[drivingpairs] Re: Washer and Horse Drying




 Hi Jay!
 
 My ponies were used to being vacuumed when I got them, but I didn't have a
 horse vacuum. I tried the "other" kind (shop vac)and almost sucked their
 hide off! So I can't recommend using the house vac or shop vac. Never
 thought about the
 leaf blower though. Aren't they huge? I'll have to go look at mine...er,
 ours. Can you tell it isn't my "job"? ;-)
 Anne in CT
 Off to work now, in our first snow/ice of the season!
 
 From: "Jay Hubert" <jhubert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:43 PM
 Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: Washer and Horse Drying
 
 
 Ansley, I started with a shop vac, and I still use it occasionally as a
 training
 tool. Gets them used to the noise.  As soon as they are OK with the vac, I
 turn it
 around to blow and do that a couple of times.  Then I graduate to the leaf
 blower.
 The big test for me came early on, when I use the leaf blower AFTER
 vacuuming as
 usual, and got LOTS of dust in the air!

 On this topic on another list someone asked me where the dust went.  Well,
 it
 starts out flying up into the air but then settles out onto the ground,
 the same
 as brushing would.

 BTW, I start the process with a rubber curry so loosen things up a bit.

 Give it a shot, but work your animals up to the noise.

 FWIW

 Jay E. Hubert


 

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