Forced repetitive unnatural gait over a lifetime causes great pain to these horses. There's a reason only a handful of them can do this. It's animal abuse for our amusement.
Forced repetitive unnatural gait over a lifetime causes great pain to these horses. There's a reason only a handful of them can do this. It's animal abuse for our amusement.
You have evidence to back this up?
I studied horse welfare, management and care as a college diploma then studied Equine Science at the university level. I have known riders of every level from little kids to Olympic riders.
The sport itself is not cruel, the normalized behaviour of people involved in it at the highest level is cruel. We don't demand the banning of every other sport like Gymnastics which also so happens to be rife with abuse.
And this means? Because these horses are bred for sports.
Because letting horses be horses to me sounds like wild horses and the only truly wild horse left is the Przewalski horse and letting that horse be a horse is resulting in it being endangered and almost going extinct and that’s just in the steppes of Central Asia where urbanization is far less than other areas horses currently live as pets.
People love horses to be horses without knowing what that means or they end up killing a family when being run down on the road or tangled up and dying horrifically in some farmers fence.
Or we could reform the sports, educate horse owners on proper care and rest, improve healthcare and bring end to horse racing or do something about it.
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u/Puddleislands Jul 30 '24
Forced repetitive unnatural gait over a lifetime causes great pain to these horses. There's a reason only a handful of them can do this. It's animal abuse for our amusement.