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RE: FW: [RidersoftheDustyTombs] FW: WATER, WATER, WATER, WATER (was: RM.... and Metabolic pulls at Tevis)
Lif,
you are a woman after my own heart. I think Kate would like this idea
too....except for the fact that dead horse skeletons are a dime a dozen here.
With much of the desert under the Antiquities Department authority and the
penalties for amateur excavation very dire, people usually just leave dead
horses in the desert for the wild dogs, crows, foxes and kites to take care
of. During a rough period around the pyramids at Giza, like during an
influenza outbreak, or during the Gulf War when there was no tourism and the
stables were being used almost exclusively by Kuwaiti "refugees", there are dead
horses all over the place. A few of the stables refused to deal with the Gulf
folk after a while when they lost too many horses, but it's a pretty brutal
business....as horse owning always has been in times and places where they are
an integral part of a not always steady economy...Remember Black
Beauty??
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo,
Egypt
gabbani@starnet.com.eg
At 04:57 PM 7/26/00 +0300, Kate
wrote via Maryanne in response to Kat's email:
Kat:
>The way to keep metabolic crashes from
happening at rides is to
>have fewer vet checks, fewer vets, less
rider amenities, less crew acces,
>and a tough trail. Then more
riders will realize that the metabolic
>condition of their horses is
their own responsibility and ride accordingly.
Kate:
You mean on the NEXT tough trail, littered with
the bones of dead
horses from the previous one? Sure, maybe then things
will start to
sink in for those who haven't lost their mounts or
otherwise been
traumatized enough to abandon the sport. It's far too
early to apply
Darwinist/Machiavellian approaches.
Ah, but
this brings up a great idea. How about obtaining the bones of a horse or
three, piling them strategically along the trail in realistic poses and just
telling people these were horses that were overridden? Lif
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