Posted on 12/06/2012 5:50:33 PM PST by reaganaut
My mother's neighbors who are illegal aliens and La Raza, own a couple of horses, they aren't fed well and today they were out 'training' them making them run around a small corral and hitting them with a bull whip.
My mother and I don't think this is normal or right, so we decided to ask here on FR. Any suggestions? Should we report them?
Take one step at a time. First call the Humane Society and/or the ASPCA and report them.
If you are in Illinois, I can point you to some people who would be willing to come out and train the "trainers." Otherwise, you can contact a horse rescue and ask them to do the same. Two things: they probably are not breaking the law, and not every rescue shelter knows what it is doing.
Was it a real genuine bull whip or a common buggy whip available at any hardware or feed store.
It is normal to use a buggy whip to get them moving.
Obviously you are racists and Latinophobes, so make a anonymous phone call to the county animal control, from a pay phone while wearing a pointy white hood.
The ASPCA and the Humane Society won’t do crap for you, they don’t have training or the facilities. They might ask you for a donation, though.
If they are illegal report them for that.
Call the ASPCA or Humane Society in your area, just express your concern.
It was a real bull whip.
Oh we have, and for other code violations. It is just one thing after another with these clowns.
My first thought was to call Animal Control.
Sadly, it is California not Illinois.
As a volunteer with my local ASPCA, I can tell you that they do alot of good and will investigate animal abuse charges.
These people need to be reported yesterday.
Bullwhips are NOT meant for hitting animals. They are primarily used to make noise to direct herds of cattle. You could get the same result with a gunshot, but of course then you’d be wasting a lot of ammunition.
Cattle handlers don’t use bullwhips to hit the animals because the whip will damage the hide. A direct hit by a bullwhip can break human bones.
You can use a bullwhip to train a horse, but only in so far as you learn to crack it properly (and safely) in order to control the horse with the sound.
Many people are not aware the the crack of a bullwhip is actually a sonic boom. The force of energy going through a cracking bull whip actually breaks the sound barrier at a certain point in the cracking motion, and that’s what causes the sound.
That’s a lot of power for any living creature to be hit with.
And you’ve probably never seen them rescue a horse.
I like that. I may just do exactly that.
Thank you. This happened today and my mother is reading this thread, so they will get reported first thing in the morning.
How about PETA ,,, PEOPLE for the ETHICAL TREATMENT of ANIMALS . Perhaps they will arrest the horse for not responding correctly to the illegals for reasons of racism .
Do you know if the horse was an illegal alien also,, if so forget about the whole thing .
In Texas, the sheriff’s department normally handles cruelty to livestock. I would call them as I imagine California has cruelty laws pertaining to horses as well as others.
Don’t count on that.
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