Credit Where Credit is Due!

Debby

Debby

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I will always give credit where credit is due! After decades of effort, the USDA has finally taken charge and has banned the hideous practise of 'soring' on Tennessee Walkers! At one point, the TWH industry was given the approval to self-police, but that turned out to be totally ineffective (monsters don't police themselves) and the government has passed a law to make the practise illegal.

'....As requested in a rulemaking petition submitted by HSUS attorneys with the assistance of the law firm Latham & Watkins, the USDA rule, which was years in the making, bans the use of stacks and chains on Tennessee walking horses and racking horses (the breeds that have been chronic victims of soring). These medieval-looking devices accentuate the pain when chemicals are burned into the horses’ legs and their feet are injured with cutting and concealed hard objects. Injuring their feet and then forcing them to walk on four-inch stacks with chains banging against their sores creates the exaggerated gait prized by judges at some of the top horse shows. The rule also eliminates the failed industry self-policing program, and puts the USDA squarely in charge of enforcing the rules to eliminate these abuses....'

Thank you to all the lawmakers who finally saw through the malarkey of the proponents on that most ugly of 'gates' and took charge.

http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2017/01/usda-bans-soring-walking-horses.html
 

I saw an HSUS undercover video in a TWH training barn a couple years ago, and it showed horses lying in their stalls moaning and refusing to get up because of the pain in their legs. Can you imagine what kind of people those owners are who would voluntarily take their animals to be treated like that?

And to be quite frank, I think those horses who do that Big Lick gate have the ugliest movement I have ever seen in any animal! It looks unbalanced, bizarre, painful.....ugly, ugly, ugly.
It must be for them, like trying to dance in high heels after doing a twenty mile hike wearing brand new boots and no socks and with blisters on your blisters! I'm so happy your government finally did something about this. And with horses being such a big animal, it will be easier to eliminate this cruelty than say dog fighting is. That can be hidden away in sheds and warehouses.
 

Hi Ruthanne,

Lots of people haven't heard of it which is not that surprising. Not something that you broadcast to outsiders. "Yeah, I routinely make chemical burns on my horses legs so they can run funny to try and avoid the pain"

I've seen videos of the Big Lick horse shows and for the life of me, I cannot understand why anyone would think there was anything attractive or whatever about it! Seriously ugly movement. Here's a way to understand it, as graceful and balanced as a ballerina is, Big Lick horses move just the opposite.

Here's a great video that shows the comparison side by side:

 
When I knew what was happening to the Big Lick horses I couldn't watch. How could they do that? There are so many things I could say that to I guess.
 

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