Horses and the Panic Society. Horses have been part of the human culture ever since people found out that they could be abused as a beast of burden. Before that, they were hunted for food. The horse originated in North and South America. They started out as a species about the size of a dog and had paws. They soon evolved into a larger animal designed for speed. The paws changed into a hoof. All horses disappeared in North and South America by the year 10,000 BC. It is not known what caused this extinction. Those that survived had crossed the land bridge into Asia where they then spread into Europe. They were captured and tamed by those evil White Europeans in those cultures, bred for specific tasks, and abused for all kinds of jobs. Horses came back to North America as a result of the Spanish invasion of Central America. Some of those horses soon escaped. They rapidly multiplied and spread throughout the western areas of North America. The Native Americans soon captured some of them. Horses soon allowed the Native Americans to vastly improved their lives. They were far more successful in obtaining food and clothing. That is, until the evil White Europeans invaded their land and killed off all the buffalo. Horses were abused to work the fields of the farmers. They were abused in pulling the wagons and barges of commerce. They were abused in the mines. They carried the soldiers and their equipment into battle where they suffered a brutal end. They were exploited for entertainment in circuses. They were exploited for racing. Horses have often suffered abuse under the hand of some cruel, uncaring masters. They were overworked, underfed, and beaten to death by uncaring individuals. They have been crowded into small pens, trailers, and dirty stalls. Thousands starved to death in a ranch in Texas in the late 1980s. A tractor trailer jammed full of horses in Detroit lost its floor and spilled out horses onto the freeway at 55 mph. Horses have been electrocuted on hot walker machines. They have been cut to ribbons by barb wire fences. They have choked to death on short rope ties. They have been ridden to death in endurance races on hot muggy days. In that awful movie, Ben Hur, horses were deliberately tripped by a rope as they were pulling chariot at a full gallop. Some of those horses were badly injured. Your Glorious Leaders launched a protest and boycott of this movie. In war they suffered greatly. Millions of horses suffered painful mulitlating death on the battlefield of World War 1. Even millions more died in the second world war or were killed for food. The American Humane Society was formed in the 19th. Century. It was made up of groups of horse lovers who were shocked and outraged by the harsh treatment that horses were suffering as a result of uncaring teamsters in the big cities. They pushed for and got passed laws that made it a crime to be cruel to animals. People that were abusive to their animals were soon punished for their abuse and their animals rescued. Evil White European males in the 20th Century created many more problems. The horse ended up in the middle of some of this mess. A great panic occurred over the plight of the American Mustang or "Wild Horses." Evil ranchers out West didn't like the wild horses because they eat grazing land and drink the water that is needed for their evil, methane producing, land destroying, cattle. Their solution was to shoot them, or round them up to sell for dog food. Your heros, the Animal Rights Activists, became outraged over this. They fought for laws that banned this practice. They also organized a wild horse adoption plan. Wild horses were rounded up and adopted. It did not worked that well. The Mustangs are very spooky and difficult to tame. Many of them ended up being killed or injured in the capture process. It was difficult to find caring homes for them. Few people had the patience or knowledge to handle such wild animals. Many of those animals ended up as dog food anyhow due to poor record keeping on finding suitable homes for them. OCR Scan, Saginaw News LAS VEGAS (AP) - Beneath skies where fighter jets stage mock battles, thousands of wild horses face a real struggle to survive on the desert floor. Years of neglect, drought, over grating and a court fight have combined to threaten the largest herd of wild horses in the nation. Horse carcasses litter the landscape, say those who have been allowed on the NeLlis Air Force Base test range. Stations battle over drops of water in mudholes, and mares abandon their foals in the desperate search for water. Up to 6,000 horses roam the range, which stretches north of Las Vegas nearly to Tonopah, some 200 miles away. With 700 square miles of the range overgrazed by the horses and Nevada in its fifth year of drought, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says the range can sUPpOrt no more than 2,000 horses. "It's just devastating, just an awful sight to see," said Karen