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Blue Tongue and Hyperflexion - Petition

tjuri October 26, 2009 February 22, 2011

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http://epona.tv/uk/news/show/artikel/blue-tongues-at-world-cup-qualifie…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;[backPid]=388&cHash=563648c137 Here is an online petition to the FEI to ban rollkur/hyperflexion. You can sign it quickly...just watch as they try and weasel money out of you on the next step. You don't have to donate so just hit the x and get out of it if you are finished. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/antiHF/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I would be happy if some of you can cross-post this on other boards! People need to take action against this cruelty!

rabbitsfizz Mon, 10/26/2009 - 11:15

I just do not think that this form of potential torture has any part in the horse world.
I remember once I did up my mares noseband too tight and it rubbed her raw in under an hour, what these poor beasts are going through boggles the mind.,......and, for what????Pray????
It makes me absolutely [i]cringe[/i]when people on LB instruct driving people to do up the noseband tight if their horse is playing with the bit because "That is what the noseband is for!!!"
No, wrong, the noseband is, today, purely to look pretty, a remnant of a time when horse wore halters under their bridles and had a lead rope attached in the form of a lanyard round their necks (I speak as one who, in her youth, rode in full military gear!!), and that is [i]all[/i] a noseband is, nowadays.
Using this ....thing.....is beyond cruel and unusual, it approaches the realms of the TWH's (the padded ones) and the "Peanut Pushers" that I loathe so much!!!

lipigirl Tue, 10/27/2009 - 05:24

I already sighned the Rollkur one - the video actually made me cry with the blue tonge how can someone who claims to love horses do that to any horse - shame on him and others like him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - I'm beyond mad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :hammer :hammer :hammer :hammer :hammer :hammer :BH :BH :BH :BH
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Dilutes Wed, 10/28/2009 - 19:21

Yes I already signed a petition. I also joined the facebook group -

'Blue Tongue world cup warm up video'

http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=…" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm totally against it! For starters, just the fact the horse can't even see where it's going. You can't tell me that doesn't cause them to be anxious or stressed (let alone what's going on inside them as that position is not natural long term).