It will put them to sleep I bet.
gawd, PETA is working overtime...yep, that's the material that's the fertile ground for them to craft their bills on.
Precisely that material.
yeah, we got puppy mills, raisng, or rather churning out digs by the hundreds and thousands....keeping the breed stock in small cages in filth, pulling the pups from their mothers and siblings as young as 5 weeks....
we have dog fighting, horse tripping, the odd pervert who is into bestiality, we have people who just leave the animals to starve or abandon them to fend for themselves.
In geramny there is a law on the book, drafted to outlaw cropping of ears and docking of tails...the way it reads it prohibits the destruction of living tissue...sounds good, right?
but testicles fall under that as well...so if you actually applied the law, you would violate it by gelding your colts, and heaven knows, most colts make better geldings. It also would put branding on the bad side of the law. I am afraid that until smart phones can reliably pick up micro chips, there is no real alternative for a brand yet.
Nobody likes animal abuse.
But you never invite the wolves in to guard the sheep.
You have to do it the hard way. A person, one animal at a time.
Like the Gambia horse and donkey trust. They teach the owners of the animals how to treat the animals, how to give them basis health care.
They also teach the villagers trades that benefit the animals, like the black smiths learn how to make better bits that won't cut the tongues out of the donkey's mouth. It benefits the humans, too. They teach the children that the animal has to be fed before it can work.
but they don't go in, wag their fingers at the people, scald them and take their animals and livelyhoods.
PETA uses the instance you lined (last didn't work btw) to craft bills that mess everybody up.
Like I said. nobody wants the poor donkey kicked around on the market square. but when PETA and their ilk are done with the bill, you can't have a donkey anymore.
10-15 years ago there were people interested in legislating dog breeders. numbers of kennels, size of kennels, number of dogs, etc...fingers pointed at th disgusting puppy mills...
Too bad that most breeders don't even have a single kennel, their dogs live in their homes with them.
They have many dogs because they have multiple generations of their program.....the proposal would have effectively shut them down.
'Dog breeder' has by now become a bad name.
breeder of anything is now a stigma! PETA and HSUS are lobbying for horse breeders to be required to take back any and all they breed....(oh and them getting the 'foal tax' lol...yeah, animal welfare isn't their goal $$$ and lots of it is though) Impractical over the possible lifespan of a horse of 30 years....
As it is, many good breeders are calling it quits, age and economy doing them in. Not many come through the ranks, again, breeder is a bad word...
In a few years, should the economy allow for expensive hobbies again, we will find that there will be a lot less horses to go around, making the hobby prohibitively expensive. But that is just my prognosis. But when a lot less normal people own horses, it will be a lot easier to attack the ones that do have the money, use class envy to further the agenda....
(Am I sounding like billie yet? Seeing a Democrat behind every corner?)
