Pawing Appliance 



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Pawing with the forefeet. — This is a disagreeable 

 habit, usually due to insufficient exercise or to rest- 

 lessness when the animal is left alone in the stable. 

 It causes useless fatigue and a rapid wearing out of 



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Fig. 93. — Appliance to prevent pawing. 



the shoes. The noise that the horse makes while paw- 

 ing is almost unbearable, especially at night. To 

 avoid the habit, exercise the horse regularly. To 

 overcome it, buckle a leg-strap around the foreleg just 

 above the knee, and from it suspend a block of 

 wood, about two inches square and four inches 



