"Your website is a valuable tool to spread the word"

I have just spent time looking at all the photos, some will stay in my mind for a long time. I lived in Egypt for 6 years, the first time I saw an Arab Bit I was shocked. If you apply the slightest pressure a razor sharp steel point stabs the horse in the roof of their mouth. Everybody used this bit, to make the horses perform piaffe, I was completely ignorant as to the extend that people were prepared to use such horrific pieces of equipment in order to achieve the desired results. I saw horses be exercised until they were bleeding from their noses, some died in the process. Since coming back to England I repeatedly see owners ending up using pieces of tack that force their horses mouths shut, nobody ever questions this. When will people realise that it is pointless to treat the symtoms, it is the cause of the undesired behaviour that needs to be addressed. Please make a visit to England, you would have a lot of support here, although if I had horses like yours I do not think I could ever tear myself away from them.

Your website is a valuable tool to spread the word!

Best regards

Lesley Williams (Once a student of Parelli – but no longer as I know what damage this can do)

March 09, 2007

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