In all other forms of animal training there is a distinction between teaching and forcing. Compliance and resignation are two very different things, and are visually obvious. It is why an equine judge is able to look at 15 horses doing the same thing, and visually see which one is performing as the standard dictates. It is of no consequence that trainer A is your drinking buddy. The public sees the same thing the judge sees. In the equine world the "public" is also a competitor. I suggest if the public had been educated the Trainers would have been allowed to continue, and the less qualified would have been selling snow cones to help pay them, and the profession would be more respected today.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
What do I mean by "resigned?"
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Wade G. Burck
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What I want to know is did any of you guys watch the NBC Circus last night and what did you think? And who the heck were those judges? I nominated Wade for the job, but I guess you just were not PC enough for them Darlin...LOL...
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So now you want the show owners kids or nephews, or daughter inlaws brother all running the floss joint. There you go, putting butchers out of business across America.
One thing that has always bothered me. A private individual has to come up with a minimal amount (1000 hours for most) of experience to obtain a USDA license to exhibit an animal. However this is waived in the instance that the permit is being issued to a corporation (i.e. for show owned animals) under the guise that they will hire someone with the proper amount of experience to handle said animals. Which generally only happens if someone with the proper amount of experience has recently been red-lighted mid season, and will work for the $500.00 a week they intended on paying their nephew or any other goof to do the job. This will generally only last until the person with experience pipes up about the bad conditions of something, then he is red-lighted again, and animals go back to son-inlaw by default, until some one else comes along that will do it closer to rite, for less money.
Casey,
Very good. You are starting to address what may have happened to the profession, instead of staying with the "pity party" of animal rights, and other forms of entertainment. As odd as it may seem, it is possible to shoot yourself in the foot.
What if that issue would have been discussed as vehemently 50 years ago, along with AR and more sophisticated entertainment. We will never know how much further ahead we would now be.
Wade
Margaret,
I only watched the first "act". When I realized that one judge was a former Monte Carlo judge, qualified to judge nonsense obviously, one was a former gymnast, qualified to judge nothing circus, and one was, well,it was obvious what he was, I flipped to RFD TV and watched them judge various beef cattle breeds. Much more educational, insightful, beneficial and valid then a "poormans Riviera roundup." To answer your question, no I didn't watch it. I choose not to make light of my profession.
Wade
Casey,
Not just family members, but also the "cute and charming" members of the profession. Yes, they can compete with the butchers or other acts available. Just not animals which have the capacity to suffer in a multitude of ways at the hand's of the unqualified.
Wade
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