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Originally Posted by IrishSpring2013
another horse dies?? how many have to die.. how many animals have to be needlessly tied up,.. Roped up..for our entertainment before this GARBAGE is banned.. what year are we in..
ive seen videos of the cowboys jamming horses with metal rods to piss them off.. make them really buck.. Sickens me.. Should sicken everyone one..
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It's important to note for the chuckwagons that a lot of these horses are Thoroughbreds from the racetrack. By the age of three, if the horse hasn't shown anything on the track, its career on the racetrack is pretty much over. Even if it has, unless you're talking about the best of the best, most of them are done by six or so. The very fortunate few get to go out to stud, but that's not realistic for most of them. Instead, the USA alone has shipped tens of thousands of horses to Mexico and Canada to be slaughtered.
The fortunate ones are the ones we're watching at the Chucks. These were the racetrack horses spared from the slaughterhouse. And I mean literally, it's at the same auction that slaughterhouses are bidding against these chuckwagon racers for these horses. So, at least with the chuckwagon races, for the most part, the horses have already been saved. It's just a question of whether you believe they are being treated so cruelly that death would be better. I'm not a horse, but having interacted with chuckwagon horses, I believe that they are generally well cared, enjoy racing and are often treated as family members.
It's not only possible, but likely, that the horse that was put down yesterday would have been slaughtered years ago but instead got to live a happy life for years because of the chuckwagons.
I'm an animal lover as well, and there's a lot of senseless animal cruelty and a ton of animal issues that should find more advocacy behind them, but when it comes to chuckwagon horses, they've got a fair deal in comparison.