horse being tied up with clip attatched to bit!

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well i had horse and country on and the saddle club come one a 'kids horsie' programme a horse was tied up with two leadropes attatched to both sides of the bit i was always told this was so so wrong and could injure the horse there doing this on a kids programme i dont think this is educating kids atall if anything it is teaching them bad ways to look after horses.
 
I tied my first pony up by her bit when i was ten years old. I learnt the hard way and never did it again- she pulled back and broke her bridle! Luckily she wasnt hurt though but i agree its not a good example to set on a kids programme.
 
Maybe I'm being blond but isn't that just cross tieing?

And how can it injure the horse?

Reading that I think I sound patronising, I'm not, genuinely can't see how its bad? :S

:D
 
Cross tying is done to a headcollar, tying up to the bit is terrible, think of the injury to the horses mouth if it pulled back on the bit.
 
im glad everyone else agrees it is awful. hattiehorse when you cross tie a horse it usually when being bathed etc and you attatch to the rings on sides of headcoller never attatch to the bit!!!!
 
I have watched it occasionaly, and a lot of it is ****. Its just a fun program for kids but it should hold some resemblence to real life, afterall, how many kids copy tv? It is dangerous to tie a horse up by its bit ring, i have seen this firsthand and it nearly ended in a disaster. The bit ring got caught on the door bolt because the leadrope was pulling it forward, and the horse panicked, nearly ripping its head off, thankfully the door bolt gave way before any serious damage was done, but the horse will not tie up any more.
 
a girl on my yard attached the leadrope to the bit!! and then mounted up, the horse pulled back and rearedd causing the whole headpeice to snap in half! she then had to buy a new bridle for him :( its so dangerous.
i once heard about a horse who broke his jaw from it :/
 
Having a horse that will break away if he wants to and will sit down with his full weight until something gives I have tied him up with his bridle.

Interestingly he has never tried to break away with the leadrope clipped to the bridle ;)

Nikki xxx
 
To be fair it is filmed in Australia,is billed as a kiddie soap and is not trying to educate.
I agree it is not good,but the children young enough to copy TV are too young to be left alone with a horse in the first place ;)
 
The Saddle Club is most definitely not a programme for kids to watch if they are hoping to learn anything about horses! I sometimes watch it when having a tea-break but end up shouting at it quite a lot! They never warm up, especially before jumping, and seem to think that if you say Walk Pirouette loudly to your horse, that's the way to do it!
Yes I know it's a kid's soap, but I don't see that that excuses such rubbish, as it's aimed at pony mad kids who will pick up bad habits. There was once a follow-up bit featuring the Fredericks, talking as if it was researched to inform as well as amuse, but I think that's twaddle..
 
Even a soap should have some responsibility for setting a good example, surely! A broken bridle is an expensive mistake but, even worse, the horse can injure it's mouth and jaw. A horse on my old yard stood on a rope attached to his bit ring once: blood EVERYWHERE and 12 stitches in the horse's tongue resulted, and the vet was surprised his jaw wasn't broken.
 
I done it once (with on lead rope) turned away for a split second and heard a bang ... when i turned back round there my horse was with the bridle on the floor with the look of "it wasnt me" in his eyes :p lmao but he didnt pull hard on it, it was the billet clippy thingy that came off ... but i will never do it again as it costs a new bridle :rolleyes:
 
tieing up with a lead rope to a bit is seriously dangerous , and anyone that attemps this must have the head tested same with tie up the headcollar around the neck . ive seen a horse break it neck by being tie up by a headcollar around neck .
ive seen a couple of episodes where they done things the way we call dangerous
 
on my riding school i used to always help out pretty much everyday and weekends we always got novices so we had to keep a eye on them.
there was this one girl who was very arrogant had moved over to our riding school as we had 2indoors and outdoors and all the bells and whistles but they were mainly for livery haha
anyway we assigned them there jobs for the day and she kept tying the horses up extreamly tight with double knots ect and we kept saying dont do that its dangerouse anyway one of the last jobs before lunch was tack the ponys up for a lesson she was rather slow but refused help so i went to get my lunch and my other firend wandered round waiting for her then next min all we heard was a bang lots of scraping and her screaming ran outside and she had attached the leadrope to the METAL RING !! not the safety cord and then double knotted it and attached the the bit so this poor horse was on the floor head being dragged up my friend ended up cutting the rope poor horse had a phobia of being tied up after that so never done it but seen many on our yard but no telling them =/ x
 
I did it ONCE, for two seconds while I grabbed my schooling whip out of my stable ... Dylan taught me the error of my ways by snapping the cheekpiece on his bridle. Never made that mistake again.
 
I did it too as a child, & a broken bridle was the result.

It's so dangerous, the horse could be seriously injured. The poster who said she's been doing it for 20 years has been very fortunate. One day she may not be.
 
A friends horse broke it's neck, when it paniced pulling back reared, fell over and snap and that took just 5 secs and she'd clipped his leadrope on to his bit. She's never owned a horse since.
 
A while ago, one girl at our yard asked me if her horse would be alright while she went to find our YO for her lesson if she could clip him to the bit for 5 minutes - I looked at her and said no of course not so she clipped the leadrope to his reins - not much better! (I was in my stable at this point)
I heard something crashing about, then a clatter of hooves, I came rushing out of my stable and saw said horse on his hind legs, with his martingale wrapped under his legs - it was all I could do to get him down, untie him and hold him still until his owner came back to untangle him. He spent the 5 minutes turning himself inside out but I couldnt do anything until she came back as there was nobody else around to help me undo his martingale :(
I sometimes, based on the strength of some people's actions, think it should be mandatory to undergo some form of basic management and care lessons before owning a horse....
K x
 
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