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Really amazing video. I read an article awhile ago about how they were using some kind of 5G monitor on racehorses and many horses dropped dead for no apparent reason other than the monitors. Horses are beautiful, sensitive creatures that deserve to be treated with love and respect.

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Harnessing the horse was an amazing technological achievement undertaken on the Eurasian steppe perhaps seven to eight thousand years ago. It allowed the Indo-European language family to spread from a small, obscure group of semi-nomads north of the Caucasus mountains to the far reaches of Western Europe, Ireland and Iberia to the sub-continent of India and most places in between.

Thousand of years later more eastern nomads would utilize the horse to spread their nomad empires from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Without the horse as our extended "legs" we humans would have been a lot less mobile during the Neolithic.

I recall as a kid living in a fairly well-to-do part of Connecticut. One day as eight or nine year olds we saw a young woman riding a horse slowly down the road at the base of our driveway. As kids will do, we called out to her. Much to our amazement she turned her horse up our driveway and allowed us to pet the horse; I can't recall if we were allowed to ride it; probably not the risk of that would have been too much. But it was so nice of this young woman to pay attention to a bunch of rambunctious little boys with no sense. I later learned where her family lived in some enormous, palatial manse down the road from us. Never did see her again. Hope she is still alive and well and still has her horses. That would have been almost 60 years ago...

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Thanks for the share. We can use every reminder we can get about how to live with our fellow beings on this Earth. Very beautiful and insightful.

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The incredible legacy and beauty of our horse companions. What they've given us in service is beyond estimation. I was a 'cold walker' of thoroughbreds as one gig, years ago. They are very intelligent creatures. Thanks for this heads up!

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Horses are the unluckiest animals on the planet. A bit in the mouth is the least of it. If you’re going to ride, ride like a man: use a hackamore!

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Stable Genius

The bay gelding with the blazed face

and three tall socks had a lip on him

that could articulate a galvanized steel

lift and slide latch with such ease

that whichever side of said impediment he stood

became home field for a game of reversing fortunes

and not just his, I mean, but those too

of his stable mates who watched and heard

yet seemingly did not quite infer

what magic blessings a supple upper labrum

might, with practice, confer, in the way

Providence favors ingenuity with nerve

and on occasion graces both deserving and

undeserved with a chance, sweet amalgam,

in this case, corn, oats, barley, aromatic

in molasses, in the dead winter of night

when moon glow between boards of a little barn

casts bars of light on wheat straw,

when an odd one stops fiddling, a handle drops,

a stall door creaks and arcs, in darkness, true;

if the grain bin lid was up, he knew

what propriety requires when Luck grins,

and so would he roguishly traipse about muzzling

each latch to let the whole bunch out.

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After 15 minutes the horse’s back is being harmed. Omg. Wake up, humans. We are meant to walk softly and be kind.

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Ah yes, the women here are awesome and leave it to the delicate, sensitive, lovely and poised Celia to post this BUT I will answer with a verse Proverbs Chapter 10 verse 12, "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast..." which is to say the well being of his animals. Thus scriptures and the Author is opposed to animal cruelty. I am of the opinion cruelty is a sin.

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The way it is Tom has to do with attitude, intelligence and focus. I have met a few liberal women who were that and more but the ranks of conservative women seem to be filled with women of the three traits I mentioned in the first sentence and much more. My closest friend was a liberal at one time but seeing the error of her ways she changed to conservative. Liberals tend to the "woke" side which makes them unapproachable because everything they see is racisssssss and sexissssssssss.

You want to stay miles away from those nutbars.

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Celia YES! - thank you as ever :) Beautiful vibrations. Trauma turned to light. Repeat and amplify. Energy healing; self, and so all else. Love and gratitude again. x

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I started watching and had to stop to comment. This reminds me of my granddaughter, she got her first horse at age 10, his name was Frisco, sadly he died from bloat. She's now 29 and still has one horse as she sold the rest, she barrel races which she really enjoys but was an English rider from 10-16, she then thought western riding would be more fun. Thanks Celia for letting me go down memory lane, I have always loved horses, their eyes are the windows to their magnificent souls.

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Celia, I'm just using your post to make an unrelated comment - will watch the video though.

In case you're unfamiliar with him, I've just come across Joachim Bartoll (actually, I know I've seen him before but somehow didn't cotton on) and I think he should interest you for a number of reasons. Apart from being Swedish, he is obviously a very insightful analyst of how the world is run and he's very big on the carnivore diet and provides advice on it ... and he has a wolfdog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXoty0wwd2A). His website is https://bartoll.se/.

How I came across him just now was when I looked up Salman Rushdie fatwa hoax I found this:

https://bartoll.se/2022/08/salman-rushdie-fatwa-33-ritual/

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Horses eat leaves of grass.

But horses don't look like grass. The slogan "you are what you eat" is another undelivered Big Government promise! (LOL)

Maybe a competent painter could paint a realistic horse using only leaves, like that painter who painted people using fruits and fish and books.

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awesome thank you. have you seen monty roberts, jan fennell or buck Brannaman?

Or helpinghorsesheal?

https://www.tiktok.com/@helpinghorsesheal/video/7062896739476360453

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Eye opening and very sad to watch. Thank you for sharing.

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Amazing. Thank you for this.

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There is oft a sad side to beautiful things. "God looked and saw that the imaginations of man were on evil continually and it grieved God He had made man."

We need to be aware of this so as to not be surprised at what there is out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzcZ5DkASI

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