The problem I had with them is that in wet, yucky footing, the
> keeper got wet and the velcro failed, so neither Cy nor I kew
> anything was amiss, so I lost the boot any way.  If I use them
> again, I think I will modify them so something in addition to
> the velcro is hoding them in place. Wet velcro just dones not
> seem to hold.
>
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