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[RC] itchy & scratchy - k s swigart

Barbara McCrary said:


I remember years ago, being warned by the ride manager
about not leading one's horse up to the edge of a hot
spring (160 degrees), for fear the horse might decide
to rub on the rider's back and push the rider into the
spring.


Ending up in a hot spring may not be a function of whether your horse is 
allowed to rub on you to scratch.  _I_ have a horse that might shove me into 
the hot spring if I DIDN'T allow her to scratch:).  She has pushed a number of 
people into water troughs because she felt that they weren't paying enough 
attention to her.  Me?  I don't put myself between her and a water trough.

Far better advice than "don't allow your horse to rub on you because you might 
get pushed into a hot spring" is, "don't put yourself between a hot spring and 
a horse, no matter what you may or may not have taught it about rubbing."

kat
Orange County, Calif.

p.s.  This is the same horse that long ago taught me (you can probably find it 
in the Ridecamp archives under a discussion on helmets), "The way to avoid head 
injuries around horses is, don't stick your head between a two year-old and a 
fence post."


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