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Norman in De Quarter schreef:

However, you have to be very aware from a person’s background an how they were thought to handle and work with animals. I will give you an example. I was born and grew up on a ranch. Shooting, trapping rabbits, foxes, some birds, was a past time as well as a sport. Pigs were slaughtered and eaten, cows or other animals that got terminally sick were shot. Dogs who abused cattle or sheep got shot on the spot. We rode our horses long hours in good and bad weather and other horses were also used for hard work on the ranch from dawn till dusk. Is this cruel to animals? You got to remember one’s culture and how one is taught to behave and use animals. The culture in America is much different than in Holland or Belgium. My wife is a city girl and sometimes she finds that I am hard on our horses but in my eyes I am just being normal and doing the things, which I did growing up on the land. I also have noticed that most people from the city who are around horses tend to treat them different than county folk. Thus you got to be aware of these culture differences when you judge people, but this does not mean that you should accept everything. Cruelty to animals should not be tolerated by anyone but just be careful on where you draw the line an what you see as cruelty.