[Duchess47]

I don't know that they are safer, it's just easier for us because we have cross ties in the barn and at the wash rack. Otherwise it would have to be to the trailer and that they could slide under.

The one plus the cross ties have is the footing is less secure for them in that they are on concrete, not dirt.

I don't think they actually learn to stand tied until they fight it and can't get loose.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

That's pretty much the reason for my question:) I think they all are going to fight it. I just wondered if there was an age that lowered the risk of neck injury.

I've always got Belle in the back of my mind. I don't know for sure, but I've always wondered if she doesn't have some kind of neck injury, that causes her problems. I know she was tied alot in cross ties that where short so alot of her weight hung on her neck. (I didn't do that, previous owners did). I got her when she was just 3.

Becky

[CindyDawg]

Today at the auction they had safety release straps . Two kinds. The regular nylon and one with an elastic tie wrap in between. There was a lunge rope with the same. Do you know why? Are they for horses you have difficulty tieing? We need a pair but it just seemed to me that it was one more weak link that could be broken.