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Re: [RC] horses:dirnking vs. swimming - Born Country

My son's horse LOVES the water and will roll in it any
chance she gets, with or without a rider.  As soon as
my son feels her legs start to buckle, he gooses her
to get her moving.  Mind, this doesn't always work. 
There have been a couple of times she went down so
fast he didn't have a chance to respond and just got
an unexpected bath while we got some entertainment!

Esther

--- Laurie Durgin <ladurgin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

   About the drinking thread. Rascal had dunk some
in training rides, but 
one paticularily hot humid day after and hour or so
we had a small creek to 
cross(the kind that are 'rivers' in texas' :}   .
   Anyway,he started flinging his head in circles
like he was playing in the 
water(or maybe the 'flowing water'  was tickling his
nostrils ),Then he 
actually went down in a belly flop,I was left
standing with wet feet.
Now I am used to letting him drop his head to cross
water and smell  it, 
never a problem, but the next time he started the
swirlly thing I pulled his 
head up (it was only about 1/2 hour out) he tried to
pull it down, I let him 
for a minute, but he did the swirlly thing. I
thought he was thinking about 
going down again, so I pullled him up aghain.

Now I realised I may have just discouraged him from
drinking. Does anyone 
have a  problem like this?
     Other than jerking them up, how do you stop
them from 'swimming" (it's 
only about 18"  deep) and taking them with you?
    How do you 'let them play enough to start
drinking" or know if it's 
"down' time? Or should I just "whack em" if he goes
down"? And expect I may 
get a few baths?

     Laurie/Rascal who has had the whole summer off
with epm first, then a 
hoof absess, who may now (with shoes back on front)
will start slow rehab as 
soon as the weather drops out of the 90's., Honey
who is now trotting under 
saddle, Scout who is just growing and hanging out..
. .



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