Equine fascination with Velcro...

MizElz

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Does anyone else's horse have this? Ellie loves nothing more than to rip open the cuffs on my Harry Hall jacket! She will stand there and do it over and over again...I blame the OH...he taught her, and now she needs to go to Velcro Rippers Anonymous!
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I had the same thing with a few of the horses at the yard I used to work at, strangely it was just the cuffs of my Bronte jacket though........maybe its just a cuff thing?
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LOL!! My mare has been known to take her own boots off before now but I think that's coz she's lazy and wants to get out of working
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Ive had to remove all the elastic toggles off one of my yard jackets, as my mare loves to pull them out as far as she can then let go - boy does it hurt!!
 
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Ive had to remove all the elastic toggles off one of my yard jackets, as my mare loves to pull them out as far as she can then let go - boy does it hurt!!


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Yep, my 2 year old loves doing this too! She also likes to sneak up behind me, grab a mouthful of my hair and pull... HARD! She thinks it funny seeing her mug of an owner swearing & in pain
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yep, cuffs especially (somehow my jacket's cuffs have (touch wood!!) survived 2 years even though its his fav thing, but I don't know how, the toggles, zip pullers and in one case the zip have all been pulled off and snapped, and the hood is completely ripped off. He's a vandal but I like to think of it as a lovable rogue!! He s**ts himself if he accidentally grabs skin, normally he's very swift and accurate!

Do any of yours' wave your arm around by the cuff too? I think part of his thing is the velcro, the rest is the "making me move like a puppet" thing which can go on for 10 mins without him letting go!!
 
tegoz_marianos yours isnt the only one. My boy is also scared of it. When we first got him we couldnt fasten the velcro on his rugs we just had to do the buckles. He has now got a bit better but kind of turns his head away if we say "velcro time Oscar" like hes bracing himself for it! hehe
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Zips at my yard! They LOVE pulling at zips with toggles on the end, especially when they can get two zips in one mouthful!

All the geldings seem to do it, whether they go out together or not. Maybe it's something in the water?

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