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What does zooville think about horseback riding?

Stutensindwunderbar

Stutensindwunderbar

Citizen of Zooville
I am genuinely curious about this. Because I live in Texas, pretty much everyone loves three things: Guns, beer, and horses. So when I ask folks if they think it's abuse to ride, they always say no. But I want to know what my fellow zoos think about it.
P.s. sorry I don't know how to make a poll and don't know where else to ask
 
As far as my horse is concerned, I'm his personal gate opener and road pass. He doesn't mind logging me around at all because it means he gets to go somewhere outside the fence.
 
I ride 5 times each week... So I guess you could say I'm okay with it.

That whole idea that riding is abuse is absolutely absurd. Sure, there are cases where it's abusive, but for the overwhelmingly massive majority, horses are just being used for what they were bred for, for thousands of years.

Anyone that wants to make horseback riding illegal is out of their fucking mind, and probably has never seen a horse in real life, let alone touched one.
(Yes, they exist, our country's "green" political party basically wants all animals to roam free... The idiots.)
 
I agree with y'all. I've been riding for years and know folks that have been riding their whole life. I had heard from a few people that think it's abusive. And was curious to see what others think
 
I'm also a horseback rider and it's the furthest thing from 'abuse'. That's absurd. The people who say things like that clearly aren't 'horse people', so I don't care about their opinion anyway. :husky_nervous:
 
Grew up riding (actually, I was riding before I was born - mom took out a group of tourists the afternoon of the day before I was born) and made my living for years on horseback. Always enjoyed it, and often thought the horses (some of them, at least) enjoyed it as well.

These days, though, a horse-related injury to my knee has, as was predicted nearly 30 years ago, progressed/degenerated to the point where more than half an hour or so of having my foot in a stirrup starts out "not comfy", steadily progresses to outright painful, and if I try to push beyond a certain point, I spend the next couple of days hobbling around like some kind of cripple. So yeah, in a manner of speaking, riding is indeed "abusive" - but to ME, not the horse!

Anybody making any sort of blanket claim that horseback riding is "abusive" has never seen it done in anything like a correct manner.
 
FireShire said:
Been riding most of my life. Horses enjoy being ridden as long as your tack fits right. Don't get me started on horse racing. Two year olds should not be on a race track. Their joints are not fully developed. To me, that's abuse.
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"Industrial grade" (as in Kentucky Derby, etc) racing is a whole different brand of idiocy - one that you and I apparently agree on, and I, for one, will have exactly NOTHING to do with.
 
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