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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.

QuitKick produces a totally consistent action and response program that human interaction cannot replicate.
Installing QuitKick not only gives horse owners peace of mind, knowing that their horse will not injure itself or damage their stall door, it will also have no impact on their ongoing relationship with their horse.

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

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. The horse will only associate the negative consequences of its behavior with its own actions rather than its owner or handler. 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.

In addition to units for Dutch doors and fully enclosed doors, Dummy QuitKicks are available for barns with more than one door-kicking horse. The dummy can be switched for the real unit as each horse’s behavior is modified.