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Quitkick

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Product Code: SA_QUI_QUITKICK

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QuitKick stops your horse kicking its stall door

Your horse needs strong, healthy legs and hooves, and a stall door kicking or pawing habit is a very dangerous and risky behaviour. QuitKick has been designed by equine professionals to stop horses kicking stall doors. QuitKick is a simple, unique and easy to install solution to this destructive and harmful habit, a solution that requires zero training or teaching input. QuitKick uses controlled water jets and sensors to stop horses from kicking their stall doors, and can be used on any type of door. It is a remarkably effective solution to a serious equine problem.

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QuitKick is mounted on the outside of the stall door.

Once mounted on the outside of the door QuitKick detects when the door is kicked by your horse. When kicked, the device immediately sends two jets of water in a one second burst. The horse will back away from the door and very quickly learn to stop kicking the stall door.

Your horse is free to look out over or through the door as normal, and the unit will not activate unless the door is kicked. Your horse will believe that the water is activated solely by its own action of kicking the door so will stop doing it.

Through trials it has been found that typically horses stop kicking the stall door very soon after QuitKick is installed, although the actual time does vary from horse to horse.

Trials have shown that continual use of QuitKick will ensure reinforcement of the horses revised, non-door kicking, behavior.

Quitkick FAQs
Will QuitKick work on my horse? QuitKick has been on sale in Britain since 2008, and so far has proven to be 100% effective.

Will it stop other kicking behavior? Trials have shown that horses trained by QuitKick greatly reduce kicking habits outside of the stall, although QuitKick should only be used on stall doors. The fact is that horses are prone to kicking and QuitKick is not intended to stop any other kicking behavior. A new device, the third QuitKick, will be launched in March 2010, which, using the same priciples, will stop kicking on the back and side walls of stalls.

Can I move QuitKick on to another horse once the first horse has stopped kicking? The horse will quickly learn to associate the negative result with two things – kicking the door and the presence of the device. Horses typically will start kicking again if the device is removed, and we would recommend that it is not removed even after the behavior stops. However, for stables that have several problem horses, we recommend the use of dummy kits, available on our order page.

Does QuitKick work on any stall door? Yes. There are two versions of QuitKick - the Dutch / Yoke version, which is used on any door that allows the horse to look over, and the Mesh / Barred version, which works on any full height door that does not allow the horse to look over. The difference is twofold - they are fitted to the doors differently and the water jets fire in different directions. Both work on exactly the same principle and both are very simple to install.

Why is the device not attached directly to the door? The battery that powers QuitKick will last well beyond the point at which the behavior is corrected. However, it will require recharging even if not used for several days as the electronics continue to draw power from the battery. Clearly, we do not recommend that owners run cables through stables in order to recharge the battery, therefore the unit is attached to a back plate which is in turn attached to the door, making it easily removed for recharging in a safe environment.

Will using QuitKick result in an aggressive response from my horse? Rather than rear up in its stall, potentially harming the horse, when QuitKick is activated the horse will simply back away from the door. And although QuitKick is a negative enforcement device, the horse will not associate the negativity with a human being. The horse’s behavior and temperament in human contact situations is totally unaffected.

Will QuitKick interfere with my regular stall chores? QuitKick can be turned off, allowing you to go about your daily stall routine without setting the device off. The device is activated by a shock sensor rather than a movement sensor, so will not go off when the door is opened – provided it is opened gently.

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