Rubber mat nightmare!

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Doormouse

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I have the cleanest, tidiest mare in the world bless her and she never treads in her poos and does them all in one place etc, BUT she keeps flicking her mats up and getting the bed right under them and then this morning she had actually managed to tear one in half?! She is bedded on wood pellets and then shavings round the walls for banks. The bed comes almost right to the front of her box and is pretty thick so I can't quite work out how she does it. Has anyone got any advice on how to stop this please? I am mainly worried that she is going to hurt herself getting a mat wrapped between her legs at this rate.
 
Are the mats all around the stable and right to the door?

Ive never heard of this happening before unless its just a couple of matts in the middle of the stable.

In one of our stables we did us a type of resin or glue to make sure they didnt move but i have equi mats in the other which fit together like a puzzle and the other is all through out the stable and has never moved
 
This is what is puzzling me, the mats are fitted all round the stable with no room to move and we stuck them down with heavy duty industrial glue but for some reason she has managed to move the front 2 ever so slightly so one is proud of the other and I can't get them to lie completely flat but the one she ripped last night is in the middle of her stable under loads of bed!!!
 
They are only 11mm thickness cos I couldn't afford the thicker ones at the time as I had to put them down in a major hurry when my first mare had a DDFT injury and it was a new yard and there was a big panic on. Perhaps I will have to start saving my pennies for the thick ones. It does seem strange though because she is so tidy and neat in her box and doesn't dig or anythings. I'm wondering if she does it getting up when she has been asleep.
 
My young mare used to do this too. I never found out how but like yours, they were fitted right together and up to the walls. I used to find them all over the place in the mornings. I ended up taking them out as I was worried she'd hurt herself. Mine were the 18mm equimats by the way.
 
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