You know what soring is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes? No? Hard to tell through that bit. It really does make you drool, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soring. Not like an angel. S O R I N G. Sounds like it hurts, doesn\u2019t it? You might be right. But pain is just another thing on TV until it happens to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a horse girl, I thought you might care a little more about, I dunno. This thing we love. But you were always the stuck up equestrian. Me, the acne disaster in glasses, guess I had more time for reading. Watching. Planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Just consider this another one of our study sessions. You know, I was so happy when you asked me to tutor you. You weren\u2019t using me, right? We\u2019re friends, right? More than friends. Horse girls. Horse friends. And horse friends horsehelp each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So listen up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soring is one of many cruel things people do to horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not even like what they do to pigs and sheep. At least there\u2019s some kind of twisted utility <\/em>in that. You know, like that one teacher used to say. Utility<\/em>. Very clean word. Can I use the utilities<\/em>? Definitely not a word that suggests uh screams and choking on aerosolized feces. Guess that\u2019s the point. It\u2019s like these hooves strapped to your feet, smoothing those ugly, wiggling toes into a pretty black shape, nice and pure and simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I don\u2019t think a word like person. Human. Or anything like that. Is what you deserve to be called.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No, there\u2019s no utility. There\u2019s infinite ways to find entertainment and community in this world, and some people choose to be the crowds watching these shows, or the clerks, accountants, vendors, vets, trainers, riders\u2014thousands of people decided their idea of fun is watching a horse get tortured for the utility<\/em> of uh, raising its hooves really high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I look at those crowds of men, women, and children. A whole ecosystem with big smiles on their face at the sight of a horse being tortured. And I think: you’re not even human! You’re demons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s perverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, that\u2019s the machine. Better start running. Around and around in a circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You feel it now, on your heels. The sharp spike punishing any attempt to rest. But the balls of your feet hurt too. Your hooves are packed full of nails. That\u2019s why you lift them real nice and high, just for a second of relief\u2014oh no, the other hoof is hurting! Better lift that! Down goes the first hoof\u2014and there you go again. A perpetual motion machine. Clopping around this circle in mindless pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Look at the blood welling through your hooves, oozing from the crushed footmeat, the sharp impact of each clop. Around and around. Your foot blood is making a pattern on the ground. Starting to smear. How beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your hooves crash down and speckle my glasses with red droplets. Why can’t I stop smiling? Now you understand what horses feel. And I understand what you feel! You love watching a big, beautiful beast prancing for your amusement, right? Shaking off droplets of sweat and blood with huge quivering pupils, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Look at you. Literally frothing at the bit. Foam dribbling onto those garish breasts, not that I\u2019m looking. Does it hurt for them to bounce unsupported like that? I wouldn\u2019t know. You called me flat. I guess I am. But even my underdeveloped things ache when I run down the basement steps to our private little stable. So nature\u2019s gifts <\/em>probably feel like they\u2019re wrenching off your chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re sweating so hard I can\u2019t tell if you\u2019re crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh yeah. It burns back there, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gingering. That\u2019s the other thing. They put some raw ginger or caustic chemical up the horse\u2019s rectum. I tried a little ginger and it was honestly wasn\u2019t that bad. Definitely not educational<\/em>. Maybe they had some crazy medieval dino-ginger back then, but whatever the case, those sad little roots from the supermarket weren\u2019t cutting it. So I mixed household chemicals with glue until it started to sizzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s supposed to make you go faster. It better. If you slow down, the nails will sink in. The only way to last is to keep up the momentum. Like skipping a stone. Or the strap around your neck will get tighter. And you\u2019ll have less air to spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d like to think I can educate you on the issues. That we could have a big laugh as I bandage your hooves by the fire. One horse girl to another. But I need to know you really understand how cruel and inhumane we treat some of the most beautiful living creatures on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So jerk those pretty knees high and alternate your hooves. If the nails dig too hard into the balls of your feet, or the spikes at your heels stab too deep\u2014you could get serious nerve damage. Twist your ankle. Even break a leg. And then it\u2019s the glue factory for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t worry. It\u2019s just what they do to horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know what soring is? Yes? No? Hard to tell through that bit. It really does make you drool, huh? Soring. Not like an angel. S O R I N G. Sounds like it hurts, doesn\u2019t it? You might be right. 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