Posts Tagged ‘horses’
Stripping down the horse
Written by Hiddenhorse on 30/11/2009 – 3:25 pm -Imagine your horse lives at the center of three concentric circles or better yet, spheres and imagine if you can that your horse is imprisoned inside these two outer shells. These shells are curved and semi-opaque and therefore distort what is inside. You can travel inside them at will but your horse is trapped, this is because these two shells are human inventions and under the control of humans, only the human can create them or destroy them through choice. Read more »
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What is a Horse?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/10/2009 – 1:54 pm -This is the simplest of questions and yet it is often something that people who have spent a lifetime with horses cannot answer. Even career, equine professionals, with forty years experience behind them cannot answer this question, – and yet of all the things a horse owner must understand about a horse THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING! It is quite simply, the key to understanding everything your horse does, it is the key to your relationship, it is the key to a long happy and healthy life for you and your horse it is, – the key to everything…. Read more »
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What is Anthropomorphism?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 08/09/2009 – 4:06 pm -Since the second world war the relationship between humans and horses has changed. The traditional function of the horse as a working animal is much less appropriate because today, the majority of horses are used mainly for leisure and pleasure purposes. It is logical to assume that this situation has improved the lot of the horse with advances in animal welfare and animal husbandry and veterinary science, this really should be the case, – but it isn’t. Sadly, domestic horses are dying younger, suffering more ill-health and the numbers of horses with severe psychological and emotional problems are increasing all the time and most important of all, horses are becoming increasingly dangerous to be around. Why should this be? Read more »
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The Anthropomorphic Model
Written by Hiddenhorse on 03/09/2009 – 12:24 pm -In the last post I looked at the traditional utility model and you might think that that is the end of the story, rightly or wrongly horses are defined by their use, – but this is not so.
At the end of the second world war (1945) and perhaps for some years before, the role of the horse began to change, the jobs that had previously been done by horses now began to be performed by machines, so horses, that had, for hundreds of years, been solely defined by their function, now no longer had any function. So they no longer had anything to dictate how they were bred or fed or trained or treated. In some people’s eyes the horse literally became use-less. But as we all know this was not the end for the horse because as people’s leisure time and income increased in the post-war years, more and more horses found a new use as ‘recreational’ animals. Read more »
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