Tennessee Walking Horse Torture Continues—Federal Officials Get Harassed as Well
I've blogged about Tennessee Walking Horse abuse many times and will continue to do so until all the "soring" and other forms of human-induced torture of gaited horses stops. Again, not all owners and trainers in the gaited horse world "sore" their animals (apply caustic chemicals to the skin so that the horses maintain exaggerated gaits to get away from the horrible pain inflicted on purpose). One gaited horse show organization contacted me to let me know they are working to wipe it out entirely. More on that in another blog post.
Meanwhile, this report from the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader shows only a tiny amount of the harassment and threats of physical violence federal officials trying to enforce anticruelty laws endure. I reported before I knew one such federal official, whose staffer was cornered in a bathroom and threatened with torture and worse, if he kept trying to stop the abuse. There's a related incident reported in the full story.
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about the abuse of tennesse walkers
I am writing a paper for my writing class about the abuse of tennessee walkers. Many people see this as glamorous entertainment. I know about soring but I was wanting to know about other abuses as well. Does keeping them in their stalls for long periods of time cause them to be more suseptable to colic? Where else can I find more information on this? I have to have more than one source.
Oh the time is near
Well, the weeks are counting down and the trainers are scratching their heads. Should I show or not show, should I wait and just show at the celebration? What should I do? If my customers find out that these high dollar horses cannot pass the USDA inspection, will the leave my barn? How will I make it? Fixin and ridin padded walking horses is all I know.
Well it is payback time, the USDA will not back down and are going to descend on the Celebration and as was said when "Free The Breeders" took control of what they thought was destroying the Padded Show horse, The Gates of Hell have been held at bay but the doors are open and will be spewing tickets this year at the celebration.
As I have said many times before, the owners and trainers of the SHow TN Walking Horse have created this mess and will all go down with the ship. Hope you have enjoyed the ride!
For those that read this, please be aware that the Show TN Walking Horse is only a fraction of the overall TN Walking Horse Industry. he fact that some very ignorant owners and trainers have taken the docile, beautiful, and graceful TN Walking Horse and have put a black mark on the rest of the Industry.
The truth
The truth is that Soring does occur. The celebration was practically shut down because of the humane society. However that does not mean that everyone does it. ALot of us like natural action, action that is the hard work of breeding the right lines and training the correct way. However if you pay close attention to her blog she says that exact thing in the first line, so dont yell at her if you cant comprehend the entire article. THATS what gives us a bad name.
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