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To: average joe who wrote (91162)	12/12/2004 5:11:38 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Did you actually read the article I cited in my post? Europeans are ahead of the United States in passing all kinds of laws against animal cruelty, including the practices of dog ear cropping and docking tails. The idea is not to do it at all, not just provide pain medication. The fact that it is done without pain medication is just a sign of how little compassion we have for animals in some instances, and how little we even think about what we do to them because "it's always been done that way." I don't believe Europeans are involved in the practice of tranquilizing gay people, but their societies are busy passing laws allowing gay marriages and civil unions, as ours rushes backwards, narrowmindedly, as fast as can be. When you are breaking colts you are not actually chopping essential bits off of it. I personally have not heard of medicating horses to tranquilize them while doing that, but I am no horse expert. If the goal is to be humane to the horse, and it isn't dangerous re overdoses or making the horse so relaxed it trips and breaks something and has to be destroyed, I suppose it is a nice thing to do.