Want to help further equine welfare?

Let us not stand idly by this time and help bring change for our horses, with just a few minutes of your time. Ask the IOC to put pressure on the FEI, to take actual steps to end abuse of horses, the likes of which we have seen in the list below. Someone, who wants to remain anonymous, has graciously lend us the following letter, that can be send to the IOC, via the link right here:

‘Free for a loving home’All I see, scrolling on social media, are horses offered up as ‘paddock mates’, for ‘a good home’. People have used up everything they can from their horse, and when the horse can no longer give, the horse must go. Often, the owners not having fulfilled the horse’s basic needs as a species and having subjected the horse to forceful training and ‘use’, is the reason the horse is now kaput in the first place.The 6-year-old horse that had to make place for the new shiny ridable horse, and will be put to sleep in little over a week if no one can provide a ‘loving home’ for the horse, took the cake for me. It is only a matter of time, before the new shiny horses will meet the same faith.

A lot of what we do with horses on a daily basis might not always be in their best interest.In the past 6,000 years we relied on Horses for our survival.But in developed countries, we have not relied on horses purely for our survival for at least 60 years

Traumatized horses, healed by living species appropriate

Like many horse lovers, including myself decades ago, we bought the ‘happy athletes’ lie and looked up to the high-ranking professionals in the sport.

I have lost 5 horses over the course of 23 years, of which my first and childhood love Jimmy. Jimmy’s passing affected me so heavily I had to go into therapy. I was this always happy, outgoing funny person, always singing, always making fun, always laughing… Jimmy’s passing changed that forever. I became an entirely new person, I had to learn who I was and how to live all over again, without Jimmy. 

Going behind the vertical vs placing behind the vertical

IS EQUESTRIAN SPORTS ON THE VERGE OF BEING BANNED?

ABOUT THE EQUINE PAIN FACE SCALE

 ABOUT STALLIONS

I think it was 15 years ago when I read the book Paddock Paradise from Jaime Jackson and since then I always dreamed of having that for my horses. Alas, our little equestrian facility is rather small, and we had already spent a lot of money on traditional stables, arena etc. and that set up, to my mind would not function to make a track. Also, we had around 7 to 9 horses on the premises, of which 4 or 5 were horses in training. My own 5 horses could not even be together in a paddock as they would fight to the death.