tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post2270965419637027572..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: I'll Be SorryJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-52697819393944708362013-05-01T21:18:10.200-06:002013-05-01T21:18:10.200-06:00Waste not, want notWaste not, want notAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-34347440982420414512013-05-01T09:21:26.270-06:002013-05-01T09:21:26.270-06:00You don't have to drive far around here before...You don't have to drive far around here before you come across a little fenced in area, devoid of any vegetation or anything that might make it amenable to any kind of life form, with a horse standing in it. There are thousands upon thousands of these little quarantine areas in this country, and the horses who spend their lives in them all spend at least 99 percent of those lives just standing there.<br /><br />This is what horses lovers do to horses, when they aren't making them carry them around, which they do not want to do and in most cases have to be beat into accepting.<br /><br />And like just about any animal, any pet or any kind of animal, if you don't keep it chained up or locked up or caged up, it's gone. It does not want to be there. It has better things to do than hang around and provide entertainment for you.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-4039283925135824572013-05-01T08:48:55.892-06:002013-05-01T08:48:55.892-06:00As a horse owner and lover, as much as I hate to s...As a horse owner and lover, as much as I hate to see them slaughtered, it's a necessary evil. Too many people in this country breed their backyard horses to other backyard horses thinking they are going to produce some great $$ making champion, only to discover what they have is another expensive hay burner. Closing down the slaughterhouses here in the US hasn't "saved" those horses. They've just been shipped to Canada or worse yet, Mexico, where the conditions up until their slaughter are inhumane and out of our control. So Jim, I agree with you. I don't wish to eat horse, but slaughter in a humane fashion is preferable to seeing stories about these animal hoarders with a dozen emaciated horses on their property. Thanks for having the guts to say it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com