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  • #41
    I once spilled hot water on my foot and got a 2nd degree burn.


    I'll never make a cup of tea again.

    Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
    Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
    -Rudyard Kipling

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      #42
      In thinking back on all my horse related injuries - most of them came from handling horses on the ground - not from riding. Bit, kicked, stepped on, ran over. Sometimes you do everything right and still end up with a black eye.

      My first Arab mare Mariah stomped on my foot and broke it when she spooked at something and jumped on top of me. I was leading on her left side, right by her shoulder. Steel shoes, concrete, and tennis shoes. I was the loser.

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      • #43
        Hay

        I put down my old mare in 2008. She was a 33-year-old flighty TB who was going blind and deaf. She would swing that friggin' head of hers around rather unexpectedly.

        I just made a rule at the barn: Do not handle or go near this horse.

        Someone wanted to hug her on the day of her death and I said "No. Not worth it."

        I think PSAs are good. There seems to be a lot of newbies on the board and a PSA never hurts.
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        • #44
          Thanks, SmartAlex. I do those things fairly consistently. Sometimes mare wants to walk sort of behind me with her nose on my butt, and I sort of sensed that was a bad idea, but I see why now.

          I don't know how to make this a rule, but during fly season, I'm really careful about a horse's knees. Once I bent over to pick up a hoof, and my head was slightly in front of my horse's knee (hard to describe). I should have been more alongside him. I narrowly missed a knee in the face when he abruptly picked up his foot in response to a fly.

          It wasn't even a kick -- it was just, giant bony knee, almost in the face.
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          • #45
            Originally posted by Auventera Two View Post
            Geeze both of those are scary stories

            I landed in the ER a few years ago with a ruptured ear drum after getting cracked in the head with my horse's poll. I was riding bareback and best I can figure, a bee or fly went up her nose. She half reared and threw her head back so violently she cracked me in the forehead with her poll. I had a concussion and next thing I knew, I was "coming to" on the ground. Not sure if the ear drum rupture happened at the initial whack, or if I landed with my ear flat down to the ground, but in any case I had a good sized perforation that took weaks to heal.
            Yikes -were you wearing a helmet?

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            • #46
              Lori ~ Just be aware. And I know that sounds open ended, but watching everything while enjoying your horse is part of being safe.
              I will add to smart alex's list, when walking or working in the hind end area, I actually stand closer to the horses body. Getting cow kicked by a leg that has not had a chance to "gain speed and release the kick" is actually not as brutal as getting kicked by the quick snapping hoof at the end of said barrel.

              I worked at a breeding farm as a sale groom and this idea of being closer than farther saved my ass more than once with randy colts and frisky fillys.
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              • #47
                Originally posted by JSwan View Post
                I once spilled hot water on my foot and got a 2nd degree burn.


                I'll never make a cup of tea again.


                ROFLMAO!!!

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                • #48
                  I tried to pull on a hay string and break it after it got wrapped around the tire of the lawn mower, because someone left it out (cough not me). PSA: hay strings, even old, wet, run over ones, don't break. And that's how you get 2nd degree burns on your hand, when it rebounds and hits the mower exhaust. Should have known better, I mean how many freakin' hay strings have I touched in my life time so far, but still...shit happens. I didn't scream and raise a fuss; I went inside and rinsed it with cool water for about five minutes, even though the burn was so bad that it never once hurt, then went out and mowed for another couple of hours. I still mow. Why? Well, frankly, I like mowing.

                  Point is, we all do shit we know better (we being us horsey folk), and sometimes we get doinked for it. Sometimes bad, sometimes not. Fact is, we love horses and horses are risky. They are big, sometimes 10 times bigger, and make sudden movements. Our dogs and cats probably have the same damn conversations about us, because how many times do WE suddenly decide to walk over here, or back up a step, and step on one, accidentally, without looking....
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                  • #49
                    Freaky stuff happens. But when you get hurt doing something stupid, you only have yourself to blame.

                    This is a little of both, fortunately I wasn't hurt.

                    I was putting a halter on Savannah, when the younger mare came up and poked her nose into Savannah's face. I should have sent V. away as soon as she came over, but I didn't. Savannah backed her ears and smapped her teeth at V., who spun around and kicked out with both back feet.

                    I don't recall actually being kicked. But I did find myself on the ground. Wasn't hurt and got right up. But the next day I had a dime-sized bruise about 4 inches above my navel.

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                    • #50
                      Hmmmm, according to some on here I should have smashed feet, be deaf and/or blind and definitely have a bunch of scarring..... I might even be dead!

                      I'm a very naughty girl.

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                      • #51
                        I've thought multiple times recently that lunge cavessons are like brass knuckles attached to the head of a potential dingbat. They typically do not use that power for evil, but that is one swinging head I don't want to be anywhere near. Brass knucklehead.
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                        • #52
                          Brass Knucklehead. BWAHAHAHAHH!!! Good one. I admit to being a naughty horse owner as well. Guilty of ducking under heads, leading horsey with flipflops on, leading horsey with just a halter, leading horsey with just a halter AND wearing flipflops, letting horsey poke along slightly behind me at times for one not very good reason or another, and various other stupid, unsafe handling practices I am sure I deserve to be hammered on about. And for all the usual bad reasons mentioned already, been around horses a long time, very comfortable around them, especially comfortable around my current horse since I have had him since he was 5 months old, he is the bombproof, sweetheart that will be with me forever because of his temperment and overall goodness. I try to do the right thing and mind my p's and q's when I am handling/riding, etc., and with an unknown horse, I am especially mindful of good handling practices, etc. Will try to do better ALL of the time and not just most of the time.