Lewallen, a member of the National Wild Horse Association. Base officials truck in 10,000 gallons of water a day. Animals that would normally bolt at the sight oF man instead run aFter the water trucks. "The ones still strong enough were fighting each other as the water was coming out of the truck." said Lewallen. The wild horses, descendants oF horses turned loose by ranchers and the military over the years, are part of an estimated 50,000 that roam the West. The herds grew steadily since a 1971 Federal law prohibiting the capture, sale or slaughter of the horses. The legislation left the bureau responsible for removing animals from overpopulated or drought-ravaged areas . The Nellis herd, though, received little attention. partly because of restricted access to the huge Air Force range, where pilots hone their skills in daily mock dogfights. In addition, the Animal Protection institute sued in 1987, claiming the bureau - elsewhere in the state was removing horses not so much for their own good but to help ranchers, whose cattle have to compete for food. Although no cattle graze on the Air Force land, the lawsuit stopped most removals. The bureau caught 600 horses at Nellis in 1989, saying it was an emergency. it cited the same conditions this time, and the institute agreed. BLM director Cy Jamison told a Senate subcommittee that herd management in Nevada "is out of balance and facing a crisis." "The horses are doing damage in Nevada" and suffering themselves, Jamison said. "We find mares with colts that are skin and bones, barely able to walk. They are starving to death, literally eating themselvEs out of house and home." * Your glorious leaders soon found out that riding horses could be more dangerous then riding motorcycles. A report from the Center of Disease Control stated that horseback riders suffer one injury every 350 hours of riding compared to 7000 hours for a motorcycle rider. Liberals passed laws in some states to require anyone under 21 to wear a safety helmet when horseback riding. In a North Carolina survey, nearly 40 percent of people killed by filing off horses had been drinking, the national Centers for Disease Control said. "Having a few drinks before galloping off is common for too many riders," said Dr. Doks Bixby-Hammett, secretary of the American Medical Equestrian Association. "The fox hunters always had their brandy; it's part of the tradition," she said. "But from the medical standpoint, we feel this is not advisable." The study examined blood-alcohol content from 13 people killed in North Carolina. People have also been bitten, kicked, stomped, crushed, and attacked by horses. They have suffered deaths and injuries when they have fallen off, been bucked off, or have been run over by a horse. Horses have even fallen over backwards on their riders. (Both accidentally and deliberately.) 92,763 injuries occurred in 1987 that required treatment. Stallions could be even more of a problem. People have been killed or injured when those animals tried to get away from their handlers. When a stallion has his mind set on a mare, look out! Even some women have been molested or attacked by stallions, pony studs being the worst offenders. The breeding of race horses could be a nerve racking experience for both horse and handler. A breeders' law for Thoroughbred society requires that all registered thoroughbreds have to be naturally bred. No artificial insemination is allowed. This is also true for most registered breeds of horses. Many thoroughbred stallions are usually mental cases at breeding age or retirement from racing. Those stallions go completely crazy the minute they hear or smell any mare. Stud halters with chains around the nose are often needed to control this 1200 lbs. of sex crazed animal. Yet, some of them command huge stud fees often in the hundred of thousands of dollars. Because those studs were considered so valuable by their evil, greedy owners, the mares were often roughly handled. Mares were hobbled, chained, trussed, and twitched in preparation for breeding. This is all done to keep her from possibly kicking the stallion. The process amounts to little more then horse rape. The resulting offsprings were even more of a nut case as speed is all they were being bred for. Backyard breeders are also a problem. Besides letting their stallions getting loose and chasing all the neighborhood mares, they often let their stallions breed any mare brought to them, sometimes, for a 6 pack of beer. The results have been a lot of grade horses, many of poor quality, that soon end up at the butchers. This, of course, got Animal Rights Activists up in a frenzy. Ponies were often thought of as being cute and ideal for the kids to ride. But, that was not the norm. Kids were often abusive to ponies. They either didn't pay any attention to ponies, or pestered the poor animal to the point of rebellion. The kids soon got too big for the pony as well. Ponies are also