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At 08:59 AM 9/4/2004, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> seeing those horses that weren't really suitable for the sport to begin 
> with, who were made to do something they were never intended to do and who 
> paid the ultimate price for doing so,

and then Heidi wrote:

> I think that is a lot of what Lif was talking about, too, with regard to 
> the difference between rescuing a horse because you like him and want him 
> to be your pet, vs rescuing a horse and asking him to do a specific and 
> very strenuous job.

You hit that one on the nail, that is *exactly* what I have been talking 
about.  There is lots of information out there in the world to know what 
the requirements are for any work an animal could be put to.  Asking an 
animal - any species - to do a strenuous job it is not physically or 
mentally suited for, and which results in the animal's suffering injury, 
pain and even death, is plainly and simply animal abuse to me.

There, I've said it and I don't care if I get flamed.


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