Crystal over at Crystal and Cookie writes about giving her horse a trim with the clippers yesterday.

First thing, I clipped Missy. She hadn’t been body clipped in a long time and is sensitive about some parts, so I was cautious about how she was gonna be. I planned on doing this over a series of days, doing what I can each day. Anyway, she was completely, awesomely behaved.

All of my horses have wooly ears and whiskery muzzles. Their fetlocks are shaggy. We are quite uncivilized over here. They're not stabled, but pastured with a loafing shed. And we don't show. At least right now we don't. The last time I clipped someone was when we took Caprichosa to show and tell at school! Crystal's post has reminded me that desensitizing a couple of my horses to the clippers would be a good winter project.