Dead Horse

[Mottie]

And snails.

I knew someone who used to breed racing snails. He once removed the shell from one of them to make it lighter and therefore, faster. Unfortunately it just made it more sluggish.......

 

[Bodd]

I don't understand your response.

What has the animal making money have to do with whether it is treated with respect?

It's not the horse I'm questioning it's the fat git sitting on him.

 

[Bodd]

All animals should be treated with dignity and respect and be allowed to fulfill and carry out their basic instincts. I doubt the horses within the racing industry that are not performing and making money have much of a life, and I think that is wrong.

But those that are showing potential probably do have a quality of life, being out on the gallops with all the other horses is probably just the thing if you are a horse. So I suspect the horse in the story was probably quite enjoying itself until the moment it collapsed. The fact that someone sat on it when it was dead means nothing, and for me does not indicate one way or the other that that person did not really care for horses. If its dead its dead.

I love my Spoodle.... I won't be sitting on her once she is dead. Nor my mother.

 

[Bodd]

I knew someone who used to breed racing snails. He once removed the shell from one of them to make it lighter and therefore, faster. Unfortunately it just made it sluggish.......

Was he from Liverpool.

 

[Bodd]

I had a very talented sexy female snail I used to enter in shows.
She met Danny Dyer once. He picked her up and whispered in her ear.

I got a bit jealous and went upto him and said what did you say to Jane.

" I was just have a word in her shell like" he said

 

[Mottie]

Yep, the old ones are the worse!

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Oh, don't start Bobby off.

I've already started...........so I'll finish.
There is a horse race. There is a dog race. There are even pig races and snail races.
Although they are kind of social constructs, they do exist in reality.

Quite!
It's one of the reason why they walk round in circles before the race, the horses are easier to control like that.
If they're standing still, they'll be almost trotting on the spot, raring to go.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

How so?

The word 'race' has many connotations.
Some people are easily confused by that, and intentionally conflate the one with the other.

I'm happy to discuss it if you wish.




What was that noise? It sounded like the forum creaking under its own weight.
Unless it was a collective groan.

 

[IT Minion]

What I want tok now is when this thread eventually falls over and gets put out of its misery by the mods, who's going to be the one sitting on its corpse?

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

What I want tok now is when this thread eventually falls over and gets put out of its misery by the mods, who's going to be the one sitting on its corpse?

I don't want tok now, thank you.

 

[Munroast]

I love my Spoodle.... I won't be sitting on her once she is dead. Nor my mother.

But it wouldn't make any difference to them if you did - it is how you treat them when they are alive that is of all importance.

 

[ellal]

It's like I mentioned previously, some will simply think 'it's a dead horse, bred to race, what's the big deal?'

Bred to race indeed...

Thus it wouldn't have existed but for humans deciding to make the horse do it for their own human 'fun'...

Personally I think horse racing (especially over fences) is a cruel 'sport'.

And some winkers even use horses and other animals to kill wildlife for 'fun'...

I'd place such people in a real life 'planet of the apes' scenario and see how they like it!

 

[Bodd]

But it wouldn't make any difference to them if you did - it is how you treat them when they are alive that is of all importance.

She wouldn't know if I chopped her up for cat food... but thats not cricket either...

 

[teaboyjim]

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[just pumps]

Oh, don't start Bobby off.

Or Himmy