Living the Horseback Riding Dream – Horseback Riding Lessons
Although some horses (like some people) have the good fortune to die peacefully in their sleep of old age, most horses will eventually reach a stage (due to severe injury, disease or incapacity) where the most humane action is to put them down. For the horse owner, this can be a very difficult and painful decision, in terms of when a horse should be put down, as well as how. This article is the personal view of one horse owner on this subject.
Is Now the Time?
If a horse is in a lot of pain and distress, due to an incurable injury or disease, the only correct action is to put it down as quickly and as humanely as possible. However, in some cases the decision is not as clear.
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The Cost of Owning Horses in the Suburbs – Average Cost & Expenses For Horses
In today’s society about 20% of families in the United States own more than one horse.
Thousands of other families living in urban or suburban communities with small acres of land and some with no land at all would like to own a horse or two. Many of these families have very little to no knowledge in owning horses in the suburbs or urban horse keeping.
Milk and History
Mongolia is the only place in the world where wild horses exist (the “wild” horses in the US are actually feral). On the Mongolian steppes, tribes of nomads still domesticate wild horses, where they milk them and occasionally slaughter them for meat.
