RE: Dealing with girthy horses/ponies

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Either it's some kind of body soreness, or memory of body soreness (or bad
girthing techniques).  Have an equine practitioner check to make sure that
he doesn't have some muscle spasms and/or alignment problems in that area,
first.  Then work on behaviour.  Once the pain goes away, the behaviour
thing seems to go away anyway, at least that's been my experience.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Qualconcep@aol.com [mailto:Qualconcep@aol.com]
Sent:	Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:57 AM
To:	ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject:	RC:  Dealing with girthy horses/ponies

Just curious as to how others have dealt with a girthiness problem that
either developed or was inherited.  I am considering a pony for my
daughter
and the only vice the little guy has is that he is girthy...enough so
that at
7, she is too young/small to deal with it.  The owner says she goes
slow,
keeps the chaos down to a dull roar, and feeds him carrots when he is
still.
All well and good, but does someone know how to eventually get rid of
this
behavior?  The pony is a 13 yr. old Shetland and is otherwise well
trained.
Thanks a lot.

Kristi in Maryland


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