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Dear Ginny.

LOL.  I'm surprised you don't put your qualifications a la equine on  
your pet-oriented website.  I find the black and white nature of your  
arguments damage any credibility you might have.   Your inference  
that anyone who isn't (currently) working with a professional to get  
advice on horse care is also ludicrous, discounting that ordinary-non- 
professionals might not have learned something in all their years of  
horse management, which might be equivalent to your own claims.  Just  
because someone hangs a shingle out, in a field where there is little  
or no certification, guarantees nothing.  The average horse trainer  
isn't a herd behaviorist.

My "herd" can be out together 24-7 without threat from my very  
amorous gelding.  He was gelded at 18 months, I took photos and was  
certain it was done entirely.  He talks to all women, they love him  
back, he can drop and get hard.  He's never tried to mount anyone, he  
does challenge the breeding stallion here.  My mare and filly he is  
very bound to, screams for them if they're gone.  I'm sorry, I know  
of entirely too many herds where what you say is NOT happening to  
believe your tale.

A story about a single mare being put into a geldings pasture, I  
think ANY new animal in that herd may have been harried--herd  
management is an art, not the science you're trying to impose on it.

Lynne

On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Ginny Holsman wrote:

> I've worked with 100's of horse owners, riders, handlers and  
> trainers who care enough about providing the proper care of horses  
> to obtain advice from a professional like myself, and in the 45  
> years I have been providing equine consultation to horse owners,  
> riders, handlers and trainers, all over the world, I've seen 100's  
> of horses suffering all sorts of neglect and abuse by those who  
> prefer to imagine having worked with a few horses provides them  
> with all the knowledge they need to handle any horse well.
>
> The most tragic of circumstances that sticks in my mind, though,  
> was client who knew enough to separate geldings and mares, but the  
> mare got out, and a person who knew nothing about horses, trying to  
> help, put the mare into the pasture with the geldings, instead of  
> the separate pasture for mares.  The mare was raped to death before  
> the owners got home.
>
> However, I have also seen many mares that have been tortured almost  
> to death by geldings, stiff in the rear, unable to walk well, from  
> too much sex they could not defend themselves against.

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