On behalf of my herd, including the goddess mare Salina and my first beloved horse Bo-Jinx, who are with me in spirit, and now joined by the amazing Keil Bay, I’m offering the link to a post I wrote in 2010.
It’s getting a lot of hits this week in the archives and everything I wrote then I still believe to be true today.
There are so many ways this expands to current affairs too. We must do better in all our relationships with our animal family, our communities, our regard for one another as human beings, and our mother Earth.
I read your post again and of course I agree with everything said. I had planned on starting to get Rosie ready to take me as a rider again. But with the weather hovering in the 90's for the future I put it on hold until we can both enjoy our experience. I'm sure she doesn't feel like "exercising" in this weather and neither do I. We may not be in the South but our temps and humidity get uncomfortable too. I will never go to another horse show and watch the abuse that goes on there for the sake of a 50 cent ribbon and an over inflated ego. This was a great post then and it's a great post now. You would hope at least some riders will read it and think of their horses and not themselves for a change.
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