Horse ware rugs anyone have this problem!?

All the bl**dy time. And mine have a habit of swishing past their nets when they get in, so have to have their rugs undone on the yard and swiftly removed as they get in the box.

I'm plotting a flexible 'sleeve' of some sort that can easily be pushed over the T piece, inner tube is OH's suggestion, I wondered about a small Tubigrip cut to length.

We won't even mention the Amigo fly rug that my then yearling hooked into the stud mesh fence and ruined, it was all of 48 hours old.
 
Yes, my mare clipped herself up to the fence (twice). When the rug went in to be cleaned I got them to change the clips.
 
All the time!! I don't have one of their stable rugs, but his turnouts get stuck on fencing all the time.

As you can see from the pic below, he is now sporting one front strap instead of two!


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Nope. Never had a problem, ever! I've got two lightweights and the sweet itch hoody and none have caught in anything! You lot all have accident prone horses!
 
I use Horseware rugs and some have the T fastening and some have clip fastenings.

I don't like T fastenings at the front of rugs because they get caught in haynets. My horse ripped a fleece to shreds after the T got caught in his haynet. The T clasp and half the rug were still attached to the haynet in the morning.

I always do the clip fastenings up so that the opening inside/horse side not the outside. I hope that makes sense!
 
I don't have that problem but find they do come undone easily and have more than once found Fab stood naked with his rug on the floor! I don't tend to buy them now as didn't think the quality was great for the money either and tend to stick to Premier Equine.
 
They can surely only get stuck if they are leaning over the fence. A electric perimeter would prevent this, save the fencing and the rugs. As for hay nets they must be really low?!
 
No, I'm surprised to hear so many of you have this problem. I've been using them for years and never had any sort of problem with one.

Only rugs that have a minor problem are my Fal lightweights. The Velcro on the chest comes unstuck even though its not clogged with hair or debris.
 
I have one horse that's never got caught up and one who does it every time without fail, she rubs on the net and gets hooked, must depend on the horse.
Great idea about the sleeve to cover it!
 
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