Daily tip …
Why would I always have a 3-meter leading rope at hand?
So…
Remember the story of my return to Israel with 4 horses?
Three of them were young, and beyond going to competition here and there – were not too experienced, certainly not noisy surroundings with airplanes, forklifts, etc. …
Before the flight I remembered that when I was a young girl, one of the mares we brought to Israel came down from the box where she was on the flight, made a movement with her head, saw a forklift and panicked …
While doing that, the rope pulls out of my hand and the horse begins to run … on the smoothed concrete … among all the people, the forklifts, the cars, the trucks …
In the end she slipped and we caught her …
So obviously I thought 10 times how to prepare for the flight with the young horses …
Some of the preparations were to buy very long leading ropes!
So even if a horse is scared, he will have enough rope to raise his head and step aside – and I will still have a comfortable and secure grip …
and so it was!
The long ropes proved themselves, one horse was frightened and stood on two hind legs, the rope was long enough, I calmed him down and mount him into the box where he would spend the next few hours of the flight … no harm done this time!
Beyond use for flight,
I discovered that as a horse breeder, the long rope gets great uses, such as teaching a foal with its head collar in the first few times …
Such as helping to raise a horse even if I am completely alone and this is the first time …
Such as walking in a new environment and feeling safe because there is a long rope and this is convenient for both the horse and me …
This is for today …
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