Please please be careful tying your dog

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I'll add to the sad stories.

Dont leave collars on your goats.

I had a FB SA registered Boer doe, a show doe, really gorgeous and very expensive animal. I was milking her daily as she had only one kid and too much milk.

I left a collar on her to make it easier to catch her for milking morning and night.

One morning I came out and discovered she had hung herself; she'd been standing up on the peach tree in her yard eating leaves, got the collar hooked on a branch stub, lost her footing and couldnt get it again, and hung herself.

Dont leave collars on your goats

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

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Yes how true...another reminder in which happened to my father when he was young is he had tied his horse to a fence on a slight slope went to the barn to get something to continue the ride and came back to a dead horse...he figured she tripped and snapped her neck...

 

[gaited horse]

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gree with you i won't evan put me horse in the trailer with a saddle on for fear of getting tangled.

 

[Cara]

If that's not reason enough, my FIL has a beautiful tooled saddle that he received for 25 years service to the ranch. He had it on his horse in the trailer, and the colt next to him took a great big bite out of it!

 

[gaited horse]

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Yikes that saddle sounds like a bad thing to be wreaked. thank you for this warning to everyone.

 

[Emzyyy]

Minnie a Boston Terrier we had when I was little used to jump the fence so my mom tied her up so she couldn't reach the fence well she chewed through the rope and jumped the fence and it got caught and she hung herself very sad to see something like that.