Too Bad

[Jordyboy9]

Seems like I have ruffled some feathers with the racing fraternity on here,so yes I will winge on my own thread rather than intrude on theres,horses are beautiful animals and maybe they love to race but can’t believe it myself but to see them whipped and soaking in sweat to give excitement to upper class chinless wonders it not right to treat those beautiful animals like this

[pixie374]

Hardly, jordy! Nobody has condoned abuse in any way. Laws may need to be tightened, but all different kinds of animals can end up with abusive owners. That's a different subject.

[woofgang]

pixie the whole bloodstock industry system is abusive.

[pixie374]

The whole of it certainly isn't.

[woofgang]

I said that the system is.

[-Talbot-]

Let's hope in your next life you come back as a budgie, Woofgang.

[pixie374]

If I had ever seen any sign of cruelty, I never would have worked there. They need to be physically and mentally at their peak. Those horses were spoilt rotten!

[tamborine]

Stabled horses let loose gallop in a frenzy at space & freedom. Nowt to do with prey.

Ive not seen cruelty in racing stables. Mistreat a horse & it displays fear by not responding to aides.

[andres]

jordyboy9--- I hope you have as much compassion for those little lambs that have not yet had a life. You know the ones that are ripped away from their mothers and end up on the dinner table.

[bhg481]

They have a year's life that they wouldn't have at all if people didn't want them for the dinner table. On top of that they're hardly ripped away from their mothers - at 1 year they probably wouldn't even recognise their mother.

[ummmm]

Yes they do bhg, they cry when they are taken away.

[bhg481]

Just like puppies and kittens when they're taken away from their mothers at 6 weeks but that doesn't seem to deter pet lovers.

[andres]

Taken away between one month up to one year.^^

[andres]

But unless you live in China or Korea etc.you are not going to eat the pups and kittens.

[bhg481]

That's not relevant - you are complaining that it upsets them being taken from their mothers; they don't know where they're going.

[lankeela]

Sitting on my hands on the racing front but just have to weigh in (see what I did there?) on the puppies and kittens - after weaning the mothers are quite accepting of them leaving home and given the opportunity mother dogs will quickly jump out of the puppy pen to get away from the sharp needle teeth and scratchy claws. I am talking here about well bred and reared dogs - not puppy farmed ones where they are taken from their mothers often before being fully weaned but that is because people insist on still buying from pet shops or online without seeing the mums, so the demand is filled by the puppy farmers with no thought for the poor babies or their mums and definitely no thought for the families who end up with a very poorly adjusted and often sick or dying pets.

[hereIam]

^ Disgusting ! A waste of another beautiful creature because of selfish humans.