Hi All,
i have emailed Adam, via the countryfile website, to ask for his rationale for the nose-rings. .....LOL, hope i wont offend him with my questions. I will let you know what his reply contains.
Eve - that, in one short explaination, is a summary of the use of the whip
. It is often carried, but seldom used.
I also use a lunge whip for lunging the horses. It sort of looks like a ringmasters whip from a circus, six foot long with a seven or eight foot tail... BUT i have NEVER, in all the 40 odd years of owning horses, even touched a horse with one. They are used to encourage the horse to move forwards by snapping and popping behind the horse. The problem with whips is that they are most 'visable' to the public when watching horse racing....then it looks as if the jockey is thrashing the horse, which they are not actually doing! if they did they would be very very heavily fined...but the public perception sticks, and and that mud sticks to all horseriders!!!
some people concider the use of electric fencing to be cruel and restrictive......or a muzzle on a dog.....or castration....the list goes on!
Anyway back to the pigs, i didnt know whether i objected or not....I was undecided...hence the Q's.
cheers Emma T