Smacking a horse in his privates if he drops??

[Niennor]

The woman is a nut. Slap her in the privates, twice, once from me.

Once more for me please!

[fburton]

Third vote for "Yes, it's a bad habit and can get nasty" - astonishing!

[Niennor]

OK, Where are The Fruitbats?

[Ambitious Kate]

I suspect someone is just funnin y'all by checking "yes". Any one who was serious and really felt that way would say so. Might even be one person logging on with all her/his different alters. I doubt anyone really thinks that. Except the looky body work lady.

[Laurierace]

If I had a colt whacking his belly while I was trying to pack his feet or wrap his legs I would stick my fingers in the water bucket and flick some water on his party, but I would never smack one for that.

[Bravestrom]

I didn't read all the posts but I will recount a situation I saw and was absolutely shocked by.

My first gold show so I was a little bug eyed. Saw a lady bring out a stallion - trying to hide what she was doing but she was kicking his privates hard with boots because he dropped.

And this happened a few times during the day - wish i had had a camera and just was so shocked at how hard she was kicking him. I wish I had known better at the time and reported her - but I sure never forgot it or who she was.

[goeslikestink]

omg the woman is sick - think i would slap her in her privates lol

if hes ready to drop and hasnt been done yet and your not going to bred from him perhaps look to see if he has as its easier on him to be done sooner rather than later just a thought for you to consider

[Ace]

if you ever want to be able to clean the sheath properly, you can't go around whacking the horse for dropping when relaxed.
Even if you felt it was ok to physically correct the horse for dropping, surely hitting the horse in the actual privates is even more of big no-no than say, apply a whip to a horse's head or kicking the horse in the belly? and for the same reason- a very sensitive part that could easily get injured by physical correction.

This! Absolutely! My old gelding had to be sedated when having his sheath cleaned (and even then he was ornery). He was a former racehorse, so I'm guessing someone batted at his privates at some point...never thought of that.

And that said, I never knew horses masturbated! I've never seen that...just the relaxed, hanging out stuff. Do dogs do this, too, and I've just never seen my neutered Jacks do this?!

[Foxtrot's]

Is that old school advice? - a well known horsewoman here who was into big time showing and halter advocated that in the book she wrote.

Glad to see that almost all these replies are against it. Any geldings I have had did this quite a lot and I've frankly never noticed or been bothered by it.

[magicteetango]

Completely inappropriate. And the stories about the nails and wire brush turned my stomach, the things people will do to their animals never ceases to amaze me. Good for you for standing up for him.

[Lone]

Just curious: How do you smack the private parts while you're riding? If I did it with any accuracy, I'd fall off.
Which would be my payback for doing it.

I boarded (briefly) at a barn where the BO had a horribly behaved stallion. As soon as another horse came into the arena (mare or gelding, it didn't matter) her stallion would drop and start rearing, squealing and generally being an idiot. She carried a long dressage whip and could smack his privates with it even while he was carrying on and leaping around. Shockingly, smacking him regularly with a dressage whip didn't solve all his behavioral problems...

The BO asked me (a freshman in high school, C2 level pony clubber at the time) if I'd be willing to train her stallion and teach him dressage. I turned down that opportunity!

[Kwill]

Lone, some posts just make you go, good lord!

[SwampYankee]

The list of people I'd like to whack in the privates is long and distinguished, but doesn't happen to include my horse.

[FineAlready]

This actually ENRAGES me! WTF?!?! If anyone ever hit my gelding in the privates, I would call the police. I'm not even kidding. I would like to hear the explanation to the police, even if they could not do anything about it (though I do wonder about this being covered by animal cruelty laws in at least some states).

My gelding is dropped 90% of the time, and he "masturbates" pretty often. It's just who he is, and there has never been any aggression associated with this behavior. I do think he was cut late (a few vets have indicated they believe so as well). He is dropped for all grooming, tacking up, etc. He puts it up on the way to the ring and keeps it up to work, then drops again as we walk back to the barn. He is usually dropped while grazing, etc.

Sorry, but geldings and stallions don't owe it to us to protect our delicate sensibilities. Jesus, that is just sick and wrong. What the hell would this effing crazy lady do about a mare in heat that squirts?!?! Shove something up there? THAT, I am quite sure would violate a number of laws.

Some people are freaking insane.

[Sunnyhorse]

That story makes me want to, in the words of Glee's Sue Sylvester, kick that woman in the taco. What a sadistic thing to do.

[Couture TB]

Oops. I didn't read your post. I voted YES, BUT I was picturing it in the way a stallion does when being a pia in cross ties when other horses go past.

A horse that is just relaxed? NO! Heck most of my geldings while they are groomed drop. Makes a quick cleaning easy if you know what I mean

[HenryisBlaisin']

Yeah, that's pretty extreme. With my boy, often when he drops, it's because he needs me to take him someplace where he can pee (he's picky and won't pee just anywhere). If I miss his cue and it's before a ride, he's seriously uncomfortable and acts like it! (Can't say I blame him; have you ever tried running with a very full bladder?!) If it's not for that reason, and he's relaxed and happy, who cares?

I will say though, that it's not harmless 100% of the time. We had a retired gelding at a barn where I used to work that would sometimes drop just as OP describes when he was getting groomed. With him, it was a cue that needed to be read, because he would go from that relaxed, spaced out zone to trying to mount the nearest living thing, which was usually the person handling him or a bystander, in a matter of minutes if they didn't stop doing whatever it was that was making him "happy." That IS dangerous behavior in a public barn! We didn't smack him for dropping, though, just quit and put him away. That deflated him pretty fast.

[mbm]

now there are SIX people who are saying to whip a horse in his penis if he drops.....

can any of you 6 please explain your logic?

[mbm]

Now if a horse is doing something dangerous or that could hurt someone, that's an entirely different matter. Say you're tacking up and the horse tries to bite you when you are doing up the girth, the horse should get some kind of reprimand. Perhaps a quick smack or a sharp "no!" so they understand that kind of behavior is not acceptable.

well of course. And even if you wanted to teach the horse that dropping is not okay at certain times then a better method would be to redirect the horses energy and attention elsewhere - aka making them move over, back up etc.

going from zero (no training of the horse to know what you want) to abuse (whacking him on his penis) is wrong.

[arlosmine]

Even with a stud, (especially a stud with ground handling "issues"), IMO the smacking of the penis is just an ignorant and outdated stupid thing to do. If the stallion is already an issue on the ground, it will just create more problems and escalate his anger and frustration. A real horseperson would do something to get the hose 's focus on another task, not discipline the symptom of his inattention.

A gelding dropping at any time is, for me, a non-issue.