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January 2008 • VOLUME 29 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
The article about bitless bridles using Dr Cook's x ray has
been published in BD magazine under the heading, "Are we causing
unnecessary pain? (I was sent a note by a reader suggesting that the heading was the editor's - I am not sure that I like it
too much as there is the implication that it is OK to cause "necessary
pain"!
I responded that I had to say that, that was very observant of you re the title. And the
more I think about it, the more I think you are probably right. Where is a person’s
mindset when we choose the words unnecessary pain versus just pain? Have we as
horse people just come to accept that pain is a part of riding and our right?
Have we at some level just come to accept that it is our sovereign right to cause the horse pain?
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