Detangling A Matted Tail

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"In March of 2008, I acquired a thoroughbred mare. This picture shows how she arrived at my facility. She was a sweet, gentle mare but she had the worst matt in her tail I had ever seen. Her entire tail moved as one piece as she would switch at flies. It was like a giant dreadlock."

"It took about an hour and a half to de-matt this tail. Now, if she had been an ill-tempered, flighty or fidgety and I thought I would be in danger being behind her I would not have bothered with it."

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"Funny enough once this mare’s tail was detangled she flicked it around a few times and actually spooked herself. She then spent the next 15 min or so kicking out at the now untangled hairs grazing her hind legs."

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"It was as if she had had the knot for so long, she was no longer desensitized to the feeling of the individual hairs touching her legs."

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"Exactly 1 month after we took the first picture, this was the horse for her photoshoot. This photo shows why no horse should be discounted based on first impressions."

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