...so what happened in thousands of years prior to us floating their teeth?
A FELONY for floating teeth without a DVM behind your name?
WTF?
A *felony*?
Golly, then what do you get for trimming the hooves? A death sentence?
This must be a companion thread to the thread yesterday about the problems developing because ignorant liberals have outlawed horse slaughter which produces meat for human consumption. Instead of policing the slaughterhouse and ensuring that the slaughter is done humanely they have so fouled up the marketplace that the poor beasts are suffering terribly. Liberals have driven the price of feed through the roof because of the subsidies of biofuels and so the market is flooded with horses that people cannot afford to feed. Nor can they sell them. Many cannot afford to have a veterinarian euthanize them and dispose of the carcass. So the liberals have squeezed this traditional American relationship between man and horse from both sides and caused untold agony to the poor creatures. Many horses are trucked in indescribable conditions without water to Mexico for a thousand miles to slaughter.
There is no reason to require teeth be floated by a veterinarian. The procedure is too simple. This will only add more expense to the maintenance of pleasure horses and force more horses onto the trucks toward Mexico.
wait until we need a license to post opinions online
Bullsqueeze! This law was passed (probably at the urging of the Vets lobby) to provide vets with more work.
People with too much time on their hands must stop thinking up of ways to make people's lives more difficult.
Yeah, right. It was safety, not money.
This law is about controlling the drugs, which are being abused by the recreational drug users.
Actually, I support this. No one but a vet should administer the sedative, which is usually IV, and usually in fairly heavy doses, to enable the horse to tolerate the power tools most are using now in their mouth.
If they can do it without sedatives, then more power to them. Most though, can’t do as thorough a job.
As for how horses survived without this in the wild... well, in the wild, success is surviving long enough to breed. In domestication, we are keeping horses, and expecting them to be fit and healthy long into their 20s.
Mine is 28, and is still my riding horse.
Also not to be ignored, is that there is some amount amount of ‘survival of the fittest’ at work in the wild, and not so much in domestication. The uneven wear that is the problem is a problem because of imperfect bites. Those horses with really bad bites would die in the wild, in domestication, they can be easily floated, and bred.
Ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!