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                          • #53
                            Just to be clear -- no one is 'hammering' anyone here! No one has said, 'if you do X, you are an idiot and it's a miracle you're not dead.'

                            There will be times when we all are less than 100% on safety best practices. But I find it valuable to have a clearer picture what to do and not to do, and why.

                            I lead w/ just a halter from stall to wash stall, and from stall to Xties. Probably not going to change that, w/ this horse. But I am never around horses in anything less protective than sneakers, usually paddock boots.

                            Thanks to all who had thoughtful and constructive suggestions.
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                            I've found that I don't tolerate people idiosyncrasies as well. - Casey09

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                            • #54
                              OKAY-TROOF STOREY!!!11!!

                              DON"T WEAR A HELMUT!!!

                              my friend was wearing her helmet WHILE LEADING HER HORSE on the ground and her horse flipped its head at her, catching the brim of her helmet and resulting in a severe whiplash injury that kept her from riding for months.

                              Helmuts are dangerush!!



                              (sp intentional)
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                              • #55
                                Originally posted by Meshach View Post
                                In general, if you think a thread is stupid or a waste of your time, don't read it ...
                                But General- I never considered laughter a waste of time!
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                                • #56
                                  Originally posted by CatOnLap View Post
                                  OKAY-TROOF STOREY!!!11!!

                                  DON"T WEAR A HELMUT!!!

                                  my friend was wearing her helmet WHILE LEADING HER HORSE on the ground and her horse flipped its head at her, catching the brim of her helmet and resulting in a severe whiplash injury that kept her from riding for months.

                                  Helmuts are dangerush!!



                                  (sp intentional)

                                  Yeah, I know, liek, my cousin fell off and teh helmet liek hit her nose, and she liek had liek totally 2 black eyes for liek teh next week or 2!

                                  (that was when the velvet hard hats where the standard tho...she put the harnes over that baby afterwards...)

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                                  • #57
                                    Originally posted by Auventera Two View Post
                                    In thinking back on all my horse related injuries - most of them came from handling horses on the ground - not from riding. Bit, kicked, stepped on, ran over. Sometimes you do everything right and still end up with a black eye.

                                    My first Arab mare Mariah stomped on my foot and broke it when she spooked at something and jumped on top of me. I was leading on her left side, right by her shoulder. Steel shoes, concrete, and tennis shoes. I was the loser.
                                    THIS......

                                    That's why when the Western type trainers tell me I need to use a round pen and do "ground work" with my horses I look at them with a weird look and say "No thanks, I'll stay up here, thank you!"

                                    I was wraping my horse one day getting ready to ride and my horse moved his leg, very softly mind you, and his knee "tapped" the side of my eye. "YES" TAPPED the SIDE. Like at my temple. I had a helmet on..

                                    Went to ride and an about an hour later; someone said to me "what happened"? I said "what do you mean?" They said "YOU HAVE A BLACK EYE!"....

                                    And I did....

                                    I did have a horse flip his head at me while riding; had a helmet on and his neck hit the helmet visor... I was fine but mad at him...
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                                      #58
                                      Originally posted by BLBGP View Post
                                      Yikes -were you wearing a helmet?
                                      NOPE! And THAT was exactly what started me wearing a helmet ALWAYS. I trusted my horse, felt 100% safe on her. It proved to me that freak incidents can happen so quickly on even the shortest bareback hack around the pasture on the most bombproof horse you own. I don't think I've mounted a horse since that incident without a helmet!

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                                      • #59
                                        Originally posted by Lori B View Post
                                        Thanks, SmartAlex. I do those things fairly consistently. Sometimes mare wants to walk sort of behind me with her nose on my butt, and I sort of sensed that was a bad idea, but I see why now.

                                        I don't know how to make this a rule, but during fly season, I'm really careful about a horse's knees. Once I bent over to pick up a hoof, and my head was slightly in front of my horse's knee (hard to describe). I should have been more alongside him. I narrowly missed a knee in the face when he abruptly picked up his foot in response to a fly.

                                        It wasn't even a kick -- it was just, giant bony knee, almost in the face.
                                        Ouch. Been there, done that. Not sure how I did it, but I sure got smacked. Had a bruise on my brow bone for ages.
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                                        • #60
                                          I don't have enough room or time to list all the bumps and bruises from all the horse related "dumb things" that have happened to me in the past 25 years of horse ownership.

                                          I did want to add a point about the body awareness thing. When I went to school for equine massage certification one of the biggest points of the class was safety, especially because we would be working on horses that we did not know as well as we know our own. The rule is to keep your free hand (the one not massaging) on the horse at all times, and there is a right and wrong way to do that. The wrong way is to put your palm on the horse, if the move suddenly you could sprain or break your wrist. You do it by making a loose fist with your hand, and rest your knuckles on the horse. This creates a straight line (hand to arm) and if the horse does move into your space suddenly, it will actually push you out of the way, vs snapping tendons and bone.

                                          But even with being taught safety, I still managed to get injured once massaging a horse, and it was my own stupid fault. I was massaging the stifle area, and I was standing in the wrong spot/angle, the mare stepped on my foot, I gave her hip a shove to try to get her off my foot, and she hip checked me back, which knocked me to the floor, with my foot still trapped under her hoof. The lesson kids tacking up their horses learned a few new swear words that day.
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