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Sign to end the practice of horse soring - Catherine - 03-19-2020
Soring is a practice of damaging a horse's legs and feet so that the horse will pick up its feet in an exaggerated gait. It is cruel and painful and needs to be stopped.
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/petition-stop-the-cruel-practice-of-horse-soring/
I can't imagine how this practice started or why it persists. It seems bizarre to even think of deliberately hurting a horse.
Why do they even want the horses to walk like that.
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - LPC - 03-19-2020
This seems to be an American practice, on the whole. I hadn't even heard of it before. It is cruel and unnecessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soring
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - Catherine - 03-20-2020
Now that I read more about it I am even more shocked that anyone would choose to do something like this to a horse.
The high stepping is interesting, but it is not worth hurting an animal to get it to do it. It is a bit of an unnatural gait for a horse.
Why can't people be satisfied with animals being what they are naturally.
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - LPC - 03-20-2020
I wonder why this practice seems to be almost exclusively in the USA?
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - Catherine - 03-21-2020
I have no idea why this is a local practice in the USA.
It is only done for certain breeds so that might be the answer. Only certain breeds are expected to walk with a high step. It looks like the practice started to make the horses walk a certain way.
It is totally cruel so I can't imagine who would have started such a thing.
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - Tobi - 03-22-2020
I signed the petition. This is horrible. I hadn't heard of it before. Let's hope we can all get it stopped.
RE: Sign to end the practice of horse soring - Catherine - 03-22-2020
I am constantly amazed by the cruel things people think up. This one has to be stopped.