The Animals

Lately, I have been thinking about animal cruelty. Videos from PETA running through my mind about chicken nuggets and veal. Thankfully, I am vegetarian and I don't feel the need to shove these nuggets of chicken carcasses into my stomach, but it's still hard to see these videos of how they are made, and just how animals are treated in general.
When you look into an animal's eyes, you can tell that they love you unconditionally. No matter how poor you are, or what you look like. But people still beat them just because they have their own problems. A dog didn't do anything, and neither did a cat or horse, or any other animal for that matter. If you start beating a harmless creature, you should know that there is something wrong with you.

I know a horse who was abused. He was left in his stall for nearly two years, and when people found him, there was three feet of crap that he was living in. When the horse, Jadir, was brought to the barn where I ride, he spent stall time walking in circles around the stall, creating a perfect circle that reappeared everyday, even if new shavings were put over it. And when he was being led into the pasture, he ran into it because he just doesn't know what to do with himself. People did this to Jadir, a sweet, thirteen hand brown pony with a thick, soft coat. People are the reason that he couldn't be ridden, because he didn't know what to do. People are the reason that when he was first brought out of his prison, he fell because he didn't more around, except for his stall.
Jadir is gone now, he moved to an animal rescue after at least eight years at the barn I go to. His owners were an older couple, and it was a hard choice for them to give him up. Unlike others, who just get rid of animals like they are any object. That is the thing that makes me angry. Animals are the center of my life, especially horses, and when I look at Carbon Copy, I know that if anyone tried to hurt him, I am prepared to hurt them back.