Awful youtube video with blatant abuse

[K9soul]

I don't normally post these types of things and I don't look for animal abuse videos. I happened to be curious about this "Mexican dancing" type thing some people are training their horses to do, I guess it is more widely done in Mexico. So I looked up some videos to see what it was exactly and found quite a few videos of frightened and upset looking horses doing a frantic type of footwork that is similar to a dressage step but yet not dressage at all.

Some of them were being hit and some looked like they had been hit before and were scared. But after this one I couldn't watch anymore and it has haunted me since. But just a warning, it is not a fun thing to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTT9Z9Ld4dg

I flagged it to youtube as animal abuse.

[RICHARD]

Now, I don't know a great deal about Lippizaner horses, but don't they do the same kind of footwork?

Having been to a charreada (mexican rodeo) before, I do not agree with the way they are run. I have this aversion to people making any animal do extraordinary things to entertain them.

[BC_MoM]

Flagged it as well. Poor horses.

I believe the Lippizaner horses do similar work, if not the same, but they have much more humane and gentler ways of teaching.

[K9soul]

It is similar to dressage type moves which Lipizzaners and other dressage type horses do except from what I can tell they are supposed to just mostly stand in one small area and do it and also there are some head tosses and bucks often done. The thing is a lot of the training methods I see for these "charro" horses (apparently this discipline is referred to as charro) consists of smacking the crap out of them with a quirt to make them jump and turn and so on, as well as liberal use of painful bits and spurs. I do not think as a rule dressage trained horses are abusively trained like that. Of course that is not to say abuse doesn't exist in the dressage world, it certainly does, as it does in all animal/human activities. I have no problem with freestyle, dressage, the lipizzaners, and such as long as it is done humanely.

This video in particular just made me sick. Especially whipping it in the face like that.

[Pam]

That was disgusting. Someone needs to hit El Gordo with that whip.

[lizbud]

El Gordo needs his a** kicked, preferably by this horse.

[RICHARD]

Charro is the generic term for a Mexican cowboy. A charreada is a Mex rodeo.

Years ago I attended a concert/rodeo event that honored Antonio Aguilar and his wife, Flor Silvestre. Now, being older and knowing how animals are trained and treated, I have a different view of things-But, at that time I was
engrossed at the spectacle. Charros dress in pretty extravagant costumes and the tack of the animals is elaborate and very regal. I am sure that not all animals are treated with so much abuse and brutality.

As in any story concerning animals, training and handling there are the worst cases that get the 'ink'-for each case you see of abuse, there may be hundreds, if not thousands of animals that are treated better than you or me.

And I take exception to you using my "Nom de Youth" in a derogatory manner.
El Gordo is now 6'2' and 240 lbs.

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I won't watch the clips because it makes me crazy.

[Husky_mom]

100% agree!!..... there are ways of doing things right.... and this is not it...