All horses
like to be ?scratched??.mine will even point out a place for me! He
can?t reach his tail, which is why you see them backed up to a post or barn
scratching. If you scratch gently around the side of his tail and dock,
he will raise his tail in pleasure.
**Sigh.....you
haven't seen our "rubber horse".....BLM mustang who can turn her self inside
out to bite and chew on her own tail. She is giving me fits over that
tail; rubbing it....would have a gorgeous tail. I am trying everything;
right now washing weekly with a good dandruff shampoo seems to help the
most. She gets just awful flakey skin on the very end of the dock.
This mare also produces the gunkiest udder I have ever seen.....after talking
to Heidi and Susan G. and my vets.....what seems to keep the best handle on
that is washing udder weekly with a mix of Novalsen scrub and Dawn dishwashing
liquid. Otherwise she gets the more incredible black chunks between the
teats...also around her vulva. This stuff also makes her itchy.
But hey, any other remedies and opinions also welcomed.
**Also having a
dilemma over the whole butt issue with this mare. I was told some of the
people who helped gentle the mustangs at Burns holding facility would
scratch the butts and tails as a way to gentle the babiess...they loved
it. Ours if the most friendly, people-loving horse. When she
greets you, she will accept a nose of neck stroke.....then tends to swing her
butt towards you hoping for a nice tail scratch. She is not
as
all disrespectful or
agressive in swinging her butt....but hoping the nice human will rub it for
her. For various reasons, this is not acceptable (this horse has
dinner-platter feet and is a hefty gal)...but hard to discipline her for
something not at all disrespectful, and that PEOPLE taught
her!!!
I do agree all horses
should be trailed to allow all parts at that end of the body to be handled by
anyone....
