RE: Cribbing

[Angie Orr <aorr@GPS.com>]

Katie wrote:
	 I would
	turn the horse out on large acreage with grass, if at all
possible. 
	Bored horses tend to do it(picture yourself locked in a closet
all day,
	day after day.  Mightn't you pick up some annoying habit?).  We
tend to
	keep our horses in tiny, convenient places and forget that they
are
	horses and tiny and convenient is not their natural state of
being.  Not
	a slam, many people have no choice, but I think your horse is
voicing
his opinion of his lifestyle.

 I just wanted to clarify that I do NOT keep my horse in his stall.  He
goes in at 11:00 to get his grain  and out by 12:00.  He comes in to his
stall for me to brush him and if I'm going riding to get tacked.