Clearing the air
1 year ago
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
It's Obvious,Oblivity is rampant..
and Blogger won't load my picture.
GEEEEEZ. oh, wait, never mind..
Stupid computers, they think they are soooo necessary.
hah.
I can still hold a pen. It hurts, but I can do it.
Why...
It's sooo OBvious. To Me, anyway. I gasperate, exasperated, exacerbating my own exiguous existence. Anyway.
Why..
Why do people get animals to ignore?
Just WHY??
Okay, I'll move on.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
AddendumBs.
OSPCA? Kudos on your handling bungling of the TorontoHumaneSociety Cruelty "case". What the hell is wrong with these organizations? I give up.
On the one hand, the OSPCA is all for the proper standards of care. On the other, the OSPCA cannot make you have any standards at all. The OSPCA are not politically affiliated, yet they are so proud of Bill C50.
But they don't think there's anything they can do about the current laws, which don't do much more than ensure that death is a semi-bad thing. It's really weird. Sure smells like government to me. There is nowhere else to turn, is there. Yeah, not a question.
There seems to be an inordinate amount of politically incorrectable things going on.
I had a wee temper tantrum up at the OSPCA Office last week, and I still couldn't get a straight answer about what they are doing to make the laws better.
If the neglect I've reported isn't the politically correct idea of neglect, what standards do the OSPCA/ORC care to uphold in the shelters/at the tracks?? My mind boggles.
Here's a thought, though. It might be nice if the Ontario Racing Commission was a teensy bit more stringent in their licensing requirements for grooms.
I received a breathless OSPCA mailing for extra donations, saying that they needed to learn more about infectious/fungal diseases. Jeepers, two words. Bleach, Work. Remember when I went up there in February? My contact seemed blasé about the problem they were having. There were foot-baths between the office/kennel areas, but they were used perfunctorily. I know how hard it is to keep animal areas clean. REALLY clean. The place didn't smell bad, which made me happy. Guess the OSPCA is still learning how to do it properly too. I have to pay for that?? Bleach has been around for a long time, as far as I know. Aseptic technique, now that goes WAY back.
What is the point of having animal welfare standards at all? The standards are all voluntary. So, you don't have to worry, if you run a puppy mill, or keep any animal in it's own shit 24/7/365, or transport an animal for days upon days without water or breaks. That's A-Okay. We have standards, we will distribute those standards in printed form, we just don't think you necessarily need to read them, if you don't want to.
Just don't beat the animal (where we can see you), or starve it to death. We might fine you some money!
I'm utterly flummoxed. It's an Ontario thing, I guess.
On the one hand, the OSPCA is all for the proper standards of care. On the other, the OSPCA cannot make you have any standards at all. The OSPCA are not politically affiliated, yet they are so proud of Bill C50.
But they don't think there's anything they can do about the current laws, which don't do much more than ensure that death is a semi-bad thing. It's really weird. Sure smells like government to me. There is nowhere else to turn, is there. Yeah, not a question.
There seems to be an inordinate amount of politically incorrectable things going on.
I had a wee temper tantrum up at the OSPCA Office last week, and I still couldn't get a straight answer about what they are doing to make the laws better.
If the neglect I've reported isn't the politically correct idea of neglect, what standards do the OSPCA/ORC care to uphold in the shelters/at the tracks?? My mind boggles.
Here's a thought, though. It might be nice if the Ontario Racing Commission was a teensy bit more stringent in their licensing requirements for grooms.
I received a breathless OSPCA mailing for extra donations, saying that they needed to learn more about infectious/fungal diseases. Jeepers, two words. Bleach, Work. Remember when I went up there in February? My contact seemed blasé about the problem they were having. There were foot-baths between the office/kennel areas, but they were used perfunctorily. I know how hard it is to keep animal areas clean. REALLY clean. The place didn't smell bad, which made me happy. Guess the OSPCA is still learning how to do it properly too. I have to pay for that?? Bleach has been around for a long time, as far as I know. Aseptic technique, now that goes WAY back.
What is the point of having animal welfare standards at all? The standards are all voluntary. So, you don't have to worry, if you run a puppy mill, or keep any animal in it's own shit 24/7/365, or transport an animal for days upon days without water or breaks. That's A-Okay. We have standards, we will distribute those standards in printed form, we just don't think you necessarily need to read them, if you don't want to.
Just don't beat the animal (where we can see you), or starve it to death. We might fine you some money!
I'm utterly flummoxed. It's an Ontario thing, I guess.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Ready, Set, HEAD..
CRAP, I hit publish again.. Jeeesh.
2010 has been my y2K, brain wise..
Okay, Ready, Set The Head. No, no, no. Full stop. It's backwards, this whole idea that the head position is where the horse being broke starts. Nope, it isn't.
