<![CDATA[QuitKick USA, LLC : Latest News]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store Sun, 20 May 2012 04:35:41 +0000 <![CDATA[Press Release February 2011]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/6/Press_Release_February_2011.html Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:47:17 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/6/Press_Release_February_2011.html Feb 17, 2011 09:01 ET

Preventable Stall Vices Cost Horse Owners Thousands of Dollars Every Year

Dover Saddlery and QuitKick USA Survey Reveals the Extent, Damage and Cost of Stall Door Pawing, Stall Kicking

LOUISVILLE, KY--(Marketwire - February 17, 2011) - An extensive survey carried out by the world's largest equine retailer, Dover Saddlery, and equine safety equipment maker QuitKick USA reveals that the damage and injury caused by stall door pawing and stall kicking costs individual US horse owners thousands of dollars each year.

Dover Saddlery and QuitKick surveyed over 6,000 boarding facilities representing over 110,000 horses. The results show that not only are stall vices extremely commonplace, they are also dangerous, costly and go largely unchecked.

More than 55% of all facilities have horses that paw their stall doors, while 45% have horses that kick the inside walls of their stalls. Over 60% of all facilities have horses with at least one of these destructive vices.

Many owners who have horses with these habits do nothing about them -- yet over 50% have experienced costs or injury to their horses as a result of these habits going unchecked. Most common costs include farrier bills, damage to stalls and veterinary bills. In some cases these habits have resulted in euthanasia.

The survey also revealed that only 25% of owners carry insurance, most of which only covers mortality, meaning that for injuries almost all horse owners are self-insured. The financial cost of stall damage or an injured horse, regardless of the significant distress to the animal and its owner, can easily run into thousands of dollars per year.

Speaking about the survey, QuitKick veterinary consultant Dr Susan Armstrong said: "Owners or trainers of horses with habits such as stall kicking and door pawing should be aware that they are not benign behaviors and can cause severe injury to equine limbs and hooves. Although these habits and the resulting injuries are rarely studied or widely reported, owners and trainers should take the possible consequences of door kicking and pawing seriously and endeavor to prevent such behavior."

"This survey only clarifies the need for an effective product like ours," added QuitKick USA Managing Director Andrew Dewson. "Individual horse owners can save thousands of dollars a year simply by installing a QuitKick."

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Preventable Stall Vices Cost Horse Owners Thousands of Dollars Every Year

Dover Saddlery and QuitKick USA Survey Reveals the Extent, Damage and Cost of Stall Door Pawing, Stall Kicking

LOUISVILLE, KY--(Marketwire - February 17, 2011) - An extensive survey carried out by the world's largest equine retailer, Dover Saddlery, and equine safety equipment maker QuitKick USA reveals that the damage and injury caused by stall door pawing and stall kicking costs individual US horse owners thousands of dollars each year.

Dover Saddlery and QuitKick surveyed over 6,000 boarding facilities representing over 110,000 horses. The results show that not only are stall vices extremely commonplace, they are also dangerous, costly and go largely unchecked.

More than 55% of all facilities have horses that paw their stall doors, while 45% have horses that kick the inside walls of their stalls. Over 60% of all facilities have horses with at least one of these destructive vices.

Many owners who have horses with these habits do nothing about them -- yet over 50% have experienced costs or injury to their horses as a result of these habits going unchecked. Most common costs include farrier bills, damage to stalls and veterinary bills. In some cases these habits have resulted in euthanasia.

The survey also revealed that only 25% of owners carry insurance, most of which only covers mortality, meaning that for injuries almost all horse owners are self-insured. The financial cost of stall damage or an injured horse, regardless of the significant distress to the animal and its owner, can easily run into thousands of dollars per year.

Speaking about the survey, QuitKick veterinary consultant Dr Susan Armstrong said: "Owners or trainers of horses with habits such as stall kicking and door pawing should be aware that they are not benign behaviors and can cause severe injury to equine limbs and hooves. Although these habits and the resulting injuries are rarely studied or widely reported, owners and trainers should take the possible consequences of door kicking and pawing seriously and endeavor to prevent such behavior."

