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I've seen belly ropes used successfully with foals (and there is good reason not to tie young foals by the head), but they aren't a very good "rehab" method for adults, IMO.

 

With spoiled adults, there is no substitute for going back to the basics with rope work--tying legs up, hobbling, etc.--all of which needs to be done in a safe place.

 

Heidi

I know that for as long as horses have been taught to tie, and not set back, folks have been using the rope around the horses girth/body, and up through the halter ring, and tied off. If anyone ever wants to see the scars/ areas of no hair that start up near my horses withers, and trickle all the way down to under his girth area, I can show them to you. His breeder sent him out for some "lessons", and things obviously did not go well. When I got this horse, he was scared of his own lead rope. This is not a method I'd recommend to anyone, after seeing what happened with my gelding before I bought him. But, it is a method that has been used for as long as I can remember.

 

Jonni in TX

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