very smart. They soon figured out how to get rid of the kids that were pestering them. Since kids were often not strong enough or smart enough to handle a pony, many of the kids got bucked off. Soon, the kid could no longer catch them. Ponies also ran away from kids. If cornered, they could bite and kick the kids. They are also good at escaping from pastures and barns. They quickly learned how to open up a gate or crawl under a fence. They could then make quite a mess of the neighbors' garden. Adults would then try to discipline those ponies. Because an adult is so much bigger, many ponies were often injured by this abuse. However, that didn't stop many people from buying horses and ponies for their kids in the 50s. The breeders soon responded by raising more ponies. At $300 to $500 each, they were quite profitable to raise. Then, in the 60s there was a huge crash in the pony market. The breeders had finally flooded the market. At the same time Your Glorious Leaders passed laws to ban ponies from the backyards. Suddenly, there was a huge number of ponies that didn't have any homes. The price fell to the point of free, Most of the professional breeders went bankrupt. The pony division, and pony class at the Saginaw Fair was dropped from exhibition due to lack of contestants. (Most individual exhibiter had long ago been driven away by the professionals.) Many ponies starved to death. Many of them ended up at the butchers. Others ended up being sacrificed on the surgical table at Michigan State University. Each medical student could practice operating on several ponies during their surgical courses in the early 60s. The animal was then killed by lethal injection if it had survived the surgery. The manure from horses could also be hazardous. It attracted flies and rats. It also had a rank odor. Even worse, it contained tetanus, a bacteria that would cause lockjaw, an often fatal infection. Horse shows were an event that was started where evil people could show off their horses and their skills. They started out as events where people could show their horses, or show off the riding skills. Soon, those shows begin to attract a great deal of attention. The prize money soon got to be quite large. The shows begin to be used as an advertising tool to sell horses and stud service. The big breeders soon begin to control many of those shows. Judges soon were bribed to favor certain breeders. Other horse shows soon became very ugly. Horse trainers often used chemicals, chains, and other devices of tortures to get their animals to perform fancy footsteps and other unnatural behavior. The horses were often injected with transplants to hide blemishes. There were even fake stallions among the geldings. Your Glorious Leaders soon starting screaming about all of this. The first thing that was done was to pass laws that forbid anyone that had less then 5 acres of land from having a horse or pony. Many of those animals ended up as dog food when their owners had to get rid of them and couldn't find a home for them. Many communities started to restrict horseback riding. Parks and many streets are now closed to horses. Landowners mad at the carelessness of RTV and snowmobile owners soon fenced up and posted keep out signs all over their property. Many riding stables were closed up due to the problems of lawsuits, lack of insurance, high costs, abuse of their animals, and the constant harassment by Animal Rights Extremist. Many of those horses also ended up in the dog food factories. Then, there was panic over the horses ending up as dog food. Laws were passed regulating the dog food industry. The horses were soon bought by butchers and then shipped to Europe. There was screaming about the shipping of horses to Europe as people food. Your Glorious Leaders were upset that horses are being used to pull buggies in Central Park, Frankenmuth, Mackinaw Island, and other places. Because of one rare case where a carriage horse collapsed from heat stroke, members of PeTA and others scream that using horses to pull carriages is cruel. Some members have even gone so far as to tear gas the carriage drivers. In Frankenmuth, they tried to put the carriage company out of business by lodging a continuous barrage of complaints about manure, being out at night, and traffic violations. All sorts of problems have occurred in the quest for the faster race horse. There has been all kinds of selective breeding. There has been special nutrition programs, medical testing, and other expensive programs to find out just how fast the racehorse can go. Those studies also look for problems that can occur and how to solve them. The screaming by Your Glorious Leaders continued. Horses were not been able to go faster for 20 years. Many race horses suffer from a genetic defect that causes bleeding in their lungs when they are under stress during racing. Several states banned the use of drugs that stop this bleeding. There have also been many