In a message dated 3/27/2006 7:45:46 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Interesting how a "drinking problem" in horses can be .......
pernicious
I remember pulling up to the first real water at
Big Horn one year.
Ranger and I pulled up, I jumped off, slacked cinch, he
lowered his head and drank, while I fumbled around for my 60cc syringe and
electrolytes.
A young lady sitting on a panting horse (who had arrived
at the water tank some time before me) asked, "How DO you get your horse to
drink...mine just won't, I'm thinking I have to get rid of him?"
I said, "I'd start by getting off of him and
slackening your cinch," I replied.
She said, "But then, I won't be able to get back
on him."
I didn't say it, but I wanted to tell her to take
her horse home and train him to be mounted.
Point being, often a "drinking problem" is not so
much a "drinking problem" as it is something else.
