Hi, Ian. I found your post about tethering horses interesting. I didn't know people did that. It seems to me that a tethered horse might be in danger from a pack of dogs.

I used to work for an injury lawyer. One day we got a phone call from a man whose little daughter had been kicked to death by a horse. Clearly neither the daughter nor the mother knew how to act around a horse.

I don't have a horse, but one day I read a book by a horse owner who said that there is no scientific justification for horse shoes, and that they are bad for the horses, because they prevent the hoof from spreading when the horse puts weight on it. He also said that a horse should not be kept in stall, ever, because it is a horse's instinct to move freely about. What do you think of those two things?

He said that wild horses on open land live years longer than tame horses. Makes ya think, doesn't it?