injuries that have resulted in the death of race horses lately. The most famous was that of a match race with Ruffian. Halfway through the race, she broke a bone in her ankle. After several hours in the veterinary hospital, she was put down. The evil owners got a big insurance payment as a result. Saginaw Raceway also had horses die while racing. During one race, a trotter raced around the track in the lead. Suddenly, it slowed way down. It collapsed dead at the finish line where it was dragged off with a backhoe. The week of the Breeders Cup at Belmont, October 1990 was especially hazardous to racehorses. Six horses suffered various injuries during training. On race day, October 27, 1990, a colt named Mr. Nickolson, dropped dead on the first turn. Go for Wand, a 3 year old filly, broke her ankle and fell to the track. She then limped to the finish line where she was then put to death by lethal injection. A third horse was also killed when it was discovered that he suffered a spinal injury as a result of jumping over the dead Mr. Nicholson. As usual, the evil owners collected huge insurance payments. During the running of the 1993 Preakness, Union City shattered his right front ankle. Of course, he was put down and the insurance money collected by the evil owners. The Belmont race also saw another racehorse shatter his forleg with the same result. Your Glorious Leaders howled in protest. Something had to be done about horse racing. Horses were being killed in them. The so called "Park Horse" or "Parade Horse" owners came under attack by the heroic Animal Rights movement. The training equipment is very cruel. Laws were passed to get rid of the bits, chains, and other gadgets that some trainers use to make their horses walk those fancy gaits. Show horses came under the same attacks. Judges are being investigated and animals tested to see if any unethical methods are being used to produce winners in those shows. In Great Britain, 1992, Horses became the victims of bazzare mutilation. Over the past year, 22 horses were attacked in their stables or pasture by an unknown group of assailants and copycats. Most attacks have been in the Hampshire area. The horses had been attacked with a sharp object in the genital areas. Two had died from the disfiguring, painful mutilations to the genial area. The Panic Society has finally put a stop to this madness. For the good and well being of people and horses, no one is allowed near, or around a horse or pony. All stallions were gelded to eliminate the dangerous breeding of horses. All wild horses and ponies were rounded up and all stallions gelded. Any confined horses or ponies were moved and turned loose to live free with the remaining wild horses for the rest of their natural lives. This ensure the planned humane extinction of a species of domesticated animals that was dragged over to the Americas by those Evil Greedy Europeans. All manure was moved away from areas where Panic People are living. All books were cleared of any references of horses and people other then that of horses as any other animal in the Panic Society. On the Negative side. The lost of man's favorite friend. Also, many horses and ponies suffered a miserable death as a result of the harsh conditions that are faced by any wild animal. The horse and pony in the Americas vanish forever "for their own good and well being". Is this all possible? 1990's Most people in China are not allowed to own horses or ponies. Many US cities and suburbs have banned horses from their areas. Riding clubs and places to board horses in those cities are being closed. Mounted police are being reduced in numbers or are being eliminated in the larger cities. Panic People are suing horse and pony owners in record numbers. Animal Rights Activists in humane societies are harassing and charging horse owners with abuse charges in record numbers. Fewer and fewer people are able to afford or care for horses. Many of those horses are ending up at the butchers. Those that can afford to keep horses are becoming unable to keep them nearby or on their property. If allowed to have their way, Animal Rights activists will soon place breeding restrictions on horses and force the backyard breeders to geld their stallions. This will soon eliminate a lot of horses and drive up the cost of purchasing one. From the Archives, For your eyes only. If you're a horse, move to Marin County, California. Marin is one of the key bases of the Tellington Equine Awareness Method (TEAM), a group of humans who spend their days massaging horses. TEAM member Tina Hutton says the group uses a system of finger and hand-touching techniques on ornery equines. She starts with circular movements on the forehead and moves into the mouth, where she can "play piano on his tongue." All of which improves the horse's "ability to make aware choices." Hutton insists the stroking does not lead to any codependent relationships between owners and beasts.