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Basically, as long as there are people on this planet who believe that 
there are human beings and "animals" living here, this sort of thing 
will happen. To be facetious, everyone knows that we aren't animals and 
that our needs (whatever they might be) come first and anyway, the 
other creatures are just dumb animals and they don't matter anyway.

Since my experience is that as long as a majority of people, whether 
they own animals or not, have this attitude, horses (and dogs, cats, 
camels, donkeys, dancing bears.....) will continue to get the short end 
of the stick.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.alsorat.com

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and 
you miss all you are traveling for"  Louis L'Amour


On Sunday, Sep 5, 2004, at 20:48 Africa/Cairo, Chris Paus wrote:

> I think a lot of it also goes back to the big breeding
> boom in the 1970s and 80s.
>
> My mare Brokenmoon Latifa was a casualty of such
> breeding. She came from a farm in Michigan. The owner
> went bankrupt and fled his creditors by fleeing the
> country! He locked up his horses in the barn and left
> them to die before he got on a plane!
>
> My mare was a yearling at the time. She and her dam
> somehow escaped and their presence alerted the
> neighbors that something was wrong. The horses who
> survived were sold at auction.
>
> So there was just one herd of Arabian broodmares who
> were never broke to ride, they were just producers.
> I'm sure this story was repeated hundreds of times
> across the country and still is being repeated.
>
> Brokenmoon Latifa (Tee) found her way somehow Tennesee
> where she had several foals, including Shakeela Lee,
> her daughter that I have. These two mares were starved
> again and we rescued them. They went almost a year
> with no hay! They had 40 acres, but it was mostly
> woods. They were surviving on tree bark.
>
> Their personalities were pretty well set by the time I
> got them, and it would be difficult now to change
> their jobs and switch them from brood mares to riding
> horses. They've come a  long long way, but probably
> will never completely trust humans after what they've
> endured.
>
> I know several people who have picked up well bred
> horses who were in a similar plight as my mares. It
> happens.
>
> chris


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