Why?

[Exasperated]

And it's a hat trick. All three of the usual ignorant excuses to justify abusing a horse because it happens....if they touch electric fences.........a mare disciplines her foal .........a 'stinging' slap across one of the most sensitive areas of the horse.

Get outta here with your lack of equine education and pure ignorance, encouraging abuse of horses because you don't have the intelligence and empathy to train a horse to be courteous and safe without resorting to violence to achieve a false dominance over a horse.

That is all your method does, it dominates with the use of fear and lack of trust of humans, it does not and never will train a confident and polite horse that works willingly with it's owner or rider because it actually enjoys the interaction and partnership with humans.

So sorry to disappoint your noir view of cowering, miserable, distrustful nags; unfortunately for your script, mine are anything but.
Must let them know just how sadly abused and truly downtrodden their existence now is, that’ll really shock ‘em, for sure, much better than an electric cattle prod or any damn thing else.
Mine may do plenty other playful or irritating things others’d be intolerant of, but they don’t bite people.
However, please don’t spoil a good story, bit of self-righteous indignation and vitriol always good for your soul, and so evidently abundant in multiple contributions on this ‘forum’.
Love from the gang, all in chains and despair, of course.... what else?

 

[meandmyself]

So sorry to disappoint your noir view of cowering, miserable, distrustful nags; unfortunately for your script, mine are anything but.
Must let them know just how sadly abused and truly downtrodden their existence now is, that’ll really shock ‘em, for sure, much better than an electric cattle prod or any damn thing else.
Mine may do plenty other playful or irritating things others’d be intolerant of, but they don’t bite people.
However, please don’t spoil a good story, bit of self-righteous indignation and vitriol always good for your soul, and so evidently abundant in multiple contributions on this ‘forum’.
Love from the gang, all in chains and despair, of course.... what else?

Mine doesn't bite either and I've never hit him. Weird that, isn't it?

 

[Highmileagecob]

My old boy comes from a traveller background. Any raised voices, or threat of any kind and he changes into an aggressive, defensive half ton of fury. No idea what went on in his younger days, but he clearly remembers. It's enough to push him back out of my space if he does something unacceptable, but to be fair, at 30yo, he never puts a foot wrong.