On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:24:33PM -0000, dawn_atherton wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Wanda Lauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I know I really appreciate school horses. However, I feel all school > horses need an advocate. Someone that will always be there to ensure > that their health and well-being aren't compromised. > > Wanda > > ----------------I can see what you are talking about Wanda (and > Karen). What we are talking about is a lesson horse who's health and > welfare are taken into consideration versus one who's simply used for > lessons and his health and welfare aren't a factor. Yes, big > difference...
i agree with both of you. at my lesson barn, the owner (who owned all the horses except stjarni and one other instructor) seriously considered herself all of their advocates. i personally took on advocacy for my favorite little paint mare in general (she could be a bit of a crank to folks), for any horse i was teaching with or who anyone seemed to have issues with while i was in the barn, and of course for stjarni. there are plenty of barns out there where noone seems to care about the schoolies. i went through about a dozen of them before landing where i did, and i was there for three years without having a single complaint about how the school horses were loved and cared for. it's not the most common condition in the world, but there really are loving, caring people doing their best to train riders in this world, and i feel that both i and my mentor are doing our best in that capacity. --vicka
