>>> Klunk! Donny washed Trausti's sheath? Wow...that's right up there with >>> washing a >>> chicken. Man...Janice do you know how lucky you are? I've always had to >>> do that, and >>> in between I clean them up with baby wipes...
Wait....! This isn't just any sheath, it's TRAUSTI'S sheath. Wonderful, patient, easy-going stoic horse that he is, Trausti had one issue that we never fully worked through - having his sheath cleaned. I've never seen a gelding that was really difficult to clean before I met him, but he was difficult. I don't know what it is about him, but he's always gotten HORRIBLE crusty gunk on his thingy, worse than any horse I've ever seen. And it's hard, crusty junk, stuck like glue, or maybe more like hardened cement, which makes it really hard to get off, which in turn no doubt makes him very sore, which makes him even less happy about having hands in that area. The last two times he had his teeth floated, I had the vet clean it thoroughly while he was sedated, and even then, he'd wince. We had been working on getting him less flinchy, by putting KY jelly (actually "J-Jelly" from Jeffers - cheaper and available in quanities) up in the sheath periodically to soften the crud. But, for Donny to have cleaned his sheath so soon after he met them, I'm truly amazed. Maybe Trausti trusted a guy to be more sensitive, since guys seem to identify with such. I'm pretty sure that Cary has never cleaned a gelding's sheath. Donny rocks! Karen Thomas, NC
