(December 25, 2020 at 6:58 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: If the horse doesn't want to - it's not going to.
But the thing is, you "break" a horse so that is no longer a factor. At first, they are like that. But after so many strokes of the whip, they comply.
My family raised horses growing up, so (maybe) I have some insights here. Maybe not though.
At one level, working horses is an exploitative enterprise. No doubt about that.
But at another level, horses actually like to be ridden. And they even like to pull. So it's not like every time you make a horse pull a wagon or ride down a trail that you are abusing them. They enjoy themselves more than appearances suggest.
But still (as I said before) the relationship is fundamentally exploitative. So there's that.
