" I looked
at her and said "He didn't get away did he? and he= stopped didn't he?
She said yes but he will have rope burns, I= told her to go look at him
because he wouldn't have a burn, she= declined to look and walked away
muttering."
Well last week
I went and caught my mare , put her rope halter on and tied her to the trailer
as I always do to saddle . Saddled her up , went to clean her feet and started
with her left front and she started leaning on me , after a couple of "Ruff
stand up" I went to set her foot down to get a better grip and she pulled back
and hit the end her leadrope and just lost it . She would jump forward and then
would sit down pulling and shaking her head just fighting the whole time , I
stepped back and let her fight for a couple minutes and then she finally threw
herself to the ground with her head hanging about two feet off the ground . I
couldn't budge the leadrope so reached into my trailer , grabbed a knife and cut
the leadrope . She stood up shaking her head and had burned her head from one
check across the poll to the other with her "Parelli" halter . My mare is a 7
yr.old has never before in her life pulled back when tied . I believe that when
she pulled back at first the rope halter "bit" her on the poll and the fight was
on . Usually I use a web halter on her for tying which is what I went back to
after taking her out for a ride , hopefully that was her first and last
experience with pulling back . But just an example that not all horses like or
respect the rope halter , I will still use it as always I will just never tie
with it again .
