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| I have a three year old and much of this I feel contributes to being a baby. BUT he is always wanting his lead rope in his mouth to chew one. ALL the time so the question is what does everyone do with these or toys to recommend? Before recommending teeth problem, he has had a recent float as well as a blood panel done to make sure he wasn't missing something in his diet. Health wise he is perfect. So it is just emotional I feel I am not sure if that is a good word for it but he wants nothing to do with Jolly Balls or anything like that. All he wants is lead ropes lol. |
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Location: Mississippi | I have an old show horse that would chew on leads. You can try chew stop unless your horse is like mine and LoVES the chew stop. I run a stud chain through the tie ring and clip it to itself. He plays with the chain now instead of chewing. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Mild hot sauce  |
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 Legal Beagle
Posts: 2809
Location: Central Okla. | Get a stud chain (lead rope chain) and make a trailer tie out of it. I hate grabbing onto a chewed up, grassy, wet lead rope. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | when you figure it out let me know.
Mine always has something in his mouth. He chews out of frustration sometimes(when you're late to feed, or stuck at a show and there is a lot of commotion) sometimes he's bored, sometimes I think he's just being a ham and trying to get attention. I find it annoying but he kind of knows what is "okay" to chew on. like my hair.... that's a no. A cross tie.. go for it. He liked having the milk jugs with treats in them hung on the wall so he can bang them around and get rewarded when he beats it open like a pinata. he also likes the lickits, he'll even play without the tasty treat in the middle. I probably could hand a lead rope in there and he'd play with it, as he has always been very playful. We also leave jolly balls and those big plastic mushroom toys you roll around and treats fall out out in the pasture, just things to keep him busy. He's always money for our guests when they come over because he's ALWAYS being a clown. He's learned through a few pops in the muzzle that chewing on me, or my clothes or the dog is not okay... but that he can chew on things we put in front of him, it's your own fault if you leave your cellphone on his stall wall. THANKFULLY he's smart enough to get a handle on it now and he's never been an aggressive chewer. He's just always been mouthy.
There is my long drawn out story about my horse. :D |
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Location: Oklahoma | I think some of them just like to touch things with their mouths and chew. It's what they do. Mine always needs something to be checking out. The other night- I would check stuff off of my list and Denny (the horse) would check it off of his list.
Me: Put Rusty's saddle on fence
Denny: Take saddle off of fence
Me: Put headstall on his saddle horn
Denny: Take headstall off of saddle horn
Me: Open trailer door
Denny: Shut trailer door
It's always an on-going thing with him. He just loves to touch stuff, open gates, doors, close gates, doors. Remove things from where I put them. Luckily, he doesn't really "chew" on things. But he is one mouthy horse. He always has to touch something with it. When he gets new shoes, the farrier always laughs at him because his nose/mouth has to be touching me the whole time. Even when I catch him and we are walking up to the house, he has his nose in the small of my back. Beats me why.
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| I have a gelding that's off the track that chews on every thing! Not just chews but eats! He ate an entire rope halter except for one know and the tie end of a rope halter that was hanging on this fence while I was at work one day. We just recently went to a race and he was tied for the majority of the day and he ate 2 feet of his 6 foot lead rope. I have tried chew stop and hot sauce and neither work! |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I have a couple like this, I just try to keep the ropes out of their reach when I have them tied up, I have ropes hanging in my trees so I use these to tie up then I take the leads ropes off of them, but sometimes I dont have a choice on where I tie and they will chew. |
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 Sparky
Posts: 13038
Location: I call the back seat on the short bus!! | Get a magnetic halter from PHT and/or a poll pack to put on his bridles. Worked for me. ;) |
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Veteran
Posts: 234
| Old race horse trainer told me years ago on a mouthy chewy horse to put the old original green liquid dish soap on what ever they chewed - and it worked for me |
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