"This survey only clarifies the need for an effective product like ours," added QuitKick USA Managing Director Andrew Dewson. "Individual horse owners can save thousands of dollars a year simply by installing a QuitKick."

]]> <![CDATA[Horses Magazine likes QuitKick!]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/5/Horses_Magazine_likes_QuitKick%21.html Wed, 12 May 2010 16:33:12 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/5/Horses_Magazine_likes_QuitKick%21.html Getting reviews of new products into magazines isn't always easy. Well, if your name is Sony or Apple or any other multi-billion dollar brand, perhaps it is easy. However, this is the first complete review of QuitKick in the May 2010 edition of Horses Magazine, on page 13 if you have the magazine.

Needless to say we are delighted that the review is so positive - getting people to believe our product does what we say it will do is the hardest part of starting out, but clearly the reviewer agrees with us.

We hope to hear from The Horse Journal soon regarding their testing and review of QuitKick, so look out for it and we will post their thoughts as soon as we have them.


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]]> Getting reviews of new products into magazines isn't always easy. Well, if your name is Sony or Apple or any other multi-billion dollar brand, perhaps it is easy. However, this is the first complete review of QuitKick in the May 2010 edition of Horses Magazine, on page 13 if you have the magazine.

Needless to say we are delighted that the review is so positive - getting people to believe our product does what we say it will do is the hardest part of starting out, but clearly the reviewer agrees with us.

We hope to hear from The Horse Journal soon regarding their testing and review of QuitKick, so look out for it and we will post their thoughts as soon as we have them.


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]]> <![CDATA[QuitKick heading to Wellington 2010]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/4/QuitKick_heading_to_Wellington_2010.html Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:24:45 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/4/QuitKick_heading_to_Wellington_2010.html
QuitKick will be heading down to sunny (we hope) Florida for the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Click here for more details.

The FTI Winter Equestrian Festival is one of the most important events on the equestrian calendar - perhaps even more so this year with the 2010 World Equestrian Games coming to this country for the first time in September.

So, we will be heading down to Florida during the week of March 1st - 5th to showcase QuitKick and to meet as many competitors and spectators as possible. The Wellington Festival will be the ideal location to reach out to many horse owners, competitors and equine professionals as we can, teaching them about QuitKick and learning a thing or two about them as well.

We will be hosted by our friends at FarmVet, in their retail trailer. Please come along and visit us - dates and times will be confirmed later this month. 

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QuitKick will be heading down to sunny (we hope) Florida for the 2010 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Click here for more details.

The FTI Winter Equestrian Festival is one of the most important events on the equestrian calendar - perhaps even more so this year with the 2010 World Equestrian Games coming to this country for the first time in September.

So, we will be heading down to Florida during the week of March 1st - 5th to showcase QuitKick and to meet as many competitors and spectators as possible. The Wellington Festival will be the ideal location to reach out to many horse owners, competitors and equine professionals as we can, teaching them about QuitKick and learning a thing or two about them as well.

We will be hosted by our friends at FarmVet, in their retail trailer. Please come along and visit us - dates and times will be confirmed later this month. 

]]> <![CDATA[A Busy Start to 2010]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/3/A_Busy_Start_to_2010.html Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:24:09 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/3/A_Busy_Start_to_2010.html
We are looking forward to a busy start to the new decade, particularly with several features on QuitKick coming up in national equine publications. Click here for more details.

As anyone who has worked in magazines will know, getting published often requires great patience. Many magazines are planned months in advance and, as a former jounralist myself, I know how reluctant people are to change what is in the pipeline! However, we are looking forward to some excellent media coverage in the first few months of 2010.

