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Horse flex tape meme3/1/2024 Lots of people, me included, use 2 strands to cross fence a pasture. It may not be “visible” to a green horse-person’s eye, but I bet it is there. They are going to want to work well inside it, and I bet they will always be pre-occupied with thinking about their proximity to the fence. When they are conditioned to fear the electric fence, they are not going to want to work on the rail. Even the horses at the therapeutic center I work at loose their minds when the electric fence pops, and you don’t find much more level-headed and calm horses than those. Their demeanor does a complete 180* - ears up, heads up, nostril flared, some will even bolt away at that simple “popping” sound. Don’t believe me? See what happens if the fence shorts out and pops/cracks when they are around. They downright fear it once they have been shocked. Your horses do not “respect” electric fence in the same way they “respect” humans. It surprises me that a company that makes such a wonderful, safe, and popular product could endorse such a dangerous idea. I have seen the ads on the HorseGuard website/catalog about making a round pen with their tape. It’s not and “if” it is a “when” - it is going to happen to everyone who uses a round pen. All of them, at one time or another, get the zoomies and tear around the pen, slide, hit the panels, etc. I have a roundpen and I use it constantly for my ancient experienced horses, and my super-flighty young Arab.
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