Re: ridecamp-d Digest V99 #117

[MBlanchrd@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/26/1999 3:22:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:

<< Oops, didn't mean to get on such a soapbox, just very vivid unpleasant
 memories of halter classes, welt marks on babies and one awful night of
 myself and my young children discovering a trainer late at night beating
 his halter horse, getting him "ready" for a class the next day. I know
 there are abuses in any discipline, endurance included, but I've never
 found such terrible abuses as in halter and that is where most of the
 Egyptians go. Hooray for Mark!
 Bette
 
 GoldenCMK@aol.com wrote: >>

Huh. Obviously you've never been to a Tennessee Walker show. After having my 
mouthy, opinionated and extremely loud mouth "escorted" off a show grounds 
I've never been back to any sort of halter or breed show. Hey, all I was 
doing was protesting the fact that the man was beating his horse for....oh my 
god........taking a dump and then stepping into the manure. I guess I was way 
out of line. I should think I should be rewarded, because my nearest and 
dearest will tell you that when I get hot about something, I swear. This time 
I didn't swear, not a cuss word in the bunch. Not a one, and the man took 
great exception to the fact that I  expressed my conflicting opinion on how 
he was "TRAINING" his horse. I was invited to leave and when I said I wasn't 
going to go, a couple of goons came and said that I could go on my own two 
feet or I could be arrested. OK. I left on my own two feet, though if I had 
seen a cop, I would have reported the man for animal abuse.

I've lost a lot of business because of that, but.........it was worth 
it........
Michelle Blanchard
MBlanchrd@aol.com
Oly, WA




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