Leroy - professor of blanket demolition

I know it has been forever and a day since my last post, but Samantha reminded me and i need to be blogging and I though I would vent .... I mean blog about my dearest Leroy.

Leroy is now the professor of blanket demolition. Not because he has managed to destroy $200 in blankets in the last 3 weeks. But because he is now working on teaching the other horses how to do the same. I keep a light waterproof sheet over his blanket to discourage him from making blanket death threats because he likes to tug at the front of his blanket with his teeth and he always rips the stitching/piping along the bottom usually he will then just grab at it and play with it without much further damage. Until a couple weeks ago that is, when my mom took it off and said "he doesn't like it because it makes him look like a girl" (it's polka dotted) I explain to her that he likes to eat his blanket and that's the only thing that keeps it safe. 3 days later he has ripped the piping along the entire right side of the blanket along with tearing across the butt and some other rips... You would think the horse got attacked by a lion. But I assure you... No lions.

So with that blanket shredded I thought it was kind of crummy but at least it lasted all of last winter with only 2 repairs needed. So I borrow a blanket from a friend, put the polka dots on top and tell my mom not to mess with it because I will buy him a new sheet but he has to not rip the borrowed blanket. 2 days later I have bought a new blanket and he has done his typical chest to shoulder rip on the borrowed blanket.

I then give him his new blanket (which is not waterproof) and the polka dotted sheet and assure him I'm working on a "less girly" sheet. A week goes by... No damage. Woo hoo!
New sheet arrives while I am out of town for 4 days but my mom puts it on him and tells me it looks really nice.
2 days later she tells me he is naked... I haven't yet seen the damage but I was told it happened in stages. First the new sheet was dragging on he ground somehow (shredded maybe?) them the blanket underneath was dragging on the ground at some other point while I was gone.
Tomorrow I will asses the damage and update anyone reading this.

I am told that some of his pasture mates blankets have similar battle wounds and that it appears he is either helping others to remove their blankets or teaching them to do it themselves.

Now I must decide between slathering the blankets in Tobasco sauce or making him ride out the winter with no clothes. I think the deciding factor will be my anger level when I see the damage to the new blankets.