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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.
 
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....
 
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....

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.
 
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...
 
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.

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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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!!
 
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.

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.

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.
 
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.
 
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.

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?
 
It's just an advert - does the caravan thing really matter?!
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.
 
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