>----- Original Message -----
From: "Wally" <wallamara@hotmail.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: PREGNANT HORSE PEE?????????EKKKKKK
> Give me a break!
>
> I don't care what it's made of at the moment.........
>
> if it helps me I'll take it!....I may not DRINK the stuff, but hey in
> it's processed form (tablet, gel..) I'll take it thanks all the same! I
> have ENOUGH to contend with at the moment.
>
> Jo
>
> At Fri, 1 Jun 2001, GSOS/HMC wrote:
> >
> > Not only is it horse pee...but do you know how they collect this and
what happens to those cute, sweet, adorable little babies after they are
born? There are many websites educating folks about this. There is one
that is particularly impacting. The rescue in my area has a gorgeous cream
draft...she was a PMU foal out of Canada. Her name is Hope. One of the
most stunning horses I've ever seen and sweet too. She and a large group of
foals were brought into the USA and delivered to adopters. There are
organized adoption runs several times per year. Unfortunately, not all the
foals are this lucky.
> >
> >It's a sad thing when a foal is orphaned...I counsel folks with
orphans...but sadder still when a foal is intentionally ripped from it's
mom. I've raised some myself; orphans, not the PMU foals.
> >
> >Visualize this; It's night time, pitch dark and black outside. The
coyotes are howling and this howling is slowly getting louder as the coyotes
approach the property. The crickets, owls, dogs, and other animals making
their nightly noises. You are a foal. Alone in the world. Instinctually
you know you need a protector. You can't fend for yourself. You have a
babies body, mind, soul, and spirit. You need warmth, comfort, protection,
safety. You are a lucky little foal because a nice person rescued you from
the slaughter man and brought you to their house. Your human family plays
with you all day, nurtures you, loves on you, feeds you buckets of soothing
warm milk. About 7:00 at night you begin feeling nervous...you've just had
your last comforting bucket of warm milk...maybe you've been taken into the
barn and locked up for safety, maybe you are left outside in your stall,
maybe you even have the company of a goat, sheep, pig, or another horse....
The noises getti!
> ng louder
> > are frightening you more and more...your instincts tell you to find mama
and seek the comfort and warmth of her udder...take a few comforting slurps
of warm milk...nuzzle with her to abate your fear...There is no mama for
you...it's you and the darkeness and a handful of other animals who butt you
away from them. In response to your fear, you develop habits as a means of
self-soothing...you chew on the wood rail, you chew the hair on the other
horse's tail, you sway your head back and forth like an elephant at the zoo,
you eat, and eat and eat,....or maybe you have no hay at night, you whinny
and cry...or maybe fear prevents this instinctually knowing that the
predators will pinpoint your location...I could give you countless
scenarios...you are chastised gently by your adopters...it's not your
fault...you are an infant. You need your mom's comfort. If you can't
satisy your needs, this leads to frustration which can lead to all sorts of
behaviors...you know the story. It!
> can be d
> >angerous for the owners depending upon the habits the foal relies on for
self soothing.
> >
> >Anyway, just thought I'd put a plug in for the PMU foals who need us.
They are really very sweet. My heart goes out to every one of them. There
are also horses bred here in our country on a large scale, just for their
milk...their foals are taken away at birth and the mare is sent off to nurse
an expensive horse; for instance a thoroughbred destined for a racing
career. I have the numbers somewhere. These foals can have a real rough
start if they survive and if they are offered up for adoption...There are
many physical and psychological as well as social problems for these little
guys.
> >
> >There have always been alternatives to premarin. Recently one of the
drug companies came out with a replacement that I believe is based on
vegetable products. This is from a pharmaceutical company and requires a
script. There are also product in the health food stores as well. I've
used several of them. They even have a substitute for cycrin=progesterone.
>
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> You will never never know.......if you don't give it a go :)
>