How to clean a dusty horse

[Jennasis]

I thought I’d lighten the mood in here with a funny tale of my horse.

I clean the cobwebs out of my barn roughly once a week. I take a long handle broom and go from one end of the barn to the other, doing the light fixtures, stall doors and mesh grates infront of the stalls. Most of the horse freak out when i do this, plastering themselves against the back wall of their stalls. Apparently the deadliest thing known to horses is a broom.

When I get to my horses stall, I go in and clean the cobwebs out of the actual stall (I’m just a boarder, so the rest of the horses will have to wait until their owners get off their butts, to have their stalls cleaned…I ain’t doin’ them all).

I can clean cobwebs with my horse actually IN the stall. He just stands there and looks at me…occassionally trying to nibble on the handle or sniff the bristles.

Well Thursday I was in there, and the guys must have just done shavings because my horse had an inch thick layer of sawdust on him from head to toe. One of the workers saw me in there and said that i shouldn’t be sweeping cobwebs with the horse in the stall cause my horse will freak out.

I then proceeded to SWEEP my horse from head to tail with the broom. He loved it!!! he stretched his neck out and flapped his lips. When I was done he looked at me like “Aww come on! just five more minutes?”

how many horses out there would let you SWEEP them clean?

[Lori]

I cannot live without my vacuum! I do the pony, the brushes and hey the dog when he is around!

“Come hup you hugly beast!” Surtees

[Jennasis]

I thought I’d lighten the mood in here with a funny tale of my horse.

I clean the cobwebs out of my barn roughly once a week. I take a long handle broom and go from one end of the barn to the other, doing the light fixtures, stall doors and mesh grates infront of the stalls. Most of the horse freak out when i do this, plastering themselves against the back wall of their stalls. Apparently the deadliest thing known to horses is a broom.

When I get to my horses stall, I go in and clean the cobwebs out of the actual stall (I’m just a boarder, so the rest of the horses will have to wait until their owners get off their butts, to have their stalls cleaned…I ain’t doin’ them all).

I can clean cobwebs with my horse actually IN the stall. He just stands there and looks at me…occassionally trying to nibble on the handle or sniff the bristles.

Well Thursday I was in there, and the guys must have just done shavings because my horse had an inch thick layer of sawdust on him from head to toe. One of the workers saw me in there and said that i shouldn’t be sweeping cobwebs with the horse in the stall cause my horse will freak out.

I then proceeded to SWEEP my horse from head to tail with the broom. He loved it!!! he stretched his neck out and flapped his lips. When I was done he looked at me like “Aww come on! just five more minutes?”

how many horses out there would let you SWEEP them clean?

[LMH]

taking this a step further-I have always considered buying a vaccuum…what kind do y’all have and how much did it cost??

Life is too short to dance with ugly men

[JR11]

and most of my horses (spooky or mean jumpers) that I’ve had freak out when it gets wheeled past them ("what there’s that dang huntr-y contraption? No. No. No. I LIKE to be dirty. No. I LIKE my mane lone. No. I LIKE my hat. No. No. I am not an overfed prince hunterthing with those them short manes (did you know when they braid them they do the forlock, too? the HORROR!) and things stuffed up into their ears.AHHHHHHHHHHHH NOT THE VACUUM!!!) But meatball is just like, c’mon. You know you want to. I’m not clean. Really. I could go roll in some poop if you want me to. Please use the vacuum. Please?

[Jane]

you can find special grooming vacuums in catalogs, but you can also use any home canister vacuum as long as you get the right attachments.

[M_O_Connor]

my youngest daughter is in her first week of kindergarten at Catholic school…

Came home yesterday…

“Mom, I got one time -out, but the teacher was wrong…I was not going to fall out of the window.”

Of, course not, whyever would the teacher think that!!!

then…demonstrating her mastery of the verses of the Lord’s prayer:

“…Forgive us for passing as we forgive those who just passed us…” UM, has this child spent too long in the back seat of my car?

[Eglinton]

We CANNOT cobweb the barn if the horses are in…that would cause mass mayhem!

[Cactuskate]

Jennasis, the picture of you sweeping your horse is too rich. I’m thinking Bud would take the same “position”. Nose in the air stretching as far out as possible, indicating “A little more to the left, no left I said, Yah right THERE.”

And M. O’Connor, “The World According to the Children”. Isn’t it fun seeing from their perspective. Thank you for sharing that.

It took me back to when my nephew Casey lived with me when he was 3. It was such a treat. He is now stationed at FT Hood, Texas and will probably be of the first to deploy. There hasn’t been a day go by that I don’t pray for him.

Thank you agian.

“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”

[Everythingbutwings]

as well as the broom. He is very inquisitive and has been turning the vacuum off and on since he was a weanling. As for the broom, he tries to grab it from me when I sweep the aisle in front of his stall.

It shouldn’t be unusual for a horse to get vacuumed, it is a quite common grooming item, especially in show stables. Desensitizing youngsters really helps with any noisy, suspicious contraption.

There is a nice anectote about Secretariat helping to clean his stall in one of the articles about his life.

[dogchushu]

I love that image of sweeping your horse with a broom! Mine just LOVES the vacuum. She practically drools with delight. I must confess that at times I’ve been too lazy to get that big old vacuum out and have resorted to pulling out the dust buster from my trunk. She doesn’t like it nearly as well, but it’s still enjoyable! My non-horsey father was amazed when I told him about vacuuming the horse. He said “you VACUUM those animals?” I think he had an image of a big Hoover upright being swept over the horse’s back!

[Jane]

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LOL! Can we get a picture of this? and no, I can’t think of any other horses that’d allow anyone to sweep them. BTW, I hope the guys don’t decide to try that themselves after watching you…

[JustJumpIt19]

I used to do it with my old Arab. He’d stand there for hours. My kitten loves to be swept, every time the broom comes out he plops down on the floor and waits!

~Courtney~

[AAJumper]

My friend was housesitting for a guy who had a cat. He specifically instructed him to brush the cat with a broom because he enjoyed it so much!