On Confinement…
For me, the worst we humans do to animals is take away their autonomy, their freedom. Stick them in a cage, a crate, a tank, or, in the case of racehorses, a tiny 12×12 stall for the vast majority of…
The Cruelties: Confinement
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Dr. Kraig Kulikowski on Confinement
For me, the worst humans do to animals is take away their autonomy, their freedom. Stick them in a cage, a crate, a tank, or, in the case of racehorses, a tiny 12×12 stall for the vast majority of their…
Dr. Nicholas Dodman on Racehorse Confinement
For me, the worst human beings do to animals is take away their autonomy, their freedom. Stick them in a cage, a crate, a tank, or, in the case of racehorses, a tiny 12×12 stall for the vast majority of…
The Evil of Confinement Told Through the Story of Poor River Wolf
For me, the worst human beings do to animals is take away their autonomy, their freedom. Stick them in a cage, a crate, a tank, or, in the case of racehorses, a tiny 12×12 stall for the vast majority of…
“Do not morn [sic] for them. Many meet their demise doing what they love.”
Horse Racing Nation’s headline regarding Burning Bright’s death at Saratoga yesterday: “Saratoga: Sáez is injured in spill, will not ride Mage in Travers.” Vile enough, but it took the rag until the fifth paragraph to mention Burning by name (he…
The Evil (Yes, Evil) of Racehorse Confinement
For me, the very worst cruelty racehorses are made to suffer is confinement and isolation. Locking social, herd animals in tiny stalls – alone – for over 23 hours a day is heartrending beyond words. We know this, reflexively, instinctively,…
The Cruelty of Confinement; The Lie of “Enrichments”
Among the many wrongs of horseracing – the drugging and doping; the whipping; the buying, selling, trading, and dumping; the killing, of course – perhaps the worst of it is the everyday, unremitting cruelty of confinement and isolation. Dr. Richard…