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heidi larson wrote:
> Doesn't seem to really matter what you use, an accident can
> happen, it's just a matter of reducing your odds. 
>   
That is the bottom line. If there is a way to get into trouble a horse 
will find it.
> I've now got panels, but I know they won't stop my horse if
> he's freaked out enough and decides he needs to get away. 
> I sleep with one ear open and clothed so that I don't
> offend neighbors should I have to make a hasty exit from my
> trailer and rescue my boy or someone else's wayward equine!
>   
Come down to the SE - we won't care if you are buck nekkid when you go 
out to fetch your horse. In fact you might get more help that way :-P ! 
(Howard sent me that comment).

In reality there is no fool proof method. The one thing I haven't seen 
mentioned is training at home. We expect horses to behave in the vet 
line, not kick poor Susan at PS rides and at SE rides Otis will kick 
them back. We expect them to behave in a crowd at watering holes. We 
expect them not to tail gate. However, no one has mentioned them being 
trained to camp - independent of how they are secured. If they are going 
to be kept in an electric pen - the first time to try it is NOT at a 
ride. If they are going to be high tied - well don't throw that sucker 
on the trailer right before you leave for a ride and work out the kinks 
there.

Training to camp well is just as important as any other part or training 
for an endurance ride. My horses are always trained to camp long before 
they ever see an endurance ride.

Truman
--

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended 
from man." H.L. Mencken


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