Re: RC: Re: Re: Pulling Back

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/20/99 5:03:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
pam-john@ma.ultranet.com writes:

<<  If you haven't owned your horse since it was a youngster there may
 be things in his past that prevent him from ever learning to tie. (mine
 leads fine) >>

Pam, this is very true.  The sad part is that those incidents in their pasts 
are generally from people ignoring the very same safety rules that have been 
discussed here--either tying to things that will break and can be dragged or 
tying with equipment that will break.  We had a mare at the ranch when I was 
a kid that was  one of these--she had been beaten senseless by a corral pole 
that had come off of a fence when she had set back as a young horse before we 
owned her.  Since all we did was use her as a ranch horse, we were able to 
get by with never tying her up.  Sadly, that is not an option for many 
horses--hence a horse that has been abused in this way may be limited in what 
homes are available to it.

Heidi


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