Anyone else think this is barbaric?

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I helped a friend move her horse today. Not undertaken lightly, as this chap has serious loading issues - it's taken 3 hours before now to get him in someone else's lorry. I have a theory he doesn't like lorries, he's always gone in my trailer even if it's taken 30 minutes to do it. Well, our worries were unfounded, using the "bring him up to the ramp, then back him up a few times until he gets bored" method, we got him in the trailer in 10 minutes this afternoon (we had set the whole afternoon aside to get him home) No stress, no arguments, it was great...
I've just found out tonight from another friend (we all know how small the horsey world is) that he's always been a sod to load, when he went off to be backed, it took 1 1/2 hours to get him in the lorry and the then owners apparently eventually resorted to electrified fence tape round his back end to get him in. Well that certainly explains why using a lunge line panics him so much (we tried that on a previous occasion). It also explains why he doesn't like loading so much, expecially into lorries, if that's his memory of what happens. I've always realised he's genuinely scared, not being naughty. Now I know why.

Am I alone in thinking this is a barbaric practice? I'd never even heard of it before tonight...
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I haven't heard of live electrical fencing being used on horses but to be honest it doesn't suprise me that people do use it as a method, there are some extreamly bad methods for everything unfortunatly.
 
Barbaric, stupid and very dangerous (to horse and humans). Don't know why some people have anything to do with horses if that is what they resort to.
 
There is a pony at my RS atm which will prob never load again - the people who gave her to RI rescued her from people at sales who were using one of those hand held taser things to try and force her into a lorry
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How on earth did they use electric fencing? How would they have it connected? Maybe the people who saw it meant they just used the tape (not electrified)? I saw someone try to load a horse into a box with one of those winches at a market it obviously was a bad loader but that would have made him even worse. RSPCA or who ever is there for that sort of thing stopped them. The horse was terrified. I wouldn't be supprised these days what some people will do.
 
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How on earth did they use electric fencing? How would they have it connected? Maybe the people who saw it meant they just used the tape (not electrified)?

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I asked friend that, as I couldn't get my head around it. Apparently they connected one end of the tape to something on the lorry, kept the insulating handle on the other end and had it connected to the battery and energiser as well, there was definitely current running through it. They were not just using the tape the way you would a lunge line...
 
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I asked friend that, as I couldn't get my head around it. Apparently they connected one end of the tape to something on the lorry, kept the insulating handle on the other end and had it connected to the battery and energiser as well, there was definitely current running through it. They were not just using the tape the way you would a lunge line...

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Someone should stick an electric tape on their bum. Horrible people. No wonder some horses become hard to handle when idiots like them have had them.
 
Absolutley disgusting, they want it sticking up their backside everytime they go to get in their car. It makes me sick how some people think it's acceptable to treat their animals. Poor thing.
 
Absolutely awful. They clearly lack all understanding of horses to think this will make the horse a better loader! No wonder he's still not a great loader but sounds like you're doing it a far kinder way and thus getting results.
 
Absolutely horrific, I am surprised the poor animal ever loaded again.
 
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