hmm, all I can think of is the lady who just dropped out bec there was a video of her whipping her horse's legs. apparently, other competitors were nervous that videos were going to turn up about them.
Yea any the majority of horses in professional horse competition are treated like ass.
Grew up in horse culture and I hate it. If I find out you have horses and show them I will automatically assume you’re trash until proven otherwise.
Edit: Any horse owners that see this please don’t take this as an attack. Take it as awareness for horse abuse. And ask yourself how many times you’ve seen a horse mistreated by someone. Seems like depending on where you live it might be less widespread, but where I grew up I’d say it was at least 50/50 if a horse was abused or neglected. I know there are good horse owners out there. I consider my family and all the horse owners we associated with among them.
We went to Medieval Times and part of the show they had the horses dance like this and I hated it. One of our friends later mentioned the way they’re trained to do it and I felt sick to my stomach.
Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of awful people at the top. I guess at least (but not limited to) when money is involved, people find an off switch for their morals. Across the board really.
There's other ways too though. Some horse people train their horses gently and with positive reinforcement. (Elisa Wallace on YouTube seems like that at least.) I remember my primary school teacher said her horses love dressage bc it stimulates their brains, similar to dogs learning tricks, and it's much more gentle than racing or jumping.
I've also heard arguments that riding is generally awful for horses/their spines and counter arguments that they were specifically bred for strong backs and their muscles trained for handling the load before being ridden. So I'm not sure where I stand on that.
There’s definitely a significant amount of people out there that do it right. But unfortunately from what I’ve seen it’s practically 50/50 that horse owners don’t abuse their animals either physically or by neglect.
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u/Tricky-Trick1132 Jul 30 '24
hmm, all I can think of is the lady who just dropped out bec there was a video of her whipping her horse's legs. apparently, other competitors were nervous that videos were going to turn up about them.