If nothing else, the filmmakers would want to protect their investment. Having the star die in the middle of making a movie is Hell on budgets.
I guess every cowboy that ground ties his horse and everyone that uses a picket pin for their horse is guilty of animal cruelty. This was an accident.
I agree with you.
Fire everybody!
LOL
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This really sounds like an accident to me. Anyone that's been riding for a few years has had a horse get away from them.
However, it's nothing to get upset about. As long as the owner is properly compensated for the loss of his property another horse can always be found to finish the film.
I'm going to go see the movie just to see if the put that silly little disclaimer at the end of movies, "no animals were hurt during the filming of this movie"
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Have you go a personal beef with these people? It's true that horses generally should not be turned loose dragging a leadrope, but I think you have let your anger at these film-makers get the best of your perspective on this. Film-making has often been hard on horses, and I am actually more than happy to see oversight by humane advocates... But accidents will always still happen to people and horses in active pursuits.
Just damn. I want to be prosecuted for the time a 15-hand, 1250 pound Quarterhorse stud knocked me to the ground and ran off to mount some love-smelly mare. I held on to the lead up until the point the pounding hooves were beating a conga on my body. I admit to being irresponsible enough to let go at that point.
Can somebody please recommend a prosecutor stupid enough to ignore intent, so that I may pursue this ALF/politically-correct prosecution of myself? Any help will be rewarded by my granting you permission to beat me with a blogbat.
Thank you and while you are at it please tell me of a doctor who can remove my tongue from its position firmly in cheek.
Heck, I've got several horses that can untie their own lead rope if you don't watch them like a hawk. A horse needs to be tied with a quick release knot so that he can be easily freed if something spooks him and he pulls back and panics, so you can't tie a really tight knot to begin with. I think this is just a tragic accident and and the witch hunt needs to stop.
It's Bush's fault.
So the "No Animals Were Harmed During the Making of This Film" disclaimer won't be in the screen credits this time.
So the "No Animals Were Harmed During the Making of This Film" disclaimer won't be in the screen credits this time.
I'm sure I'm late getting into this argument.
As anybody who has worked with horses knows, accidents are inevitable in the best of circumtances. My own mare nearly killed herself in a trailer by freaking out --- over what, God knows --- and nearly severed her leg. Took a year to heal up.
Another friend turned a young gelding loose in an arena, after its having been kept in a stall for days because of rain and mud, and he went galloping and buckling around the arena and flipped over and broke his neck. No halter, just running free. I think he crossed his forefeet.
Nobody was being cruel to either of these animals.
P.S. Horsemeat is pretty good, I wonder if they are going to let this big ol' steak go to waste?
This sounds like an accident.