[nagdu] Minature Horse Article

[Larry D. Keeler]

You're not going to find something unbiased!  I think that as long as you 
control the animal and its doing something, well that' all there is!  I know 
someone who has an amazon parrot that sits on his shoulder and he claims 
that the bird does something for his mental stability!  I don't know for 
sure but the few times i have encountered him the bird is well behaved and 
under control!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ava Foster" <avapup.7 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Minature Horse Article


>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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