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Actually, the cause of PMS in humans, and "marishness" in horses is quite 
similar -- it has to do with nutritional defitiencies that make it difficult 
for the person/horse to produce the correct amount of the correct hormones 
(these are manufactured, internally) at the righ time.

As an equine nutritionist, I have eliminated "marishness" in many horses, 
through changes in diet.

Healthy mares handle their heat cycle without distress or difficulty; only 
mares with health problems have difficulties that affect their disposition.




> From: Mary Krauss <lazykfarm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   re: mares and girls
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:26:30 -0800
>
> I'll bet you men out there are loving this conversation--maybe you all 
> ought to go throw seed on the pasture for a moment....
>
> Heidi, I know that female horses and female humans differ biologically; I 
> am focusing on the similarities in behavior and mood, not on the 
> underlying, completely dissimilar processes causing the discomfort.  We 
> still don't know why some women get PMS, and we still don't know why some 
> mares get "mare-ish".  Not knowing the cause doesn't mean that reality is 
> nonexistent.....  It may turn out we DO share something with equine 
> females--but that doesn't matter particularly to my original point which 
> wandered into a different pasture long ago....
>
> I also don't have a problem with anthropomorphizing as long as it doesn't 
> lead to misunderstandings such as, "that horse did that to piss me off...." 
>  Anthropomorphizing is an excellent way to relate to another species--the 
> only way really.  Just ask Temple Grandon (sp?).
>
> Ciao!
> Mary K. -- gotta' go take some Advil.....  :-)
>
>
> On Sunday, March 5, 2006, at 05:52 PM, heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > > I've a great deal of respect for your opinion because you know lots about 
> > > lots, but I gotta' seriously disagree in this case.  I've had both 
> > > stallions and mares--and--perhaps I'm biased being a female and all--but 
> > > the boys seem much less bothered by their hormones than many of the 
> > > females....  My current mare is particularly bothered by her heat cycle, 
> > > and I'd be willing to write her off as "pathological" if it weren't for 
> > > the fact that many of my friends have mares just like her.
> >
> > I meant what I said.  Menstruation is the sloughing of the uterine
> > lining in between ovulations.  Mares have no physiological process even 
> > akin to it.  It is all too common to anthropomorphize and
> > pretend that horses do things the way we do and visa versa--but it
> > simply isn't the case.
> >
> > Heidi
>
>
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