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Horse Behavior and Training

Cost/benefit matrix for training animals

By:

vicci - UK (North Wales)

Date:

2016-Aug-17 at 06:09PM

Hiall
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http://illis.se/en/cost-benefit/
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This is a great article from a non-horse person so has more objectivity than can often be found. There is also another link in the article to an 'ethical dilemmas' site which I amo about to explore.
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See what you think

dionne4210 - Denmark. 2016-Aug-17 at 07:54PM

As you know I am against bits, spurs, whips etc and of course against rolkur as mentioned in this article, however, I am training a horse to ride - which is against a horses nature, so this is like having double morals, I want to ride for MY pleasure, and even though I take great care of Shilo whilst riding and training, he would choose NOT to have a rider on his back.
This SHOULD be an ethical dilemma for all horse owners, and we should be very clear in our heads that this is for our pleasure and not the horse.
In my own case I don't think that I am causing my horse any suffering by sitting on his back, I am not in any way over weight, have the very best of equipment which should protect the horse, I am doing all I can to give Shilo a nice time whilst training and riding , but still , should we be doing this to animals who are not naturally built for weight on the back ?.
This is a very interesting article which could be asked of many sports involving animals, the author of the article chose a good example with rolkur, which I find very distasteful, and would never ask Shilo to perform, however, as I wrote EVERYTHING we humans do with animals should be a dilemma for us humans and we should ask ourselves why we are doing what we are doing, because when you get down to the nitty gritty, its never for the animals sake.

Thanks for sharing the article Vikki.

Dionne