Horse Whisperer Hogwash!
- Clare Long
- Jan 1, 2023
- 1 min read
Caution! Warning! Strong Opinion!
From my Archives 2014
"...In addition, I boycotted "the horse whisperer".
I boycotted the book and the movie.
I do not believe in anything that they stood for.
To me it was just more horse abuse.
The real Horse Whisperers are the ones that were around long before the term was coined.
They are the true trainers of the world, those who know how to work with horses; in a method that speaks to the health and happiness of the horse.
(From my Archives 2014)
"I especially dislike the man that the horse whisperer book/movie, was based on.
(I boycotted that whole thing, by the way. I refused the read the book, or to watch the movie. Still haven't, never will. I refuse to support any abuse of horses. Sitting on a horse's head to prove your dominance over them? Horrific and revolting!).
I watched one of that man's clinics, many years ago, and walked out in disgust.
Talk about abusive.
The horse he was supposedly "Training" was absolutely terrified, fighting back with all his will, trying desperately to get away from this human predator/attacker.
Poor thing.
The horse was so frantic that I thought he was going to kill himself.
I was horrified, and couldn't believe that people would support such a man, with such an abusive, violent approach.
10 minutes of viewing this awfulness, I walked out.
