Might come in handy for a farrier. Maybe they wouldn't have as much trouble catching some of those horses for shoeing that are CC'd to "Here"!

Here, Trigger!

BHB

 

here...nic....here.....sit, sit.......SSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

wonder if you can get blinking lights for it too? in different colors....how cool would that be to ride up on your horse with blinking Tri-Tronics lights on an e-collar with a belt bigger than Bubba's to strap it around it's neck???

 

wonder if you can get blinking lights for it too? in different colors....how cool would that be to ride up on your horse with blinking Tri-Tronics lights on an e-collar with a belt bigger than Bubba's to strap it around it's neck???

I didn't say it, Bubba regards,

BHB

 

Some of the pointer guys have been using them on their walking horses for a long time.

 

We went to see the rodeo when we were in Idaho. At the beginning they had a bunch of girls riding around in fancy patterns in the dark. The horses were all lit up with twinkly lights like Christmas trees. I thought the lights were just to look cool, but now I know they were trainin' 'em

 

I'd seen them advertised in the Blood Horse (a thoroughbred racing magazine) back when I subscribed; I believe TriTronics makes them for horses. As I recall the ad said they could be used for breaking stall vices like cribbing and weaving, things race horses are prone to since they're rarely turned out and live in their stalls 23 hrs. a day.

Thought about trying one for one of my nags who paws craters when he eats, but he's 19 and has done it his entire life. One summer I tried to get him to stop by standing by the fence where he eats and konking him with a bucket every time he pawed (he's dug a canyon under his feed tub so even though he's 16.1, he's a few feet lower when he's eating) but all I succeeded in doing was teaching him not to do it when I was around. Never have heard of anyone who used one on a horse.

 

Last time I looked they were still listed on the tri-tronics site.

 

I just checked and they are not on the new web page. I do have a price list on TT IC's page, 349 dollars for one hores. I am told that the high on a ViceBreaker H2 is lower than the low on the dog collrs.

 

TT has a horse division - http://www.tthorse.com/ And Gun Dog Supply sells them - http://www.gundogsupply.com/vibreltrcofo.html

 

A few tidbits about horses and e-collars.

Rex Carr, the father of e-collar use for retrievers experimented quite a bit with using e-collars on horses.

It appears that the major use today for e-collars on horses is to stop bad habits like cribbing rather than to reinforce obedience.

I have a couple of e-collars that have the Tritronics "tracer" lights on them. I have used them while horse-back riding at night by simply turning the collar on and strapping behind the cantle on my saddle. Makes a great flasher while near a road!!!

 

They do need to go through the wearing it before using it...I got a chipped tooth from trying to remove it...from a normally docile horse. The stim may be lower on the horse versions, too. I used the dog collar on the lowest setting.

 

Years ago we used a dog collar on "high" on the nose of a horse that was down (colic) in a field we were training in: it worked, and the horse was saved. Pretty cool-- we tried several other not so pretty ways to get him up....

Connie

 

Don't the horse collars use a much much lower level of stimulation?