When you imagine a horse, what do you see? This perhaps?
Two months ago I was reading the paper and after I turned the page, I saw an image which struck sheer terror through me - horses fighting.
In china and the Philippines each year stallions are put together in a ring with a mare who is in season, in order to frenzy them so that they will fight to the death. It is illegal in the Philippines (however it is not policed so remains a feature of many villages) and legal in china where they class it as a 500yr old tradition and although the government has been petitioned they have refused to ban it.
The people who run these fights, who are largely organised crime networks, earn vast sums of money through betting and have a total lack of regard for the stallions welfare along with the mare, who used as bait, may be covered by "championing stallions" over thirty times in a 6hr period. even before she has to suffer the torture of being covered yet again, she will be kicked and bitten repeatedly by the duelling stallions in each fight.
In Britain people do not usually leave their colts entire and will have them gelded in the first 6 months of their life, unless the colts will be used for breeding purposes later in life. Anybody who has a stallion ( I do) will tell you that you cannot leave a stallion in a field with another gelding or stallion as the hormones take over and they fight to the death.
The people in these countries do not only watch this barbaric sport themselves, but children are also taken along- so from a very young age think that this sport is acceptable.
To read the articles which I have found please type "horse fighting" into Google where you will get the full reports from both the Philippines and china.
The WSPA Asia is running a campaign in association with the network for animals, in which it would like people to write to the Philippine bureau of animal welfare.
8 comments:
Sends shivers down the spine to think that such disgusting behaviour is carried out by human beings.
how utterly horrifying.
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thank you for you comment however i dont know which ebsites i can do this? your help would be great.
Thanks
merlins Wizard
This is horrific. We have cockfighting here and that's really bad too, but I'd never heard of horse-fighting.
There is a problem with dog fighting and also cock-fighting in this country, however it is very much "underground" and largly funded/profitted by organised crime.
MW xx
THIS IS A HORRIFIC SIGHT THAT SHOULD NOT BE ENJOYED AT ANY COST.
ALL ANIMAL FIGHTING SHOULD BE BANNED IN MY OPINION
IT IS UNFAIR AND A TERRIBLE ACT OF THE CRIMINAL MIND!!!!!!!!!!!
Anoyn posts: Thank you for sharing my passion. I am sick of people being cruel to animals, after all where would mankind be without these wonderful creatures?
Take Care
Merlins Wizard
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