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I agree on:
1. Not a  standard  technique to be used lightly.
2. A proper  way to  stop  agressive  behavior  such as mentioned below.
So, I would not let my wife use a dog shock collar  on my  favorite 
gelding who was wanting 
to mount the mares.  I didnt want him messed up mentaly more than he might
already be, and besides, I didnt want to give her any ideas about using it
for that purpose;
:-)
Keith
Tx Trigger wrote:

> > > > If a horse exhibits a behavior that makes the shock collar a
> > > >        
> consideration, wouldn't it be much better to figure out the WHY of the
> behavior and
> remedy that? <<<
>
>
> I used our dog shock collar on one horse, who would run down our very timid
> gelding in the pasture to take big chunks of skin off by biting him.   WHY
> he did this behavior was simple. The horse is a over bearing jerk, that
> wants to rule the pasture, and found this horse did not stand up for
> himself, so he went after him.  I would have much preferred the horse would
> have stood up for himself and planted a couple nicely place hooves in the
> jerks chest, but he was not gonna do it. So, shock collar on, put them in a
> smaller field, and when Mr. Control freak took off after the other one,
> right as he opened his mouth, and was a few feet from removing hide and
> hair, ZAP. He did not associate it with me. I was standing off near the
> barn. He stopped, and pondered it a bit, then went after him a second time,
> and got a ZAP again. That was all it took. He has been much nicer to him,
> and that was a few years ago that we had the "lesson".
>
> Shock collars with the horses, or dogs need to be fully understood, and used
> at the right moment, and do not work for every circumstance.  With any of my
> other horses, the jerk would have gotten kicked  when chased(thus the pain
> of such). This horse he got a zap for the action (thus pain).
>
> Trying to cure something like pawing, would be very tricky, as the horse is
> usually anxious for some reason, be it left tied alone, or what ever, and
> the zap of a collar would most likely make the horse MORE anxious.  As I
> said,I think they really need to be understood, and not used at random, or
> because it seems "quicker and easier" to just zap them.
>
> Jonni
>
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