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Sarah,
Wow, are you sure your not my
double?I could not of said it
better.
A friend has a PMU barn here in ND. And
what you said is right on. The horses are treated well, better then most back
yard horses. He breeds good horses, ( top bloodlines QH) that sell
well for good prices. He is a horseman, who just happens to run a PMU
barn. In his barn all mares are let out once a day. The only problem is
not getting run over when they all run back to their stalls. They are happy,
healthy horses. I have too have seen many PMU barns and none were
the hell holes that they are made out to be. PMU is highly regulated, and if
they don't meet either the government or the drug company standards they
are shut down.
I believe if people took the time to look
into them honestly they would see the same. But most people believe the animal
rights groups. Like most animal rights propaganda it's false, and few take
the time to find out the truth.
Just like dairy farms, if the animals are
not well cared you lose money. And it is business after all.I know all
about dairys having spent the last 22 years , morning and night looking at the
business end of a Holstein! There are good and bad, most are
good.
Just like milking cows, running a PMU barn
is a 24/7/357 job and only someone who loves animals weather it's cows or horses
can or will do the job for long.
Thank You, Paddie for taking
the time to show people what PMU barns are really like.
Tami Keller ( ya gotta love em... 5
daughters, 2 son-in-laws, 2 granddaughters, 1 hubby, 4 horses, 3 dogs, 75 milk
cows, 15 baby calves, 20 heifers, 9 steers, 124 beef cow calf pairs,
10 bulls, 1 bird, 1 hamster, 1 house cat and 17 barn cats, whew , just did
head count Monday! :)
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