What are your thoughts on hunting?

[Stevil]

Oh no, animals should never be used for human entertainment! Or food. or research. or anything. Ever.
(FYI I am not a PETA fan)

I am against horse racing. Jumping on top of an animal yanking on a metal bit forced into its mouth and kicking it and whipping it so that people can gamble is abhorrent.

[Tank]

Oh no, animals should never be used for human entertainment! Or food. or research. or anything. Ever.
(FYI I am not a PETA fan)

I am against horse racing. Jumping on top of an animal yanking on a metal bit forced into its mouth and kicking it and whipping it so that people can gamble is abhorrent.

I have no idea where that strawman of horse racing came from. If a jocky abused a multi-million pound horse he'd find himself out of the stable in a flash. I would ban the whip though as it is completly unnecessary. If all jockys have one it cancels out, so is unnecessary.

I don't like jumping horse racing as the risks to horse and rider are unneccessary. Competition on the flat is perfectly acceptable.

[Stevil]

I have no idea where that strawman of horse racing came from. If a jocky abused a multi-million pound horse he'd find himself out of the stable in a flash.

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

[OldGit]

IMO the Mongolian practice of inserting rockets in the horse's rear end is not inhumane, provided that:

  1.  The rocket has adequate thermal insulation
  2.  It is not one of those which shoot out stars at the end.

[Tank]

I have no idea where that strawman of horse racing came from. If a jocky abused a multi-million pound horse he'd find himself out of the stable in a flash.

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

That would be interesting. But what would they chase? A bale of hay? 

[Sandra Craft]

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

That would be interesting. But what would they chase? A bale of hay? 

They chase a mechanical rabbit.  Frankly, dog racing seems very hard on the greyhounds -- there's a local rescue group devoted entirely to racing dogs and I don't know if it's a co-incidence, but a lot of those dogs are missing a leg.

[Tank]

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

That would be interesting. But what would they chase? A bale of hay? 

They chase a mechanical rabbit.  Frankly, dog racing seems very hard on the greyhounds -- there's a local rescue group devoted entirely to racing dogs and I don't know if it's a co-incidence, but a lot of those dogs are missing a leg.

LOL I know the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit. I was thinking what would the horses chase if they didn't have a jokey 

[xSilverPhinx]

I have no idea where that strawman of horse racing came from. If a jocky abused a multi-million pound horse he'd find himself out of the stable in a flash.

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

Dog racing is worse, most retired greyhounds are put to sleep when they're past their prime.

I think Tank is right, champion horses are treated very well - if they weren't, they can't race. Don't really know what happens to the average racers after their careers are over though. 

[xSilverPhinx]

I have no idea where that strawman of horse racing came from. If a jocky abused a multi-million pound horse he'd find himself out of the stable in a flash.

Depends on your definition of abuse. I would consider horse racing unnecessary and abusive, purely for people's entertainment, unless of course it was more like dog racing, with no rider and the horse choosing to chase after something.

That would be interesting. But what would they chase? A bale of hay? 

Better to get them running from something. LOL

[xSilverPhinx]

But seriously now, even horse racing pales in comaprision to bloody sports such as bull baiting. I think it wasn even recently banned in Spain?

Talk about vestiges of a gladitorial past.

[Sandra Craft]

LOL I know the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit. I was thinking what would the horses chase if they didn't have a jokey 

Oh, the horses.  I think you'd be out of luck with them chasing anything jockey-less, unless it was a bunch of stallions chasing a mare.

[Buddy]

LOL I know the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit. I was thinking what would the horses chase if they didn't have a jokey 

Oh, the horses.  I think you'd be out of luck with them chasing anything jockey-less, unless it was a bunch of stallions chasing a mare.

Even geldings do that sometimes. Mostly mine when we're showing 


I personally would love to get my hunting license, but I have nobody to go with.

[Asmodean]

Don't really know what happens to the average racers after their careers are over though. 

Retirement and a life of munching on hay and hanging around allergy-inducing stables, if they lucky 

[DeterminedJuliet]

Oh no, animals should never be used for human entertainment! Or food. or research. or anything. Ever.
(FYI I am not a PETA fan)

I am against horse racing. Jumping on top of an animal yanking on a metal bit forced into its mouth and kicking it and whipping it so that people can gamble is abhorrent.

I actually support many of the same causes that PETA does - I just don't like that they are an organization that makes over $30 million a year and uses practically NOTHING of this to actually improve the lives of animals in any real way. They are a marketing/money making machine. I have a million times more respect for the SPCA and humane shelters - I've seen first hand the good that they do with very minimal budgets.

[xSilverPhinx]

Penn and Teller did an Bullsh1t episode on PETA. Don't know how much of it is true, though.