indie1282
Well-Known Member
Just been down my yard to check my boys and every horse on the yard is turned out in a rug - some with full necks. Its a lovely sheltered yard in a valley which is a real sun trap and all the horses rugged are not clipped, not in work and all showing a bit of fluff.
There is a Shetland in a lightweight turn out rug. In the 17° sun.
I feel like Tom Hanks in the green mile walking past all their fields as they look becheechingly at me - its horrible!
I know each to their own and some horses feel the cold more etc.. but they are all looking hot and miserable. What baffles me the most is the owners stood in the yard in t shirts saying 'gosh its so warm today'
Wtf??!
Where did the trend for rugging a horse constantly come from? Is it the manufacturers - there seems to be a rug for every possible occasion on the market? Do horse owners genuinely think that an animal designed to live outside is cold in the mild weather?
I cant think of a reason to make a horse unhappy and uncomfortable just for the sake of it?
There is a Shetland in a lightweight turn out rug. In the 17° sun.
I feel like Tom Hanks in the green mile walking past all their fields as they look becheechingly at me - its horrible!
I know each to their own and some horses feel the cold more etc.. but they are all looking hot and miserable. What baffles me the most is the owners stood in the yard in t shirts saying 'gosh its so warm today'
Wtf??!
Where did the trend for rugging a horse constantly come from? Is it the manufacturers - there seems to be a rug for every possible occasion on the market? Do horse owners genuinely think that an animal designed to live outside is cold in the mild weather?
I cant think of a reason to make a horse unhappy and uncomfortable just for the sake of it?
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