To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Hobbles
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:58:04 -0500
I'd like to ditto that.
At the PA horse expo last year there was a man/woman trail team that travels
with mules. They gave a demonstration with the two in the round pen. They
"pegged" the mule with a single hobble (if that is what one leg would be
called). The animal demonstrated his calm when the rope wound around thru
his legs, over his head etc.
They would move the peg as needed each night when camping in the same area,
so that the animal would each time have a new area to graze.
Both were well traveled mules, accustomed to this technique. I pretty much
went bug eyed at how neat it was.