Re: RC: Re: ridecamp-d Digest V99 #117

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Michelle
I've made some enemies with my big mouth too but at least we can sleep
at night, eh? I'd like to believe there is such a thing as karma and
someday those halter trainers will be standing in a bucket of water when
Mr. Ed applies a cattle prod to a part of their anatomy that .... well
let us simply say that they might not have children in the future. BTW I
have never seen women halter trainers beat their horses although I have
seen some women who are pretty rough trainers in the saddle. Hopefully
they will get their just desserts, too.
Happy New Year
Bette

MBlanchrd@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 12/26/1999 3:22:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:
> 
> << Oops, didn't mean to get on such a soapbox, just very vivid unpleasant
>  memories of halter classes, welt marks on babies and one awful night of
>  myself and my young children discovering a trainer late at night beating
>  his halter horse, getting him "ready" for a class the next day. I know
>  there are abuses in any discipline, endurance included, but I've never
>  found such terrible abuses as in halter and that is where most of the
>  Egyptians go. Hooray for Mark!
>  Bette
> 
>  GoldenCMK@aol.com wrote: >>
> 
> Huh. Obviously you've never been to a Tennessee Walker show. After having my
> mouthy, opinionated and extremely loud mouth "escorted" off a show grounds
> I've never been back to any sort of halter or breed show. Hey, all I was
> doing was protesting the fact that the man was beating his horse for....oh my
> god........taking a dump and then stepping into the manure. I guess I was way
> out of line. I should think I should be rewarded, because my nearest and
> dearest will tell you that when I get hot about something, I swear. This time
> I didn't swear, not a cuss word in the bunch. Not a one, and the man took
> great exception to the fact that I  expressed my conflicting opinion on how
> he was "TRAINING" his horse. I was invited to leave and when I said I wasn't
> going to go, a couple of goons came and said that I could go on my own two
> feet or I could be arrested. OK. I left on my own two feet, though if I had
> seen a cop, I would have reported the man for animal abuse.
> 
> I've lost a lot of business because of that, but.........it was worth
> it........
> Michelle Blanchard
> MBlanchrd@aol.com
> Oly, WA
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