Re: Exceptional Artwork On Horses
1. My horses have NEVER had to be sedated for clipping, nor have I ever heard of a horse having to be sedated for body clipping.
If there is sedation involved, it is likely to clip the insides of horses ears, which having no hair inside the ears is a stupid show rule for certain classes.
If folks read the entire article in the original post, the young lady started clipping her childhood pony when it developed Cushings disease. Cushings in horses means the pituitary gland has started to horribly malfunction and one of those malfunctions is NOT ALLOWING the horse to shed its hair in a normal manner in the Spring and Fall.
The owner could let the horse go and watch it suffocate from heat, orrrr the owner could shave all the offending hair off.
I suppose I should have been turned in for tuxedo clipping my elder horse when he stopped shedding properly???? I could have let him swelter in all that hair, or I could do what I did -- the humane thing of partially clipping him to keep him cool and while I was at it I might just as well make the clip look like a tuxedo ----
In this instance the young lady got creative with clipping her Cushings pony (which I highly doubt needed sedated), and that creativity expanded as she got older.
I don't see the problem as long as the owners of these clipped horses understand the horses need coverings to protect them from the elements.