The Write Horse: Get Ready!
It’s a get ready weekend!
For me, get ready for September, which holds a slew of agility trials. For today, get ready for the weekend–and that means figuring out where Dart Puppy is slipping out of the back yard, and setting myself up with some OH YEAH COOL I CAN’T WAIT scenes in the book.
For this morning, it means “Here comes the Write Horse!” And possibly some thinking that if you haven’t ever owned a horse, you haven’t ever considered.
There are a lot of people making decisions about animal legislation these days…and far too many of them no longer have a day-to-day acquaintance with those animals, or even a passing awareness of the logistics of training, housing, handling, and loving those animals. To a certain extent, those of us deeply involved with animals have let this happen–because the realities of what we know from intimate acquaintance are so very obvious, it doesn’t occur to us that other people can’t see it, too.
One of these days I’ll go on my spay/neuter kick. Let’s just say that in the past thirty years, I’ve owned only one dog who hit the spay/neuter stage before she hit complete maturity or beyond, and if I have anything to say about it, that’s the way it’ll continue. I don’t breed; I don’t intend to breed. But I know what’s best for my animals, and those who are not handling them/competing them/training them…
Well, they don’t.
So which of us should be making the decisions?
Tags: dogs, horses, Opinionated
