All the Creatures

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Guest post written by Tim Brewster

When I told my wife that I thought we should get our daughter some horseback riding lessons for her birthday as a surprise, she disagreed with my, to put it mildly. She just really hated the thought of our daughter riding horses. For some reason my wife thinks that horses are really dangerous, no matter how many times I’ve told her that these horses at these riding places are trained to be really calm and are used to working with kids.

Well, I went online to see if I could find some more information so that it would help me convince my wife that horse riding lessons are safe.

I did find a website for a riding lessons service that talks a whole lot about the safety of the lessons and how they train them to work with children. I showed it to my wife and that made her feel a little better. I think I can convince her by our daughter’s birthday.

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Did you get that “fairy tale horse” email? It is the one that claims to help your horse have luxurious manes and tails. I got the email last week and thought it sounded a bit odd. I did some investigating into it.

As it turns out, it is a series of ebooks that the author, Beth Moore (if that is her real name) is promoting through clickbank. Currently this little scam is raking in $57 a sale to Beth. From what I was able to find out, the only advice she gives in her books for a long mane and tail is not to brush it.

The scam does not end there. It seems that her website (also called a “push page” in the industry) is full of photos of horses that she has grabbed off of the internet. None of those horses are hers, the owners never heard of her or use any of her techniques to grow long manes and tails. In fact several owners of the horses are trying to get the photos off of her website.

Now if you Google the phone number listed at the bottom of the web page (404-419-7920) be prepared to spend the next 30 minutes wading through what seems to be countless other products this person is selling, including a cure for tight foreskin…I assume on men.

If you have a horse that is on her website just contact Clickbank and they will help you out. They don’t like fraud either and will do what they can to put a stop to it.

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Most animals will bite you if they feel threatened or use as a last resort to protect themselves. Unfortunately there are also animals that use the threat of biting to control other animals and humans, horses are one of them.

Horses will bite other horses to show who is in charge in a herd situation. They will also think that their human handler should be treated the same way as another horse unless they have been properly trained. While a horse bite on a horse is not that noticeable a horse bite on a human is very nasty. Click here for a very graphic photo of a horse bite on a human. You have to scroll down a bit on the page but the photo looks like the horse got a good hold of the person. The same website is selling a book on how to re-train biting horses.

I had a good friend once who was boarding her horse at the same place I was. Her horse was laid up for an injury so she leased this huge gelding named “Boogie.” While getting him out of his pen one day, Boogie bit her in the neck. She has scars of the incident. Needless to say that Boogie was not leased by her any longer. It was the only time that Boogie did anything like that and he ended up being sold a few years later to someone who just loved him to death.

Yes, horses can and do bite, but so do cats and dogs. You just have to be aware of it and know those training techniques.

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