Horse Fights and Celebrations?
People watch a horse fight during a festival in Rongshui Miao Ethnic Group Autonomous County, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on November 26, 2005. The festival was also a show for local agricultural products.
The festivities also include beating drums, dancing to the music of a lusheng (a wind instrument), horse racing and bull-fighting. In an earlier post, I wrote about the adoption of the Przewalski horse by the Xinjiang Wild Animal Protection Association in China.
What gives?
And I thought that living in New Mexico, one of the two states in the United States where cock fighting is allowed, was pretty bad.
More about horse fighting from the Fund4Horses―
"In a horse fighting match, two stallions are made to fight for the prize of mating a mare in heat. Before the match begins, trainers allow the stallions to sniff the mare, putting them in a fighting mood. Then the clash begins, and both stallions fight and inflict wounds on each other until one of them runs away and refuses to join the battle. The winner then goes for another series of rounds until a champion for the whole tournament is declared."
"Aside from the physical pain and wounds that the stallions get, the mares are also subjected to animal cruelty, since they are injected with hormones everyday to stay in heat for a few days.
Horses are often ill-matched which results in extensive injuries to the weaker opponent. (The presence of) mares during the fight causes the males to go wild and attack with even greater intensity, which habitually result in gruesome injuries and even death."
What a way to celebrate.
Resources: International Fund for Horses
Photo Credits: Horse Photo 1;Horse Photo 2
Comments
That is just animal cruelty! Do those people even care about the horses. Those poor horses are suffering.
Posted by: Amanda | January 2, 2008 1:19 AM
This is disgusting and it should be band for life.What do these sick people get out of watching buitifal animals distroy each other.The amount of love they give gets chucked straight back at them.Give theses animals a chance if you cant look after them dont have them give them to someone who cares.Natalie Coleshill,13
Posted by: natalie | May 19, 2008 7:25 AM