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Essay- Horses in Entertainment By: Cassie Dutot

What is classified as animal abuse? Neglecting cats and dogs? Beating animals? Making horses participate in life threatening events should classify also. Horses are forced to participate in inhumane events all the time. They don't have a choice but you do.

Using horses in entertainment is unacceptable. Horses get serious injuries. Those injurys can and will most likely lead to death. Most of the events are risks for the rider also. Horses dont have a choice on whether they want to participate in the events. They don't have a choice whether they want to risk their lives.

Horse racing and jumping are events that are very hard on the horses body. Millions of people watch horse races every year. Even I have. When you are sitting in the grandstand watching the race you don't realize what the horse is going through before during and after each race. During practice the owner has probably given the horse drugs to make it perform better. Drugs are illegal for humans. whay aren't they illegal for horses? During the race, the horse's joints probably hurt, but they can't stop. And when those joints hurt they willl try to run in a different way and end up getting a serious injury. When the race is over, if a horse doesn't do well or they have an injury that would be expensive to fix, they can and will be sent to the slaughter house.

Some of the more uncommon, yet more cruel events are horse diving, lion and tiger riding on horse, horse battling and horse soring. Horse diving is when a horse with a rider is obligated to jump off a platform that is 18 meters high down into a pool of water. Supposedly, the horses enjoy plummeting to their death. And apparently they don't get hurt. I find that hard to believe. This event, for sure, causes the most risk for the rider. I have an idea. Let's watch a horse prance around and arena with a 190.5 kg lion or tiger on it's back. Sounds fun, eh? I don't know how someone can watch an event such as this. It obviously causes the horses a great deal of pain. And on any of the videos I have seen the tiger doesn't seem to enjoy it either. Why on earth would someone think of putting two horses in a pen and watching them fight to their death? It doesn't make any sense. Why would people watch this? I just don't understand. Horse Soring is the most cruel hooves down. Their hooves are put in acid or have chains tightly wrapped on the to make them walk in a certain way. Frankly, they look really stupid.

Some events are not curel if the horse is trained right. Such as dressage. But that is one event out of the hundreds of others. Using horses in entertainment is a pernicious thing and should be put to an end as soon as possible. The horses don't have a voice, but you do so put an end to their pain and suffering. Stop the abuse!