Post by Admin on May 24, 2016 10:53:02 GMT
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Rules:
-No bullying, harassment, or stalking. Violating this rule will result in first a warning and if repeated, a ban.
-No insulting of trainers. If you don't agree with a trainer, do not go to his or her thread and leave a nasty comment.
-Cruel training is not allowed. This involves flooding, alpha rolling, abuse (there's a difference between abuse and correction), gingering, soring, drugging (not talking about for medical reasons, I'm talking about drugging for shows just to earn a ribbon), tying a horse's nose to a post (some people keep a horse's head up like this for hours, so when they take it down, the horse carries the head low during shows), docking, stalling (with some exceptions being at night, stall rest, or when it's cold) or any other form of cruel training.
-Your horse must be kept in a pasture. Stalling at night is okay, stall rest when sick or healing, or when it's too cold for your horse to be outside. Horse stalls cause a horse to become depressed and develop stereotypies. If you don't believe me, look at science. It's also common sense. Horses are 1,000 pounds and can run 40 miles per hour. They need a lot of space. 1 hour of riding per day, or 3 hours of turn out is not enough. Horses are also social herd animals and get lonely locked up alone. Don't believe me? Spend your week in your bathroom all day, with an hour reserved to exercise. There is nothing nice about being kept in a stall. It's only nice if it's night and cold out, or if your horse is injured and needs to be on stall rest. Stop anthropomorphizing horses -- we may enjoy living under a roof, horses do not. And that has been proven. Common excuse: "not everyone can board in a pasture". You shouldn't have a horse in the first place if you can't have pasture board. It's better to not have a horse at all than to neglect it (and yes, stalling is neglect)
www.habitatforhorses.org/why-the-long-face-traditional-stables-make-horses-depressed/
www.meadowfamilyrescue.com/#!stereotypies/cf2a
Failure to follow the rules will result in first a warning, and if repeated, a ban.
Rules:
-No bullying, harassment, or stalking. Violating this rule will result in first a warning and if repeated, a ban.
-No insulting of trainers. If you don't agree with a trainer, do not go to his or her thread and leave a nasty comment.
-Cruel training is not allowed. This involves flooding, alpha rolling, abuse (there's a difference between abuse and correction), gingering, soring, drugging (not talking about for medical reasons, I'm talking about drugging for shows just to earn a ribbon), tying a horse's nose to a post (some people keep a horse's head up like this for hours, so when they take it down, the horse carries the head low during shows), docking, stalling (with some exceptions being at night, stall rest, or when it's cold) or any other form of cruel training.
-Your horse must be kept in a pasture. Stalling at night is okay, stall rest when sick or healing, or when it's too cold for your horse to be outside. Horse stalls cause a horse to become depressed and develop stereotypies. If you don't believe me, look at science. It's also common sense. Horses are 1,000 pounds and can run 40 miles per hour. They need a lot of space. 1 hour of riding per day, or 3 hours of turn out is not enough. Horses are also social herd animals and get lonely locked up alone. Don't believe me? Spend your week in your bathroom all day, with an hour reserved to exercise. There is nothing nice about being kept in a stall. It's only nice if it's night and cold out, or if your horse is injured and needs to be on stall rest. Stop anthropomorphizing horses -- we may enjoy living under a roof, horses do not. And that has been proven. Common excuse: "not everyone can board in a pasture". You shouldn't have a horse in the first place if you can't have pasture board. It's better to not have a horse at all than to neglect it (and yes, stalling is neglect)
www.habitatforhorses.org/why-the-long-face-traditional-stables-make-horses-depressed/
www.meadowfamilyrescue.com/#!stereotypies/cf2a
Failure to follow the rules will result in first a warning, and if repeated, a ban.