On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 10:22:08 AM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-02-27 07:55, sms wrote:
On 2/27/2018 1:11 AM, Ned Mantei wrote:
On 26-02-18 21:34, Joerg wrote:
My experience is the opposite. Horses leave their poop all over but
that ain't so bad.


I agree. Horse droppings dry quickly, leaving only something like hay
fragments on the ground.

I saw no horses all day on Saturday, but lots of nice moist horse
droppings. Maybe it's the fog that comes in at the coast that keeps
things messy.

In any case, public parks should be for self-powered activities.
Equestrians can ride on private land and mess that up as much as they want.


Horses with riders on them were here well before any vehicles, back in
the days when only Native Americans roamed the West. We shall not take
their rights away just because it is now perceived as inconvenient.

Horses were introduced by the Spaniards. Prehistoric horses were long gone and never ridden by native peoples. The Clovis hunted and ate prehistoric horses, which is the natural order of things. We should return to the natural order, hunting and eating horses. Mmmmmmmmm. Horse. More cheese and onions, please! They're a vector and a pest in large parts of the west. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/o...st-horses.html

I don't see any place for horses on popular public forest trails or unleashed dogs -- one of which nearly tackled my wife, who is not as robust as she once was. There are far, far too many dogs in the world. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a7878086.html It used to be that people had a dog. Now they have four. There is this bizarre, sappy view of pets as a mandate. http://www..leoketel.com/wp-content/..._Billboard.jpg I see these billboards all the time. WTF? My soulmate is a cat?

-- Jay Beattie.