Do you want your horse to calm down with a piece of tack? This is something new to me! A face mask that brings the horse's nerves down.
I've heard of thunder blankets for dogs during fireworks, heavy blankets for people with autism, and I know swaddling helps babies. So it's only logical that we can calm horses with some sort of wrap.
Now you can buy a spandex (titanium) mask for riding for 120$ . Some are calling it the placebo mask. If you feel it's helping your horse calm down, you'll be calmer.
You can get them with or without padded ear coverings, to further block out stimuli.
Linda Tellington-Jones, who I've respected since 1987 with her TTouch work on my horse Baasha, has lately employed medical wraps around a horse's head and body to simulate physical awareness during groundwork. I put Mag through a wrap session and see no problem with it. Now I wonder if this mask thing was based on her body wrap work.
However I'm calling this the placebo mask cuz....I just can't call it anything else: )
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