Poor pony got quite a shock!

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Emma24

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My 3 year old loves to switch is light on all the time, and the light switch had become a bit loose, well last night i'm 100% sure he got a rather large electric shock through him. Because the light switch was hanging by 1 wire and the others had all come away from it.
And he was very quiet, ( which is not like him, normally kicking the door for my attention) my Dad moved the broken last switch towards him as if to say what have you done and he ran to the back of his stable and wouldn't go near it, and kept looking at the light switch as if it was a scary monster!
He's never scared of anything.
I'm hoping that will teach him to play with light switches!
 
aaaaaaaww! poor pony
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i hope that will teach YOU and your dad to make the switches horse-safe, i.e. have them well out of reach of any horse at any time.
Jeeeeez. please tell me this is a wind-up. the electricity going through a plug is a lot more than that going through an electric fence.
poor pony.
 
Why not put a 3 point plug in there for him to play with too..
God, some people have no imagination!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're lucky to have a pony to feel sorry for at all!
 
I have proper full safety switches, plus with wooden guards on one side, when I say loose I don't mean it was hanging down it was fully attached to the wall last night. To be fair he must of done some serious eating last night to rip it off last night.
Plus he has plenty of toys to keep him occupied.
How he reached enough to rip it off I would love to know.
 
Can't believe I am reading this. It is bad enough that this has been allowed to happen let alone this flippant post about hoping your horse has learned his lesson
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Your stables/yard should also be fitted with an up to date circuit breaker for safety so that in circumstances like these it should trip the fuse board.
I would seriously look at your electrics before something more serious happens
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Mrs_Wishkabibble, tbh i think she's too young and/or stupid to realise the danger her pony was in. a mains shock of 240v could have killed the poor thing.
i hope the fact that 3 of us have answered in a seriously worried way might get the message through, but i doubt it.
very lucky the effing stables didn't burn down too, imho.
 
Emma24, in case you think we're ganging up on you and being horrible for no reason:
if your pony could reach to turn the light on and off (with his nose/lips, i guess?) then he could reach the light fitting with his teeth. horse's teeth and jaws are quite amazingly strong.... if he could reach it, he could easily rip it off the wall. as you have now discovered. you are very lucky it didn't kill him, or set the stables on fire. this is deadly serious.
saying he had "plenty of toys to keep him occupied" is daft - he didn't know the risk of chewing/pulling at the lightswitch, so why should he play with other things and not that?! especially when the lightswitch turned the lights on, which, it has been proven in tests, horses prefer.
please do not put him back in a stable where he can reach any electrics at all, if you love him!
 
Emma, quite apart from the fact that this is dangerous for your horse ( agree with everything posted above) it is also a very dangerous situation for human beings too. An electric shock is not nice.
It is relatively inexpensive to get your wiring re-routed, and a circuit breaker fitted. There should be no need to have light switches in reach of your horse, or indeed inside a stable. Every yard should have its own isolating system. Please look into this asap... for all your sakes. It will set your mind at rest for the future I am sure.
 
f*uck me, light switches should be outside the stable, fitted so the horse cannot touch the light switch in any way what-so-ever,
this post shocked the crap out of me,
and i totally agree with everything kerilli and people have said!
BLIMEY!
you clear do not understand just how serious that is
 
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