I Know that's where you lead them from. You don't want to be pushing them around by their large, dangerous arses, do you? Hard to find a halter to fit those big butts. Imagine giving them a rectal twitch.. Yeah, the head is way easier for leading, less prone to flatulence, although goobers are always in the possibilities. Halter classes would certainly be more exciting, if we always pushed them around by their bums:)
However, did you ever notice that's what you firstly do when training babies to lead? Recalcitrant types? Horses with no go?
"No, I don't want to" usually becomes "forward go", if you push them from behind. Usually, I'm saying, you people with exceptions just TRY to be quiet for a minute, and think about it..
Hmmm, eh?
You do NOTHING with the head position, for the first several months/years of a horse's training. Okay, sorry, too much bold there.. NOTHING. If you do your early "stuff" correctly, the horse will naturally learn to relax through his top-line, and allow his back to swing, and voila. Horse's head will be in his very own right place. THAT's crucial too. Every horse is different, and each has a "sweet spot", where he can carry you comfortably, and still give you the roundness and softness and throughness we all like to ooooh over.
So, in answer to a question I received from Liz, don't worry about head set. Actually, Liz's little bay has a lovely natural head carriage. Red Mare is high-headed, and again, no need to change that, at all.
It's the wrong way to think about horse-or-any-animal training. Step one is getting them going forward consistently. Step two is being able to change speed and tempo. And those first two steps are the backbone, the foundation, for everything else that you do. It's that simple.
(No, it's not.)
Yes it is.
(No, it's NOT.)
Yes, it IS!!
(Stomps foot.. Hah!)
Sorry if I sound grumpy, I kinda am.
Post isn't finished, I wanted to ramble about spacing between trotting poles. See, even there, it depends.
But 4' is a good general rule. If your horse can take three trot strides betwixt, you need to buy an actual life-sized horse:)
I'll be baaaack.
2010 has been my y2K, brain wise..
Okay, Ready, Set The Head. No, no, no. Full stop. It's backwards, this whole idea that the head position is where the horse being broke starts. Nope, it isn't.
I Know that's where you lead them from. You don't want to be pushing them around by their large, dangerous arses, do you? Hard to find a halter to fit those big butts. Imagine giving them a rectal twitch.. Yeah, the head is way easier for leading, less prone to flatulence, although goobers are always in the possibilities. Halter classes would certainly be more exciting, if we always pushed them around by their bums:)
However, did you ever notice that's what you firstly do when training babies to lead? Recalcitrant types? Horses with no go?
"No, I don't want to" usually becomes "forward go", if you push them from behind. Usually, I'm saying, you people with exceptions just TRY to be quiet for a minute, and think about it..
Hmmm, eh?
You do NOTHING with the head position, for the first several months/years of a horse's training. Okay, sorry, too much bold there.. NOTHING. If you do your early "stuff" correctly, the horse will naturally learn to relax through his top-line, and allow his back to swing, and voila. Horse's head will be in his very own right place. THAT's crucial too. Every horse is different, and each has a "sweet spot", where he can carry you comfortably, and still give you the roundness and softness and throughness we all like to ooooh over.
So, in answer to a question I received from Liz, don't worry about head set. Actually, Liz's little bay has a lovely natural head carriage. Red Mare is high-headed, and again, no need to change that, at all.
It's the wrong way to think about horse-or-any-animal training. Step one is getting them going forward consistently. Step two is being able to change speed and tempo. And those first two steps are the backbone, the foundation, for everything else that you do. It's that simple.
(No, it's not.)
Yes it is.
(No, it's NOT.)
Yes, it IS!!
(Stomps foot.. Hah!)
Sorry if I sound grumpy, I kinda am.
Post isn't finished, I wanted to ramble about spacing between trotting poles. See, even there, it depends.
But 4' is a good general rule. If your horse can take three trot strides betwixt, you need to buy an actual life-sized horse:)
I'll be baaaack.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
NoWords
Recipe for Horse Hoof Destruction, 101
Take a sound horse, with well-tended feet. Place in a concrete garage pen, with very little food, and, (yesterday and this morning), no water. Do not remove any manure, for four months. Oh, sorry, just enough manure so that the horse won't outgrow his cage. Never add any clean fresh bedding. Ever. Don't fix the leaky roof, so that as much moisture and urine as possible can accumulate. Enclose the bottom of the cage entirely.
Do not muck out, nor add fresh bedding, until Wednesday night, July 28. SURPRISE, OSPCA will come and check your horse July 29, and will say "The horse has clean bedding and food and water". The flies are merciless now, and the horse's constant stomping on freshly bare concrete will split the hooves quite nicely. End result, a ruined foot, a mostlikely lame horse, and a heartbroken GoLightly.
Exhausted, I am, from lugging water to him yesterday, and today. I should NOT have done so, of course, because then the horse could have had a lovely colic, and voila, cruelty charges could have been laid.
Ever seen a horse die of colic? I have. Not gonna happen on my watch. Dang, probably blew the insurance claim, eh?
Isn't my nightmare looking well...
This fictional drama brought to you by the truth, in a cage.
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