Rearers hehe

I had a rearer and was told to do the egg thing - personally can't see how whilst trying to stay on i'd be able to do that!!

Turns out one day mine reared up a bit too high and fell over backwards - after he fell he never thought about rearing again - although i came away with broken legs and concussion so wouldn't advise it!!!
 
I've done the slap under the belly when a couple of horses have stood up with me. It has worked well. They drop to the ground like a stone and you can then usually get them moving forward while they are busy trying to work out where it came from. Both stopped rearing.
 
I like to hit them over the back of the head with all manner of things, bricks, tables, lampshades etc

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In all honesty i have never had a true rearer and I guess I would try a lot of things but personally I wouldn't want to hit them across the head with anything. The smack under the belly sounds like a useful tool if done correctly.
 
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I like to hit them over the back of the head with all manner of things, bricks, tables, lampshades etc

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PMSL , do you have a handy fold up table that you can whip out if you had too
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I know of an ex-racer about 15 years ago that they did the egg thing with but it didn't stop him from going up
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My boy went up and fell backwards on me over a year ago. He was quite stunned by the whole ordeal and I think winded too. I managed to escape with a badly bruised leg (some of which is still numb now!). I think falling backwards did scare him although he has reared since with my instructor when asked to do something more difficult
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The whole spinal board and being whisked off to hospital scared the life out of me and I know Monty quite well now so I don't put him in that situation. I leave it to someone more experienced who pushes him through it.
 
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my god. does no one bother finding out why the rearing occurs in the first place???!
you know, cause and effect and all that!
cracking eggs over ponies head that are quite possibly in pain is never going to work. unless of course, they stop rearing and simply find another method of pain tolerance. :-(

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Well i took it as people had had everything checked and this was recomended to them for stopping the rearing. One of the first things i did with my mare was have everything checked, and more than once to be 100% sure it wasn't pain related.
 
"in the middle ages a napping horse would be goaded by an 'angry cat of the most savage nature' said cat was to be strapped to a stout stick and applied to the horses bottom!"
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thats what i use for any of mine that think about napping.
for rearing i prefere to use said cat on the head or possibly the front legs if i feeling more athletic and have a long enough cat stick with me at the time.
down with the carrot stick, up with the cat stick i say!
 
if a cat is unavailable, you can always use weasel or ferret.not quite as effective though.

for preventing rearing in modern times we prefer larger objects for application to the head- the smallest to be used, should be no smaller than a washing machine or similar white goods.
best applied before rearing starts.
highly effective method apparently
 
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Does anyone know how to attach said cat without personal injury?

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Thick gloves?
 
Thick gloves definatley. I think I'll start producing 'catsticks' with a view to selling them on Ebay. I expect the local cat rescue would happily supply a few ferals for the job
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this post has me in hysterics!!!!!
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sooooooo much more useful ....the parrelli's will be jealous, after all, you can't advertise a carrot stick as dual purpose can you?? at least the catstick can be used to clean the bog with!!!!
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