… you end up with some redneck engineering.
After getting his cheek debrided from a serious staph infection he has a gaping wound left to heal. But, he would literally rub his face on anything and everything destroying all wraps within minutes. Hopefully he won’t break out of this!
Note: All duct tape is attached to wrap, not skin. None of the duct tape is touching the horse.
Looking forward to the updates of how long it lasted and what it looked like after the horse worked hard to remove it.
Impressive! I thought you were talking about legs. We have one that will chew off all leg wraps (even the backs, he’s talented that way). My daughter has gotten inventive coating them with different things to find stuff he doesn’t like. He thinks wraplast is the perfect seasoning. 
I have a dog that likes that Bitter Apple deterrent stuff so I totally laughed at your comment about the wraplast.
Good news! He kept it on for a whole day!
Now we’re trying for two.
Fingers crossed! 
Honestly, where would we be without duct tape and all its new versions? (Gorilla tape is my favorite for all things horse and it looks like that is what you have used in your fabulously innovative creation.)
I’m glad you mentioned the importance of a layer of gauze. My dog had a cyst removed on the lower side of his chest and the bandage kept sliding so I took him back to the vet. They re-bandaged it and wrapped it very well with vet wrap. Unfortunately, they applied some of the vet wrap directly onto him outside of the bandaged areas and without gauze. When they removed it, it tore/abraded his skin in areas where his hair was thinner toward his belly. So even vet wrap must have a protective gauze layer.
You got it! Gorilla tape is always my go-to. This one is the fancy all-weather type that I hope will withstand my boy’s craziness.
That is strange. Vet wrap only sticks to itself, not to hair or skin.
The vet wrap the vet hospital had used for my guy actually did have some sort of adhesive which pulled hair off when I removed it. I just use the standard Tractor Supply variety which does not do that.
That’s what I thought when they did it; I did notice when I brought him home that it touched his skin but I figured it was fine, thinking, “they must know what they are doing.” When it was removed, it left a red mark the shape of the tape, more or less rectangular with straight edges, and it damaged his skin enough that it was raw and bled a little along the edges. At first, I thought it was just red but then I realized it was raw. As it scabbed over, the wounded area was clearly visible and unmistakeable. It took a while to heal and was painful.
I felt bad because my horse’s vet told me to always have gauze under the vet wrap and leave a little uncovered gauze along the edges when wrapping a leg. I should have listened to my horse vet and questioned the small animal vet techs, especially since the skin on my Weimaraners chest was more delicate and covered with finer hair than my horse’s leg which is covered in denser hair.
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