Posted on 09/20/2023 12:14:24 PM PDT by aculeus
Mr Ed nods
What do yo call it when you get your kids breasts removed?
Yes and it is a good idea.
To make things better for the benefit of man.
Thx
My understanding is that without a tail, the horses have no recourse to stop flies from biting.
The tails are there for a reason. Leave them alone.
Yes, I mentioned that.
Fred Noonan was her navigator, JFYI.
damn the BEE... wait, wut???
Not necessarily... if you lose control of a harnessed horse while maneuvering a heavy wagon with 7 other horses hitched to it (which can happen if there is an equipment failure or something that causes a horse to react or stumble), the resulting injuries when the horses collide and become entangled could result in having to put down some of the animals. Not to mention losing control of an 8 horse hitch when grounds are packed in the same area... would be as bad as driving an SUV into the crowd.
So, it is a small sacrifice to prevent potentially fatal injuries.
You can see a couple Clydesdale wrecks on YouTube. ...and that occurred in an arena setting that the horses were accustomed to, with very experienced crew, and it wasn’t a result of something frightening causing a horse to try to bolt, like throwing fireworks, a crazy flying a drone at them, or a siren going off. The Clydesdales remained really calm in the pileup, but that may be because the handlers never lost control of the reins and remained calm too.
But mainly, it was a solution to protect draft horses from the hazards of their daily work. It isn’t for human convenience, if anything it is inconvenient. Now, the work is for human convenience. But without it there would never have been such a thing as a draft horse in the first place and none would ever have been born.
As for tail, it is minor compared to the kicking and biting stallions do when fighting naturally in the wild. Old stallions get pretty scarred up in these fights. The tail’s purpose is to swat flies away, but modern draft horses are treated for flies...you don’t see horseflies trailing that beer wagon.
Docking sheep tails is another case done not for human convenience but to protect sheep from pests that could do serious damage to their rears. Breeding sheep for wool was for human convenience, but docking tails was not... it is just a consequence of the sheep no longer being short haired, and being unable to shed.
Once can say tradition is bad, but the only reason draft horse breeds haven’t been allowed to go extinct is because the tradition still stands and Clydesdales in particular are still good advertising. The reason domestic sheep are still around is because they are useful and can be cared for.
Breasts are organs, tails are hair.
I didn’t know that, but dogs tails are commonly docked. My horse, my choice. This is an extension of treating animals as property of political forces.
These animal rights activists need to try cleaning the matted horseshit out of the tail!
Dockin the tail is cruel. Trimming is what I was referring to in my previous post about cleaning their tails.
Many years ago, my dad bought a cow without a tail at an auction for dirt cheap. Everyone asked him why because she won’t be able to swat flies away. My dad looked at them and asked them if they had ever heard of fly spray.
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