(December 25, 2020 at 7:22 pm)Apollo Wrote: Right. You don’t just go out in the wild and ride any horse—you break them first—which really conditioning their behavior according to our own will.
I have never seen any horse getting “broken “ but I am guessing they probably don’t look too pleased first time around.
It's not an extremely cruel affair. But it does involve a whip.
I imagine that some do it with more cruelty than others. My aunt used to break horses, but she was pretty empathic towards them too. She wanted to bond with the animal more than she wanted to control it.
A horse can have a very loving bond with a human. A bond based on trust and not fear. But you often establish the relationship with use of a whip. That's kinda fucked up. True. But there's more to the relationship than that one fucked up part.
