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Susan (or anyone who vets at rides),
Lets say I DO do my homework and as often as I can I reprimand my horse 
for kicking at other horses and at people.  Now I show up at a ride and 
although better my boy still kicks out because it is nearly impossible 
to re enact the excitement and nervousness that exists at a ride.  He 
kicks out and I have my crop with me just in case so I smack him in the 
chest and back him up.  What is too much reprimand so that I would then 
be possibly scrutinized for being abusive to my horse?  I REALLY wanted 
to reprimand my guy at the Carolina ride but I was sincerely worried of 
what others would say or think if all of a sudden I'm yelling and 
backing my horse.

Kathy SE


Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVM wrote:
> Yes, good point.  There is one ride I vet every year where one specific
> horse repeatedly shows up and is just awful to vet---and is getting past
> "annoying" and approaching "dangerous", more so every year.  For a
> non-horsey volunteer, she is definitely a risk to be around.  The owner has
> been nicely and specifically advised to do her homework and school her
> horse, which to date, she's pretty much shrugged off as "I don't know how to
> make her behave".  This will be the third year and enough's enough---she's
> had fair warning and if it takes a DQ to bring the message home the hard
> way, so be it.  If she injured another horse, rider or volunteer, I would
> feel that were significantly my fault for not having eliminated the
> potential opportunity for injury at the ride.
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 7:31 AM
> To: CTH
> Cc: ridecamp
> Subject: Re: [RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker)
>
> While I agree that a horse that kicks around a vet check at another 
> horse, vet or volunteer should be DQ'ed, I also feel that if this 
> reaction was prompted by the actions of another horse (bitting a horse, 
> banging into the horse, etc.), that horse should also be DQ'ed.  There 
> are a lot of different acts of aggression and none should be tolerated.
>
> There is a huge difference when a horse that kicks just because they 
> don't like the vet raising their tail and a horse that kicks because 
> they are defending themselves from an attack when the horse behind them 
> takes a chomp out of them. In general if a fight breaks out in a human 
> sporting event, both participants are ejected. Makes sense to me that 
> this should also be true for horses at an endurance ride.
>
> Truman
>
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