Clpping - I want something different

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Ok so I was at addington not that long ago and noticed someone with a rather unusual clip... it was similar to a blanket clip but had almost a wave effect rather than a semi circle over the hind..... Is this a one off? would really like somthing different and I'm not too bad at freehand. Suggestions?
 
like a half circle over the stifle (think its called that!!) the part with the hair that goes every direction? ... If so its ment to be like that lol
 
Get yourself a piece if tailors chalk and try different lines/angles, see what suits your horse :D

I put a jigsaw piece on Little Cob as he's a piebald and it seemed apt :D. Did it freehand with the large clippers though, so could have been better! Was going to do it properly this year. Ah well, best laid plans and all that.
 
I managed to get this in with wolsely swifts :eek: :D....Was rather proud :D
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Thats terrible! Nobody should even have wallpaper like that, let alone inflict it on a horse!

Personally I'm a traditionalist, and think horses should be horses, not my little ponies with hearts on their bums, or decorated like superman etc!
 
I see no problem with clipping a heart or a star on a ponies bum, it doesnt affect the horse.
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That picture is of course OTT but a simple heart, no problem with that.
 
Honey08 said:
Thats terrible! Nobody should even have wallpaper like that, let alone inflict it on a horse!

Personally I'm a traditionalist, and think horses should be horses, not my little ponies with hearts on their bums, or decorated like superman etc!
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I don't think anyone who keeps horses and has to look after them through the winter regards horses as toys - pets perhaps, but not toys

The American owners obviously did that design to prove that they could as a demonstration of their skills. I very much doubt that the horse was harmed in the process or that it was detrimental to its welfare, and for all anyone knows, the design could have been left to grow out within a few weeks - either way it wasn't a brand, it was a haircut and freehanded by someone with a very steady hand.

I have always maintained that you should only clip because the horse will benefit from clipping in its regime. There are people out there who have said to me that they think it is unethical to clip horses at all as they are given a winter coat by nature and this is how they live in their natural state. there are people who have said to me that horses should not be jumped as they don't in the wild, and nature didn't design them to have a human sat on their backs - they were some very weird people on reflection.

Where do you draw the line though ? As long as the horse is being clipped according to the amount of work it is doing, how much of a winter coat it grows, and the fitness level it is at given the amount of work being demanded of it - oh and that it is being properly rugged afterwards!

A few years ago my (then 17 y/o) daughter clipped stars all over her pony (it has been posted here a few times). It took roughly the same amount of hair off as a blanket clip, and if the truth be known, the coat was growing so fast at that time that within 5 weeks, it had gone, and she re-clipped her with a hunter clip as the pony was being worked regularly and was being jumped every weekend in competition.

We talk about 'traditionalist' thinking, but this has only evolved through the impressions left by those who have taught us - who have only come to those conclusions by the technology and thinking of their day. Who is to say that their train of thought has any more validity than ours or their teachers before them ;)
 
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