Kindness to horses, or outright murder?

Kindness to horses, or outright murder?

Let's call a spade a spade.

People often say, "Poor thing; kinder to put it to sleep." This of course, is often said about horses and not about people. (I'm also a bit disturbed about horses being called "it.")

There seems to be so much concern with the public in general about putting injured or ill horses to sleep, but very little on the other hand about saving their lives.

Do these people who are so very quick to suggest that old/sick/injured horses should be put to sleep advocate the putting of themselves or their relatives to sleep if they are aged, injured, or wounded? I don't think so.

Why then, are they so quick to want horses dispatched to the great hereafter?

Saying it's on humanitarian grounds just doesn't wash - if so, they would be quick to get rid of their great-grandmother or anyone in the hospital injury ward.

This pretense at a kind attitude is in fact a blatant disregard for horses' lives.

If a chair is broken, someone throws it out.

If a human is sick or injured, the same person wants to help them.

If a horse is sick or injured, the same person wants to put them to sleep, and worse still, under the guise of being kind.

It is not kindness; it is an utter lack of regard for the horse and a quick fix to a problem.

Below are two rescued horses, Sera rehabbed by me and Annie rehabbed by Linda Broadbent. These were bad cases with multiple and serious physical issues, but both now are fine.

Sera: Before and After
(Note that the standing photo is after 5 days on heavy painkillers prior to which she was unable to stand and she had been down for 3 weeks - she was unable to be removed from person's property until the 5th day on medication. Below is pick up from the property.)

Annie Before and After

My horses do NOTHING

The other day someone asked me what I did with my horses.
I replied, "Nothing" and immediately felt guilty.
Yet why would I feel guilty? I suppose the reason is that the horse industry makes us feel that we should be doing "something" with horses, as if not, the horses are "going to waste."
The other day, a horse rescuer, Chris Ahearn, made the wise comment that a horse is not going to say, "Oh bummer. I wish I was in the 7th race today at Randwick," or "I wish I'd had 3 foals by now, with my valuable, rare bloodlines!"
MY HORSES ARE MY PETS.
I'm not ashamed to say it. They have forever homes with me. They are members of my family.
When I was a child, my riding instructor said to me, "Horses are not pets; they are livestock."
Unfortunately, many horse owners share his view. 
How many dog owners would happily sell on their dog? 
How many cat owners would happily give away the family cat? 
Yet why do many people so freely sell on their horses when they are old or injured?
I expect the reason is that horses are considered to be livestock rather than much-loved family pets, or even members of the family.
The other day, three elderly Standardbreds were rescued from the knackery. One soon passed away, but at least had received much love and attention in his last few days. One of these horses had won his owners a large sum of money, but that was not enough to secure him a happy retirement. Another of the horses was a mare who had been imported from New Zealand. Someone at one point thought enough of her to import her, but had not bothered to give her a retirement. This is just one example among hundreds of  thousands. The racing industry on the whole discards horses as if discarding an old pair of shoes. It is not only the racing industry - this can be found in all horse disciplines.
So don't feel bad if you are doing nothing with your horses! Feel okay that they are "going to waste" and "just" being happy members of the family!

Sera - doing nothing.

Leto - doing nothing

Gallifrey and Blondie - doing nothing

THE COMPLETE BOOKS OF ENOCH price slashed!

Are you looking for a translation of ALL THREE books of Enoch?
Now is a good time, as Amazon has just slashed the price on the paperback Complete Books of Enoch to $14.93 (was $21.95!!)
GET IT HERE!

 

This is NOT A PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION. This is a NEW (2010) easy-to-read translation by ancient languages scholar Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations of Enoch NOR IS IT A REWORDED PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSION of Enoch. Great advances which have been made in ancient word meaning in the last twenty years were unknown to the translators of the public domains of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the current trend for non-translators to reproduce public domain versions, both as is and slightly reworded, as a commercial venture, be aware that such public domain versions do not take advantage of recent scholarship in word meaning or any corrections in translation.

This new translation by Dr. A. Nyland contains all three Enochian books: 1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch) 2 Enoch (The Slavonic Book of Enoch, The Secrets of Enoch). This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek. 3 Enoch (The Hebrew Book of Enoch)

Note that this is Dr. Nyland's translation and NOT a public domain work.

1 Enoch tells of the Watchers, a class of angel, who taught humans weapons, spell potions, root cuttings, astrology, astronomy, and alchemies. The Watchers also slept with human women and produced the Nephilim. For this, they were imprisoned and cast into Tartarus. This is also mentioned in the New Testament.

In 2 Enoch, two angels take Enoch through the 7 heavens. This volume contains the extended version of 2 Enoch, The Exaltation of Melchizedek.

In 3 Enoch, Enoch ascends to heaven and is transformed into the angel Metatron. This is about the Merkabah and is of interest to Kabbalists. People interested in Theosophy and Rosicrucianism will find this book invaluable. There are copious background notes and cross references to Bible verses. This book is an easy to read translation with cross references and notes. 

Here is part of a 5 star review by Amazon Top 1,000 Reviewer Relytia:

 "The book is very unbiased and objective, even in the additional "commentary" parts that are scattered numerously throughout the book. Thankfully, Dr. Nyland does not fall trap to the grating, presumptuous mistake that most religiously oriented supplementary book authors do; that mistake being injecting his/her own ideas into the work and treating that as if their own conjecture and speculation is God's inspired word as well (a very arrogant, annoying practice, if you ask me). Rather, the author takes a very scholarly approach by merely presenting the material untouched, and then by giving context to certain terms that appear in the writings themselves. Certain names and terms may be unfamiliar to most (there were many terms I really had no idea about), so there will be a box that informatively tells you what that term meant to people of the time it was written, and may even show you some scriptures that specifically refer to that very same subject."

