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Posted on Sunday, Sep 3, 2000 - 11:16 pm:

An acquaintance of mine just bought a gelding two weeks ago that attacked her 9 year old daughter, sending her to the hospital. I went to see this horse, and he's definitely a weaver, as well as being vicious. I'm beginning to think that the sellers sedated him to hide his problems. They have refused to take the horse back. Over $7,000. was paid for this animal. We live in Colorado, are there any laws that state that weavers and cribbers must be identified ? I know that this poor animal didn't develop his problems in the last 2 weeks.

Posted on Monday, Sep 4, 2000 - 9:37 am:

Wow, that's awful. I don't know about laws but when your friend was inquiring about the horse did she ask if he had any vices? I really don't think weaving has to be disclosed. Unless it is asked specifically if the horse has any vices. If they asked that, then the horse was misrepresented. Not sure what legal grounds that makes for though.
I had a horse who would only weave if he was kept in more than 12 hours at a time. My horse liked his daily routine the same, or he would weave. Is this horse getting out of his stall?
~barbara

Posted on Monday, Sep 4, 2000 - 10:29 am:

I don't know about weaving but I believe it is against the law to misrepresent any thing you sell: but you need something in writing to be of much good.
DrO

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 5, 2000 - 11:52 am:

Lisa:
I remember reading in an book (a pretty old book, as I recall) that what we refer to as "vices" (such as cribbing, weaving, etc.) are actually considered unsoundness in horses. This may be an avenue if the horse was sold as sound . . . otherwise I think selling a vicious horse without disclosing that should be something the buyers could contest--misrepresentation, etc. Just a thought!!

Posted on Tuesday, Sep 5, 2000 - 5:41 pm:

Exactly what did the horse do that was vicious? Did your friend's daughter have experience handling horses? Every horse has the ability to injure someone if that someone doesn't have common horse sense.

As for the weaving, while most of you may think this is some HUGE fault, there are many extremely expensive and talented horses that have this vice that sell for enormous sums of money. Just like cribbers. Go into some of the fanciest show barns in the US, and you will find many of them.

But back to the subject. If your friend bought this horse and didn't get a vet exam and contract with purchase, then I don't think she has a leg to stand on.
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