DragonSlayer
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OMG!
Love it!
Love it!
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Fiona
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Me too
Fiona
Fiona
Fazzie
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And me !! Couldn't stop laughing
Spilletta
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Yes, it's great
I liked the previous one as well, with the little white dog and its blue bandage!
I liked the previous one as well, with the little white dog and its blue bandage!
EmmaC78
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Me too, I have two miniature shetlands and am now tempted to install a dog flap
ChesnutsRoasting
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I hate it. The horses look at him like he's a freak. Which, I suppose is what he is. Deliberately bred for his dwarfisn.
ChesnutsRoasting
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I hate it. The horses look at him like he's a freak. Which, I suppose is what he is. Deliberately bred for his dwarfism, which is now a desirable condition in animals.
splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
there is another thread on this and he wasn't deliberately bred for dwarfism, he is called acer and there is a link to some info about him and his breeder....
ChesnutsRoasting
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Well, he wasn't bred for a useful purpose was he? Ridden work, harness work? Field ornament, perhaps. Cuteness is the new black, regardless of potential health conditions, affecting these animals.
splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
the person breeds miniatures, I believe they are usually bred as pets.. not my cup of tea..... but there are lots of people who show them and I think some are driven...... so they do have as much purpose as other types of pets....I am in no way defending breeding for dwarfism but if people want to breed miniatures as pets I don't see the problem...
scotlass
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Pony looks lame on at least two occasions in the advert
Equi
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I have to correct this. He was most definitely not deliberately bred to be a dwarf. He is a miniature from some very successful parents and lines, he just happens to have been unlucky in the cards dealt.
Feel free to read this:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?714168-Equine-Dwarfisim-(Friesians-Mini-Horses-Mini-Donkeys-Welsh)
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minesadouble
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Pony looks horrendously unsound throughout to me.
Kezzabell2
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oh yes my mum called me in the other night to watch it!! then processed to question me about moving my sheltand to the garden, so I had to inform her he'd need another friend if she wanted him at home hehe!!
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
Poor deformed and lame pony.
It's also nuts having the horses circling round a caravan with the exposed tow hitch ready to cause a horrendous accident. No one remotely horsey would have set up that stunt.
It's also nuts having the horses circling round a caravan with the exposed tow hitch ready to cause a horrendous accident. No one remotely horsey would have set up that stunt.
Paint Me Proud
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Surely the professional horse handlers on site will have risk assessed each stunt and wouldnt have allowed it to go ahead if they felt there was too high a risk presented to the horses. Remember too that how a final scene looks on tv may not be representative of how it was shot in real life.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
It may have been a green screen job, but IMHO it's cringe making how it's presented.
Equi
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I just don't get the caravan at all though. She lives in a house. Why is there a caravan in the field? Lol
peaceandquiet1
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Haven't seen it, but I know a vet who has and she says the pony is lame
Equi
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The lameness is caused by the deformity of his legs and according to the owner causes him no pain it's just conformation.
I can't say for sure but I would wager that if he isn't in pain now, he eventually will be with arthritis due to the stress the limp causes on the rest of the body.
I can't say for sure but I would wager that if he isn't in pain now, he eventually will be with arthritis due to the stress the limp causes on the rest of the body.
Paint Me Proud
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if you consider humans with dwarfism they display an altered gate due to the proportions of their limbs, this is obviously the same for horses.
I am neither supporting nor condemning the use of this pony in the advert, tbh I've got more important things to worry about in my life, but suggesting it shouldnt be in the advert is kind of like saying warwick davis should act as he looks lame so is probably in pain.
I am neither supporting nor condemning the use of this pony in the advert, tbh I've got more important things to worry about in my life, but suggesting it shouldnt be in the advert is kind of like saying warwick davis should act as he looks lame so is probably in pain.
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fburton
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Link, please?!
Beausmate
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Equi
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The didference being Warwick is able to tell you if he is in pain and deal with it. The human vs horse argument does not really apply.
Wolfscastle
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There are strict rules now regarding animals on film sets so every horse had a handler for the shoot and a vet was in attendance all day, plus there was an electric fence around the old caravan.
MurphysMinder
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That doesn't alter the fact that the pony was lame.
Nudibranch
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It's just an advert - does the caravan thing really matter?! And yes, I would fully expect a pony of that conformation to show mechanical lameness.
Cinnamontoast
Fais pas chier!
The first time my horse saw Shetlands was when he was being hacked to our new yard. He was terrified, reared, spun, tried to go back the way he came, despite having happily gone past busy traffic and a bloke up a tree with a chainsaw before seeing the shetties.
If that's green screen on the caravan, I'll eat my hat and how can there be an electric fence round it when the horses are virtually touching the caravan?
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
Well, as someone who has known of horses suffering horrendous injuries from getting caught up in trailer hitches when turned out loose in a field with caravans and/or trailers, it leaves me stone cold.
If the advert had featured a well conformed and sound tiny pony, and the caravan was replaced with a safer object, I would find it rather endearing.
How many kids are now badgering their parents for a cute pony for indoors I wonder !