Use of restraint [My Broken Jaw & Arabian Stereotypes]

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 08:07 PM 6/16/01, Marlene wrote:
>I had a vet/chiropractor recently suggest using a lip chain on my horse.

I have a simple and easy to understand rule that I apply to the use of 
restraint on horses, especially any that causes pain:  If I wouldn't do it 
to a human child under the same sort of circumstances, I won't allow it to 
be done to my horse. I'm not saying there's never a place for restraint, 
even the painful kind, just that with my rule, there's lots less fuss, muss 
and trauma.  Vets and other practitioners can be replaced.  A horse's 
memory of a rotten experience is notoriously difficult to undo.

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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