Debbi wrote:
I have to agree. People who know about this kind ofI can't speak to the football or basketball arenas (or really any professional sports area, since I just don't participate/watch, although when I was at LSU I did attend many home games), but I haven't gone to any horse shows of the "park" or "performance horse" variety (Saddlebreds, Morgans, Tennessee Walkers) since ~ 1987; I witnessed an animal being badly whipped not for dangerous behavior (deliberate kicking, biting, bucking), but just to get it "hyped up" before entering the show ring. [Incidentally, it took first place.] Inexcusable.
thing always look at me strangely when I tell them
that my family used to own a Tennessee Walker. I
always have to explain that we did not show Shannon,
nor did we do any of the unusual and uncomfortable
things to her that are often done to Walkers to
"enhance" their unusual gait.
This kind of thing gets me angry every time I read
about it. Why do we think we can torture and maim
animals for "fun and profit?"
It's a damn shame is what it is.
Reggie Bautista
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