Horse Abuse Or Not

A couple of days ago , I was walking through the classroom with my riding stuff and people were saying ” I thought you loved horses! Why do you whack them with that whip” and I said ” You don’t you lightly tap them to make them go slightly faster.” Crops and lunge whips are not horse abuse. People use them to make their horses go faster. Sometimes it can be abuse though.

Crops and lunge whips are important because :

• sometimes you horse is very lazy. so you just lightly tap it on the shoulder
• Sometimes your horse will refuse to jump so right before you jump lightly tap it ( if you don’t it can be dangerous because your horse could stop right away and make you fly over their head.
• sometimes you will threaten it with it but not hit it to make a lazy horse move

Crops and lunge whips can be animal abuse if :

• you whack it extremely hard
• you are just “playing” with it and your horse
• sometimes people will smack the horse’s but the lunge whip for fun

For an example of animal abuse watch this
http://youtu.be/-Wfq38NaGDU
~Lauren