[nagdu] Minature Horse Article

[Ava Foster]

I would just have liked to read an unbiased article, where the
reporter actually reported without conveying a bias for or againt
miniature horses. I don't know anything - well, much - about them as
service animals, but if one is going to quote someone as saying they
cannot be housebroken, I'd rather have a veterinarian or horse expert
quoted than a restaurant owner. I just dislike the attitude the
article seemed to convey that service animals are such a burden on
business owners. Of course, if a mini horse CANT be housetrained, that
is a major problem *grin*. Eww! As a horse lover and rider, well, I
wouldn't want to deal with that either. But I really thought I'd read
the Guide Horse Foundation did housetrain their guides. But I don't
know about the horse in the article. I do kind of wonder at the point
made by the Mini Horse Association rep that they are horses; but the
same argument I suppose could be made that, well, they are dogs,
shouldn't dogs be doing x or y or z? Sighs, is too much for me to
think about! Ava

On 3/30/12, Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, first of all, the restaurant association head probably did some
> research. Now, it may have been faulty. As for the elected official thinking
> maybe he'd like to be rid of all service animals, where do you glean that.
> Change is hard; as we have been discussing before, there was resistance to
> guide dogs, or service dogs if you will. I can remember being a part of it
> off and on. As for the horses, I was just not able to believe this was a
> good idea given the nature of a horse when I first heard about it; that one
> guy echoed many of the things I have learned since then. Education is
> important, and when we are starting something new like this, there will
> surely be bumps in the road and we just have to work on it.
>
> CL
>
>
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