Comments on: Incentives for Cruelty: Abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses

By: Down With Ignorance

Down With Ignorance — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:27:00 +0000

I’m no fan of the padding up of the front feet (saw one up close and it just looked dumpy and clumsy to me) but it is like a woman wearing heels. if they ‘fit’ right they don’t hurt. It’s not the pads people should be complaining about, it’s the soreing, the pads don’t sore em, it’s just extra weight to get them to puck up their feet, saddlebred people do it too, but not to near the same extent and they don’t sore their horses. and those roller ball chains, seriously? they don’t hurt the horse either, those aren’t even heavy, I picked up a pair before and they’re lighter then your house keys (or my house keys anyways) those just work with the horses natural instinct. See horses instinctively pick up their feet higher if there’s something around their feet (I think it may also have something to do from the horses being used to having to pick up their feet when the farrier comes and picks them up to work on them). I’m no expert about show TWH’s, but I do know some of the saddlebred world and they use the chains, stretchers (consists of two ‘bands’, for lack of better term, that fastens loosely around the ankle that are connected with surgical tubing which is kind of like resistance training at a gym), and thin pads (thickest I’ve seen was about 1/4 of an inch)

By: Manda

Manda — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:30:00 +0000

This abuse is not comparable to slaughter! Unless slaughter involves this sort of cruelty! These horses suffer abuse year in year out if they survive it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Bq7Aopr04&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZTIbwaibOE

By: eeka

eeka — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:30:00 +0000

Click through to his/her blog; I don’t think it’s trolling as much as having trouble with on-topic language. It doesn’t seem malicious though.

By: eeka

eeka — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:27:00 +0000

How about, we just ban the use of animals for entertainment? Absolutely no reason for any of it.

By: Bl

Bl — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Man was created to care for animals, not abuse them. Keeping an animal in a state of pain is wrong. If you want to help, support your local humane society.

By: abbeysbooks

abbeysbooks — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:14:00 +0000

I have been thinking about this post off and on all day. It brought up memories glued to it. So I wrote on it, linked it to you, and took it in a slightly different direction. Here it is:
http://focusfree.blogspot.com/2012/05/incentives-for-cruelty-abuse-of.html?zx=3c75c50ebb03bd11 Thank you for this post, but I really don’t know why I want to thank you for making me hurt.

By: Liza Shankar

Liza Shankar — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:04:00 +0000

Never mind my comment. I just read your other posts and realized that you appear to be obviously trolling.

By: Liza Shankar

Liza Shankar — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Apparently, utilizing the English language anywhere near correctly is a disappearing art as well.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:39:00 +0000

I find your comment incredibly problematic: not having to fuck unsatisfying slaughterhouse operators is a pretty privileged position.

By: abbeysbooks

abbeysbooks — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Sorry you didn’t get the irony. Irony seems to be another disappearing art. Nobody gets it anymore.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:26:00 +0000

I guess this is the part that caught my eye:

Women who know how these men fuck, by looking at them move, talk, express themselves, prefer their toys.

Not sure what that has to do with animal cruelty, but sorry about your disappointments fucking… slaughterhouse operators (?)

By: YourName

YourName — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:25:00 +0000

I wish I was a vegan, however I don’t think killing animals for food and torturing them for fun are the same. I know that many animals are slaughtered brutally for food, it’s awful and it should stop, but this is not the same as stopping eating animals at all either.
I felt sad because of the things I read here, however it’s good to know what is going on.

By: abbeysbooks

abbeysbooks — Wed, 30 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000

Actually you just read what a disgusted woman wrote about the people who do this, the people who sustain it, the industry that promotes it. The entire power/knowledge/capital grid so elucidated by Michel Foucault. It is a system of Discourse about show horses. Just as Moneyball was a system of Discourse on which players to recruit.

Discourses often kill. Often people are involved and killed.

People know what they do. They frequently even know why they do what they do. But what they don’t know is what they do does. – Michel Foucault

By: abbeysbooks

abbeysbooks — Wed, 30 May 2012 07:02:00 +0000

You read what you read. You probably didn’t like what I said.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:58:00 +0000

What did I just read?