I may have just accidentally flagged this post, but I meant to like it 4x! (If someone could fix the proximity of the flag button to the like button that might be even more helpful than moving the bucket away from the hot wire).
So - I just am here to apologize lest I flagged in err.
No matter what the bucket was hung on, I still maintain that putting a feed bucket on the same fence that has hotwire is an accident waiting to happen, especially when you add in humans doing things like blanketing. I am not even sure my horses would eat out of the bucket.
That’s my guess as well, but I’ve tried to refrain from speculating about it because I figured as soon as I did, I’d be accused of “ASSuming” and be soundly admonished for doing so and told how wrong I am and how I don’t know what I’m talking about.
But yeah. I figure if the horse was never blanketed and had to spend the night exposed to the elements due to this woman’s incompetence, that would have been included in the complaint. If the woman got the horse blanketed despite him hitting the hot wire and spooking, it kind of flies in the face of the claim that she was “unqualified” to do the job. She did the job. She did it in a difficult situation. If human, horse, and blanket all made it through unscathed with blanket securely on horse, then the argument that this person was not qualified to blanket a horse flies out the window.
If it was in a Craigslist ad we would all know it meant unmanageable or unpredictable. Might jump out of its pasture, might do airs above the ground when being blanketed.
“Would be a great gymkhana prospect.” 
No argument here. I was just hoping to head off the tangent SuzieQ was starting with the “on” the hotwire comment. It appears I failed. 
Sorry I didn’t reply quick enough, I went to visit a friend, played Upwords, put together a letter to our Solicitor, watched a movie, took him to a Drs appointment, walked twice to the bank as work underpaid me $5.00, so I went back. I posted the letter, I did 2 grocery deliveries, I did a mystery shop, picked friend up and took him to the chemist. We had lunch and played Upwords, while I put the mystery shop report in.
We drove to the next suburb, I put $20.00 in the bank, he went fruit shopping. I picked up drain sticks for the clogged drain in the bathroom, I dropped him at the library. I went to the Chiropractor, I arrived 4 minutes early, then I took my friend home.
I arrived home after hubby, so I followed him down the driveway. I fed horses, he fed us and according to my watch I slept a blissful over 7 hours of sleep.
I think I said above, I found myself standing a good distance back from my mother’s fencing and hers were not even electrified.
So cattle, horses and I, so I will say people, have been trained to not go near a hot wire. We have been trained to not even go near a fence.
I would not be moving a horse’s feedbin to or on or anywhere near a hot wire. I do not feed horses on any fence. I have rubber feedbins that have no attachments and can be fed anywhere on the ground, even in the middle of the paddock.
Feeding a horse on the ground, as it is natural, is said to be better for them, than them eating with their heads higher.
Our horses are taught to stand still, when we use the word halt. That is with or without a feedbin.
Anyone can rug them, even if it is their first time rugging a horse. It is not rocket science.
They are taught to lift their heads, from their feed bins, so I can do up the chest strap. I tell them to take a big mouthful and they lift up again for the 3 buckles on the neckrug.
If there is no feed bin. They stand, not grazing, so their head is up anyway.
Our horses do not chew wood.
At the moment they are failing miserably to uniformly graze the grass. On the news people are taking it into their own hands to mow public parks, so as people can use them, as the Council can not keep up with the explosion of grass everywhere.
Driving at the moment is very pretty, with green even right up to the top of high hills.
My horses do look athletic when it is cold and they want to warm up. One is this side of 20 yo, one is the other side of 20 yo.
They are tb. Tb’s are hot breeds. They react a lot quicker to things than a quarter horse which is a warm breed.
So theoretically if a horse is going to react to an unqualified blanketing person, it would be a TB or an Arab, which are the 2 hot breeds.
That does not seem to be happening in this thread. So that theory is debunked before it even starts.
I actually think the bucket was “on” the fence with the hotwire, not a feedpan near it, based on what OP has said. In response to me (post 484) she said
Given Dobbin just picking his head out of the bucket is enough to touch the hotwire running atop a fence, the bowl would have to be kinda high.
Yeah I don’t quite understand why anyone would hang a feeder from a hot wire. That said, Feronia gets her feed in a feed pan on the ground that is slid under the electric fence (which is off most of the time, but still…) So she’s 2 to 3 feet away from it while eating. BTW this a very sturdy fence, not just hot wire or tape on plastic posts.
I would introduce you to Princess Butterball, my QH who is only 1/4 TB who could show you faster reaction times than a cutting horse when you least expect it. 99% of the time she’s a total doll, it’s the 1% that will get you.
Exactly, what I wanted to post in the rearing thread.
The horse is perfectly fine until the .34567th of a second that it is not.
Nothing here is worth responding to.
BS posts like these are why I’m no longer responding here.
You know nothing about what “flies out the window” but you and others will think you do. And comment on COTH. So “interesting” separate from “knowledgeable”. Thanks for “interesting” comments Noted.
You’re an example of someone who wants to post with “knowledge”, but can’t. Dobbin just picking his head up to touch the hotwire has nothing at all to do with the situation. There’s so much misinformation posted here that this thread has become worthless.
Such shit about “Dobbin”. Or the actual horse. The knowledgeable responders left this thread, I will, too.
Once again you could clear all of this up with a simple response and instead you start slinging insults. Was his food on the ground near the fence or somehow attached to the fence?
Dobbin picking his head up and touching wire is quite literally the basis of your complaint! According to you, staffer managed to do blanketing so wrong that it made Dobbin “lift his head out of his precious food bowl and hit hotwire” (your words, not mine). That is your complaint!
There isn’t a bunch of misinformation here, there is just a bunch of advice, information, and opinions that you don’t agree with. Which, cool, its useless to you and could be useful to others. I certainly learned some things, which is great because that’s why I read these forums.
I don’t know your horse’s name so Dobbin was the generic nameplacer. And I somehow doubt that my lil post is going to break your month-long streak of arguing with everyone.
Flounce! My Bingo card is full.
You could call him sir spooksalot, which is how she refers to him… Which … says a lot 
Did think of doing that but that felt… snarky/passive-aggressive, and I try to minimize the snarkiness in my messages on this forum. Unlike other corners of the internet, most people in threads are looking for information or giving information, giving it a somewhat more formal tone than, let’s say, Reddit.
Sorry, all of this has been addressed. Multiple times. You can’t summarize the situation accurately due to the crap on this thread.
Yet your snarkiness here comes through so well with your response to such a person.
You are why I rarely visit this toxic post. I’m sorry to the people who gave me good advice. I think we can all see the toxicity that some people enjoy that took over. And how many people didn’t read the actual thread.
Thanks for those who offered constructive advice, I really appreciate itl
Actually, if anything is unclear it’s mostly because you just don’t answer people’s questions. A “hey did /A/ happen or /B/?” is constantly met with “I answered this”, “You just didn’t read all 400+ comments”, “That isn’t important”, and other such deflections. You could have simply told me I was wrong and feed pan was in /X/ location. Instead, you (again) just argue with everyone.
Hey, I said I tried to keep the snarkiness down, not be completely snark-free. I’m snarky in normal conversation anywho!
The longer a thread goes on, the less likely people are to read every single comment (or remember the content). Asking questions later (even if they’ve been answered before) is not the end of the world. You can ignore them and other commenters who know the answer will probably respond.
And look at you actin’ like you’re above the drama. You visit this post nearly daily to respond. Let’s see if the thread will finally die.
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