i'm in school (and should be studying right now 
) so i don't have time to read all 28 pages of this, but i have read enough to want to make some comments.
first of all, this is a very sad situation, and ultimately i feel badly for the horse who did not ask to be at a place where she is not liked. horses pick up on those vibes and it isn't going to do her any good in the long run.
second, cribbing is NOT the end of the world, and no horse should be sent to the killers just for that...even if the statement was made in frustration, that's still no excuse for even bringing it up.
lastly, i own a TB that i got off the track at 6 yrs old. he was a cribber then, and now at 19 yrs young, he's retired and....yes, still a cribber. but you know what? he took me from training level to intermediare and taught me so much, i can never repay him. what i have been able to do is give him a wonderful life and now he's the granpa of my farm....still cribs on the stall door, but who does that really bother? i think replacing the piece of wood on the top of the door every now and then is a small price to pay for all the years of training he gave me.
he eats off a rubber bucket on the ground or he'd crib on his feed bucket. the water bucket is low enough that he can't get a good 'crib' hold on it, and he's in a field with electric tape around the top of the fence line so he can't crib on the fence. and oh yeah, he raises my foals....they never picked it up. even one colt's mother was a wood chewer (in my opinion more damaging than cribbing since) and he never started that either.
if you take away the places to crib, turn the horse out and let her relax a bit, you may just find this to be less of a problem than you originally thought. if she's what you want in every other respect, don't you think it's worth a try? you may just be saying she's the best horse you ever had 20 years from now.
if you can't bring yourself to get past this with the horse, do the right thing and sell her or give her to one of the generous posters here that have offered to take her off your hands.
) so i don't have time to read all 28 pages of this, but i have read enough to want to make some comments. first of all, this is a very sad situation, and ultimately i feel badly for the horse who did not ask to be at a place where she is not liked. horses pick up on those vibes and it isn't going to do her any good in the long run.
second, cribbing is NOT the end of the world, and no horse should be sent to the killers just for that...even if the statement was made in frustration, that's still no excuse for even bringing it up.
lastly, i own a TB that i got off the track at 6 yrs old. he was a cribber then, and now at 19 yrs young, he's retired and....yes, still a cribber. but you know what? he took me from training level to intermediare and taught me so much, i can never repay him. what i have been able to do is give him a wonderful life and now he's the granpa of my farm....still cribs on the stall door, but who does that really bother? i think replacing the piece of wood on the top of the door every now and then is a small price to pay for all the years of training he gave me.
he eats off a rubber bucket on the ground or he'd crib on his feed bucket. the water bucket is low enough that he can't get a good 'crib' hold on it, and he's in a field with electric tape around the top of the fence line so he can't crib on the fence. and oh yeah, he raises my foals....they never picked it up. even one colt's mother was a wood chewer (in my opinion more damaging than cribbing since) and he never started that either.
if you take away the places to crib, turn the horse out and let her relax a bit, you may just find this to be less of a problem than you originally thought. if she's what you want in every other respect, don't you think it's worth a try? you may just be saying she's the best horse you ever had 20 years from now.
if you can't bring yourself to get past this with the horse, do the right thing and sell her or give her to one of the generous posters here that have offered to take her off your hands.
. Cartier, girl get back on your meds 
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HEY Sirius87, bring the keg!
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