"He's three years old, and when we ended up with him he was very emaciated and his growth is stunted because of malnutrition, so we gave him some food and saddled him up! He rides great!!!!"
When your horse looks SCRAWNY like that, and is legitimately 3 years old, and was once "very emaciated", it needs to be put out to pasture for a good year or two and fed ALL it wants so it's body can recoup all the nutrition that it should have been getting... Not having a saddle slapped on it and a 150+ lbs idiot "horsemanship trainer" prance around on top of it's obviously underdeveloped structure.
I still want to see the day where you need some sort of license or permit to own horses, or any animal in general, so people would just stop mistreating them. "But they're not starving!" isn't a valid excuse *headdesk*
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The second two are rather appalling, though.
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When your horse looks SCRAWNY like that, and is legitimately 3 years old, and was once "very emaciated", it needs to be put out to pasture for a good year or two and fed ALL it wants so it's body can recoup all the nutrition that it should have been getting... Not having a saddle slapped on it and a 150+ lbs idiot "horsemanship trainer" prance around on top of it's obviously underdeveloped structure.
I still want to see the day where you need some sort of license or permit to own horses, or any animal in general, so people would just stop mistreating them. "But they're not starving!" isn't a valid excuse *headdesk*
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