 

Why can't I be a vegan?

You know, it gets pretty tiring when I constantly, incessantly, have to explain to people over and over and over again why I'm a vegan. 

I don't ask people why they are carnivores. I don't give lectures on health or lectures on eating animals who have been horribly murdered in terror at slaughter houses, or lectures on eating eggs from battery hens. I mind my own business, so people, next time you encounter a vegetarian or vegan, please resist the urge to comment on their eating choices.

People pushing pies and cream cakes in their mouths express fears for my health, worrying that I'm eating "that sort of food."

People with nutritionally-based health problems say to me, "That food can't be good for you!"

Then there are the people who ask, "What about protein?" Ok, we all know that plants don't have protein, right? Wrong!

It's all oh-so-tiring.

I don't comment on the eating habits of other people, so why do they feel free to comment on mine?

Also restaurants think they are so good for having one vegetarian option on the menu. That means that vegetarians are forced to eat that; there is no choice. How would all you non-vegetarians like it if you went to a restaurant and there was no option but one?

I don't try to convert non-vegans, so please don't try to convert me, and please resist the urge to comment on my eating habits. How would you like it if people questioned you every time you tried to eat or make comments about it? I just want to eat in peace.

Ok, now here is my recipe for vegan fake chocolate mousse.

Vegan Non-Soy Chocolate Mousse.

Assemble: organic raw cacao powder - 1 heaped dessertspoon, plus some oat milk, and a lot of baby spinach, and some pea based isolate protein powder.

How much I hear you ask? I am a bad cook, so I have no idea. I just stick them all in. You can use a LOT of baby spinach - you will not be able to taste it, and that makes it thick.

Blend. Don't put too much oat milk in at first or it will be too thin, and you can use a LOT more baby spinach than you will think.

This makes a delicious chocolate mousse.

Here is vegan non-soy fake ice cream. (I am soy intolerant.)

Vegan Non-Soy Ice Cream.

1 can of lite coconut cream (make sure it's the coconut cream, not the coconut milk.)

Put it in a blender with 1 dessertspoon organic raw cacao powder - you can add a dessertspoon of sugar if you like.

Blend it. Freeze it.

Eat it before it's frozen too solid, or you will have to thaw it a little to eat it. It is DELICIOUS!!!

The coconut taste is not obvious in the lite coconut cream but is obvious in the coconut cream. If you use coconut milk, it will be icy, not like ice cream.

New 99c horse rescue book!

My new 99c horse book is now live on Kindle! How to Care For a Rescue Horse.

Rescue horses have different needs. Some may be injured, or have wounds, while others may "only" be skinny. Whatever their circumstances, rescue horses need worming and feed, and these two very things, if not carried out correctly, may harm or even kill the horse. This concise and to the point how-to book also takes the reader through several pictorial case histories.

Perseverance Mauser - first barefoot SA horse to go to World Champs!

South African Arabian horse Perseverance Mauser went through Kikkuli training and along with Laura Seegers has been selected for the South Africa team for the Endurance  World Champs in Great Britain 2012. He has always been barefoot and is a wonderful ambassador for barefoot endurance. The photo taken in Oct 2011 at Schanskraal 160 CEI is with Francois Seegers - Mauser won the heavyweight category 100 miler in 10 hours 09 minutes. Mauser does not wear boots. In his three years endurance career, Mauser has entered 20 endurance rides, and successfully completed 19. A 95% success rate. He has 1800km on his  logbook. A Kikkuli success story! Read more about Mauser's success here!
Find out more about the Kikkuli Method of horse training here!

Dirty Business in Ancient Books.

There has been a so-called "get rich scheme" around for some time of getting a public domain book which by the way is freely available on the net, printing it and selling it as a paperback - or just converting it to an ebook and selling it. They have flooded the market now.

However, one or two people take this further in getting such a book, an old English translation of an ancient text, changing the instances of "thou" to "you" and pretending it is their very own translation of the ancient text. Never mind that these people have no language other than English, have never attended an accredited let alone prestigious university or gained even an undergraduate degree (unless you count an alleged "degree" from a pay-for-it degree mill or an unaccredited college with no ancient language training of course), have of course never been on Faculty anywhere and have of course never been published in an academic journal.

When these books hit Amazon, the unsuspecting readers give the book a glowing review, not realising it is a public domain translation that they could have bought for free on the net.

Now, as I am an actual translator with books in opposition to this, it irks me, but I have had a "grin it and bear it" attitude. I mean, what could I do?

Well apparently my books irked one of these book producers. I shall call him the Fake Translator. Under a fake Amazon account (let us call that Reviewer D), he has given all his books glowing 5 star reviews for many years now, and under another account (let us call that Reviewer A), has given some of his books 5 star reviews, also for many years.

However, when my Angels, Archangels and Angel Categories: What the Ancients Said book came out, the Fake Translator's Reviewer A account gave it a scathing Amazon review, saying that it has 40 pages of large font, and that I had got my information from the net. To the contrary, it has 140 pages of 12 point Times New Roman font, is fully referenced and has original material.

Reviewer A gives the Fake Translator's thinly disguised public domain books glowing reviews and says what a wonderful translator he is. The Fake Translator even alleges on his books that these are his own translations. Come on - these are not modern languages, these are difficult ancient languages!

The Fake Translator has put out another book with his middle name as a pseudonym, and surprise, surprise, the Fake Translator's Reviewer A and Reviewer B accounts have given it glowing Amazon reviews.

Fake ancient translations - a dirty business.

He is fooling the unsuspecting public who are unaware that his books are public domain books with the old English changed to more modern English. They can get these books for free on the net. Further, scholarship has changed greatly since these old books came out.