well i tried to clip my horses bridle path and shes okay with the buzzing noise but is TERRIFIED of the sound that it makes when your shaving the hair. shes freaks when i try to clip her bridle path or whiskers. help!!
His ears? Your trainer twitched the horse on the ears? No wonder. They are not for use anywhere other than the upper lip. And then only in short doses.Gingerrrrr said:okay my old horse was ruined because he was twitched by his trainer...you couldnt even touch his ears and he would flip. i think twitchs are cruel and evil. id never twitch a horse ever..
tim said:His ears? Your trainer twitched the horse on the ears? No wonder. They are not for use anywhere other than the upper lip. And then only in short doses.Gingerrrrr said:okay my old horse was ruined because he was twitched by his trainer...you couldnt even touch his ears and he would flip. i think twitchs are cruel and evil. id never twitch a horse ever..
Gingerrrrr said:At the barn where I started, the owner used to put those black plastic clamps on the horses' ears for twitching. You know... these things:tim said:yea we figured he was twitched because there were scars all over his ears and he would barely let us touch them but my friend told me that hes finally letting people touching his ears.
I use twitches, but I draw a line when people use improper devices on improper places. Thats when I get ******.
tim said:Gingerrrrr said:At the barn where I started, the owner used to put those black plastic clamps on the horses' ears for twitching. You know... these things:tim said:yea we figured he was twitched because there were scars all over his ears and he would barely let us touch them but my friend told me that hes finally letting people touching his ears.
I use twitches, but I draw a line when people use improper devices on improper places. Thats when I get ******.
what the F*** alrite i dont even know this person and that ****** me off. horses dont need to have that crap put on there ears to be disciplined. honestly if your going to tourcher a horse with that use a twitch instead and DO IT THE RIGHT WAY although im against twitches seeing what it did to my old pony.....but thats just me...
tim said:I think if the nose twitch doesn't work, then rather than twitching something else, you should just drug them.
or becuase it costs more then twitching and they want a way to do it without having to go through a whole process with injecting them. people like that make me sick...Supermane said:I think they ear twitch race horses because they don't want to drug them. Disgusting practice.
I'm in agreement with you Ginger, twitches are evil. My one horse was not too bad about being clipped, but the other one just couldn't take it. So the trainer that I took lessons from, twitched her and got the job done. When I quit taking lessons and came to a point where I thought I wanted to just clean her up, the anxiety problem came up. And because I want her to trust me, and respond to me in confidence, I couldn't rationalize "twitching/hurting" her to get the job done. Particularly since she was so head-shy and that took such a long time to get over. Just didn't make sense. Sort of like telling your little kids not to take candy from strangers, but then sending them to the door of strangers to ask for candy.Gingerrrrr said:okay my old horse was ruined because he was twitched by his trainer...you couldnt even touch his ears and he would flip. i think twitchs are cruel and evil. id never twitch a horse ever..