Over the coming weeks look out for coverage of QuitKick in Horselink Magazine, Modren Arabian Horse, The Trail Rider, Stable Management, Polo Player's Edition, Horseman's Yankee Pedlar and Horse Illustrated. The latter, the largest circulation equine publication in the USA with almost 180,000 monthly readers, is particularly exciting, although of course we are very grateful to all of the journalists who have taken an interest in our products.

The Horse Journal, the "bible" for testing equine products, is also running a roadtest on QuitKick and we hope to hear their views later in the year, perhaps around Easter time. With luck, that will conincide with the publication of Dover Saddlery's catalog, which features a three-quarter page spread on QuitKick. That catalog goes out to 5 million customers - exciting times ahead!

We will continue to update our website with any press coverage that we receive. Please look out for us and spread the QuitKick word!

Wishing all of our customers, friends and colleagues a happy and prosperous New Year!

Andrew Dewson

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We are looking forward to a busy start to the new decade, particularly with several features on QuitKick coming up in national equine publications. Click here for more details.

As anyone who has worked in magazines will know, getting published often requires great patience. Many magazines are planned months in advance and, as a former jounralist myself, I know how reluctant people are to change what is in the pipeline! However, we are looking forward to some excellent media coverage in the first few months of 2010.

Over the coming weeks look out for coverage of QuitKick in Horselink Magazine, Modren Arabian Horse, The Trail Rider, Stable Management, Polo Player's Edition, Horseman's Yankee Pedlar and Horse Illustrated. The latter, the largest circulation equine publication in the USA with almost 180,000 monthly readers, is particularly exciting, although of course we are very grateful to all of the journalists who have taken an interest in our products.

The Horse Journal, the "bible" for testing equine products, is also running a roadtest on QuitKick and we hope to hear their views later in the year, perhaps around Easter time. With luck, that will conincide with the publication of Dover Saddlery's catalog, which features a three-quarter page spread on QuitKick. That catalog goes out to 5 million customers - exciting times ahead!

We will continue to update our website with any press coverage that we receive. Please look out for us and spread the QuitKick word!

Wishing all of our customers, friends and colleagues a happy and prosperous New Year!

Andrew Dewson

]]> <![CDATA[Veterinary advice]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/2/Veterinary_advice.html Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:23:27 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/2/Veterinary_advice.html
A leading British veterinary surgeon describes QuitKick as "invaluable" to horses. Click here for more details.

With any new healthcare product, advice and support from from medical professionals is always crucial. That applies to the equine world as well, so we are delighted to have received some comments about QuitKick from one of the leading British equine veterinary practices, Priors Farm Equine Veterinary Surgery.

Priors Farm is based in Hassocks, East Sussex, very close to Hickstead, home of the All England Jumping Course.

Head vet Ben Chillvers describes QuitKick as being "invaluable" to the horses he treats. Please click on our Why should I Install QuitKick page for more details.

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A leading British veterinary surgeon describes QuitKick as "invaluable" to horses. Click here for more details.

With any new healthcare product, advice and support from from medical professionals is always crucial. That applies to the equine world as well, so we are delighted to have received some comments about QuitKick from one of the leading British equine veterinary practices, Priors Farm Equine Veterinary Surgery.

Priors Farm is based in Hassocks, East Sussex, very close to Hickstead, home of the All England Jumping Course.

Head vet Ben Chillvers describes QuitKick as being "invaluable" to the horses he treats. Please click on our Why should I Install QuitKick page for more details.

]]> <![CDATA[New testimonials!]]> http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/1/New_testimonials%21.html Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:40:32 +0000 http://www.quitkickusa.com/store/news/1/New_testimonials%21.html We are delighted to have heard from some satisfied QuitKick customers, and we are always looking to add new testimonials to our website. So we have added one to our front page, which you can see, and another couple to our testimonials page. Please have a look at the page - and yes, we can assure you that they are all genuine!

]]> We are delighted to have heard from some satisfied QuitKick customers, and we are always looking to add new testimonials to our website. So we have added one to our front page, which you can see, and another couple to our testimonials page. Please have a look at the page - and yes, we can assure you that they are all genuine!

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