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> Horses, and any pets, reduce stress for their owners.

> After having 4 rabbits, a horse and 3 dogs, I've learned that.

 

Jeez!

 

how stressed out were you to need all those furry beasties?

 

you could always have tried valium ;-)

 

John

 

 

i think that owning animals is a difficult issue as much as i love them.

i have noticed that wild horses dont take to human beings much so have to

guess that their coerce into being part of our world was not voluntary

and as such was based on abuse just as black people were with slavery.

 

it is we humans after all that are stolen away their land and natural

lives. just as it was the white races that accelerated slavery and are

stealing away the developing nations even now. the African-Caribbeans in

America may be " happy " now that the rich ones have Mercedes and the poor

ones beer and TV but does it make the past right?

 

it opens up interesting ethical debates about whether it is fair or

correct to enforce external change or evolution onto other beings against

their nature or will. and should one step back or even boycott it where

it happens? raises questions of the responsibility of a " superiority "

that is all too often judged by the power to do harm to other's.

 

however, it does seem that you are leading your horse back into the wild

again bareback and with a soft rope which is good and i hope that he

appreciates fully appreciates that.

 

in a away it is a funny full circle of justice in the way humans beings

become slaves or servants to their animals.

 

if someone has not got animals i thinkt hat they should seriously

question doing so. there is a kind of received opinion that, " i am a

veggie therefore i must have a cat or dog or a string " mentality that i

doubt. being a city dweller underlines this.

 

one questions, should animals have to work for humans?