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| luvdids wrote: | | 5150 wrote: |
I love your passion for animal rights but I can't agree with you on horse racing.
For the few that are injured and the many the no doubt end up pet foods, there are a whole lot more that lead a good life and end up as pets or farm animals and create a whole industry of employment. |
Agree totally with 5150. Yes, it's terribly sad when a racehorse has to be euthanised. But, until that point, they're probably the most pampered and well kept animals on the planet. We've owned a couple racehorses and they are treated like kings. Ronrat's also right, as soon as a jockey feels the horse isn't running 'right', they stop. I've seen one dismount during a race & pull the horse up.
The other blessing is that there's the ability to euthanise them straight away. A friend of mine has a few horses (not racehorses) and she saw someone else's horse slowly bleeding to death - had run into a barbed wire fence during the night and was lying there in agony. How many horses do you think die slow agonising deaths like this - having no one around to give immediate assistance? |
For one thing horses should not be in paddocks with barb wire fences, and if they have star posts they should be capped.
I've also been around pacers, ex had a top stud farm, the 100,000 stud stallion lived like a king, but far too many end up at the knackery, starved and scared. Also, read up on just what all that special diet does to a horses gut.
I'm sure done right, ie don't run them into the ground, don't expect too much of them, and don't over breed in the hope of a superstar, there would be a place for it. I know my pony loved to race, he went mental whenever he saw flags, or even those posts on the side of the road, he wanted to bend around them! But mans greed means cutting corners, and leaving the animals welfare at the gate.
For every horse treated like a king, how many are run into the ground and then discarded like last weeks fish?
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stui magpie 
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All I know on this is my maternal Grandfather was a stockman until he retired in his 70's and had been a rodeo rider in his youth. When he got on a horse he was part of it. He loved them and they loved him, I saw him voice control a few like a dog. If he saw anyone mistreat an animal he'd be the first in line to take corrective action - probably with a stock whip.
He loved the horse racing.
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Over the last year or so I've doing some meditation and... well not "meditation" more "mindfullness".
How to moderate my well stop my heart (and/or my Taurian temper) from ruling ruling my head.
Sudden what seem like brilliant ideas are often a sign that they are not and I'd better sit down and think about the ramifications that "idea" really are...etc
I REALLY needed some self control todae and the lessons I've learnt seemed to have stuck a cord.
In a tight and tense situation I was as cool as a cucumber and it paid off in spades.
I'm not a violent man but I will never back down from bullies that threaten me and mine with something as mindless as violence. |
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| 3.14159 wrote: | Over the last year or so I've doing some meditation and... well not "meditation" more "mindfullness".
How to moderate my well stop my heart (and/or my Taurian temper) from ruling ruling my head.
Sudden what seem like brilliant ideas are often a sign that they are not and I'd better sit down and think about the ramifications that "idea" really are...etc
I REALLY needed some self control todae and the lessons I've learnt seemed to have stuck a cord.
In a tight and tense situation I was as cool as a cucumber and it paid off in spades.
I'm not a violent man but I will never back down from bullies that threaten me and mine with something as mindless as violence. |
Hey honey, well done you, it's never easy to look inside yourself, and see a problem, let alone do something constructive to fix it. Whatever the situation was, I hope it's all fixed. And don't forget, even the coward of the county fought back in the end! Cheers mate,
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stui magpie
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Learning self control is not an easy thing, especially when you have a temper.
Took me a fair while (not saying I'm all the way there) and my son is learning the hard way, struggling but working at it. Doing better than me at the same age.
Goodonya 3. Having the guts and discipline to look inside yourself and critique your own behaviour is one of the hardest things to do. Good stuff.
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Thanks guy's!
I can't believe this woman is still tossing her garbage at me!
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Skids 
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New managers who come in and think they know everything about everything.
I had a bit of a disagreement with this one, i probably stepped outa l8ne and went above his head on a certain matter (which turned out being shown to be the right thing to do after some water samples came back out of spec).
Now the weasel won't even look me in the eye and avoids me? How do these type of people get into these positions?
I've forgotten more about plumbing than this joker will ever know!
Very uncomfortable situation at work at present that just shouldn't be 😠
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| Skids wrote: | New managers who come in and think they know everything about everything.
I had a bit of a disagreement with this one, i probably stepped outa l8ne and went above his head on a certain matter (which turned out being shown to be the right thing to do after some water samples came back out of spec).
Now the weasel won't even look me in the eye and avoids me? How do these type of people get into these positions?
I've forgotten more about plumbing than this joker will ever know!
Very uncomfortable situation at work at present that just shouldn't be 😠 |
That's no good
Don't guys just sort this out over a beer?
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Skids
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Yeah, blokes with balls do TP.
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At a concert night, and the guy in the next seat was a good inch and a half into my space. And he insisted on spreading his knees over my side too, I pushed back! He even had his shoulder over mine for a while, til I gave him a look! Seriously, why are people so bloody rude?
I drove to Mitchum today, then to IKEA in Richmond, in the ranger, so I could see into cars. 1 stupid woman in a convertible in and out traffic on the Westgate, a guy also in a convertible looking at a phone or reading something, and I was behind him all the way down Victoria and hoddle street, moron. Then 2 lanes go into one, everyone is doing the zipper, but some woman in a BMW didn't want to let me in, she now knows a ranger has some juice! Gave her the finger just to be sure she knew I meant it! And then I let 2 more cars in to piss her off! Street round the corner has chicanes, and there is always cars parked in the way. You'd reckon the one who has to move to over take the parked car would wait, no this woman obviously had more urgent business than me, gees she must have been mm from my mirror! Man really watch people drive, it's no wonder crashes happen so much. Everyone is in a fricken hurry! For what? Just crazy
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Upgrade to Win 10... It's free.
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| Skids wrote: | | Yeah, blokes with balls do TP. |
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