Re: Re: Panic Attack - Long

["Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@cruzio.com>]

I use a Woolback pad, and I also use a mounting block.  Have him trained to
move right up to it and wait for me to mount.  It's great!

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy C Trumbull" <elsie@foothill.net>
To: "RideCamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Panic Attack - Long


>
>
> Barbara McCrary wrote:
> >
> > I have a 7 year old who is "cinchy", too....
> > ...Some people have suggested claustrophobia,
> > caused by the girth tightening around his belly.
>
> Isn't there a nerve or something that runs in the cinch area?
>
> Another thought, but probably not the problem here - if you
> use a pad with open-cell foam inserts, they take a while to
> warm up and take the horse's shape and smoosh down - so
> although you may know that your horse's cinch is tight
> on hole 3 (or whatever), until the pad smooshes down,
> hole 2 may be super-tight.
>
> I use a SS with a Toklat or Skito with 3/4" inserts. My
> gelding is cinchy (in as much as he'll pull faces and
> snap), so I've started cinching him the same way Marlene
> describes. Once the pad warms up and smooshes down, though,
> I can usually tighten it at least one or two holes more.
>
> I tend to use a mounting block (log/truck/step) to get on,
> just so's I don't have to try and yank it tight to begin
> with (while the pad is still in it's fully expanded cool
> state).
>
>
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