[RC] teaching to tie with belly rope...NOT - sherman
I’ve
successfully and without any rope burns, scars, or marks on any of my horses
have used the belly rope method on confirmed sit-down, fall-over, lay there ‘til
the rope/halter/post breaks pullers. Like most methods, there is a right way
& a wrong way to do it, right equipment & wrong equipment used. It required
a thick soft cotton rope to be used, and a trainer who’s knowledgeable
and not just trying to punish the horse.
Kathy
I
know that for as long as horses have been taught to tie, and not set = back,
folks have been using the rope around the horses girth/body, and = up through
the halter ring, and tied off. If anyone ever wants to see = the scars/ areas
of no hair that start up near my horses withers, and = trickle all the way down
to under his girth area, I can show them to = you. His breeder sent him out for
some "lessons", and things obviously = did not go well. When I got
this horse, he was scared of his own lead = rope. This is not a method I'd
recommend to anyone, after seeing what = happened with my gelding before I
bought him. But, it is a method that = has been used for as long as I can
remember.
