Stable vices are far too common in horses/ponies and are mostly due to a mixture of boredom and stress related situations. They vary from mild forms of intermittant activity such as door banging or mild weaving to severe conditions of cribbiting, weaving, stable walking.

Many of these conditions can result in your horse/pony causing damage to itself. For example,a door banger may result in having soft swellings develop on one or both knees. This does not usually cause a performance problem but it can result in a reduction in sale value due to cosmetic reasons, or may, in the future lead to problems with arthritis.

There are a whole range of ideas and treatments that you can use to aid the treatment of your horse/pony's problem but many can be expensive and look rather cruel.

So, why not try the

For a Weaver:
Using a piece of baler twine from a bale of hay, tie two Monstalix together and hang them from the middle of the middle of the stable door so that they are hanging down. When you horse/pony tries to weave, firstly the monstalix will swing around which will put him off but better than that he can play with the monstalix and hopefully reduce his weaving.

Stable Door Banging:
This mostly appears at feedtime when your horse/pony is impatient about being fed. So why not give him something that is tasty and fun to play with that he can munch on while waiting to be fed.

Crib Biting:
Crib Biting is mostly a boredom problem and your horse/pony will try and crib on anything that is solid especially the top of a stable door or even a food bowl.
Monstalix can help be providing a diversion - place one in the feed bowl and hag one up near his normal cribbing location and hopefully his attention will be diverted to playing with the monstalix and not ruining your stable door.

Stable Walking:
Well, this is a difficult one as it is usually stress related rather than boredom instigated. Currently, we have not yet tried a Monstalix with a stable walker so we have no experience to call on, but we can only suggest that with other stable vices the sheer presence of a Monstalix and its smell will cause the horse to pause and take a nibble. Hopefully, this will break its pattern and may well reduce its stable walking.

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