Dehumanization of the Tennessee Walking show horse

DEHUMANIZATION – An act or process of undermining or taking away human qualities or human personalities; reducing a human to a single negative characteristic. It’s a mental trick, a disturbingly successful mental trick, that is designed to turn normal and good people into social dominants or superiors. Dehumanizing someone or group can start a cycle […]

A LITTLE TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE HISTORY

Bald Stockings was foaled in 1837 and is the first horse on record to have performed the classic running walk that is now known as a signature gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Tennessee Walking Horse biographer, Ben Green, notes that other horses came along to demonstrate the running walk before the great war (Civil […]

The Scar Rule, Federal Regulation 9 CFR 11.3

The scar rule applies to all horses born on or after October 1, 1975. Horses that do not meet the scar rule criteria are considered to be “sore”. That criteria is: (a) The anterior and anterior lateral surfaces of the fore pasterns must be free of bilateral granulomas, other bilateral pathological evidence of inflammation and […]

About this site and the Tennessee Walking Horse

This is my first attempt at a blog.  I am certainly not as hip with social media as today’s world demands.  I prefer the quiet peacefulness of the country to the social media world.  I do believe it is very important to provide the social media world with some important facts about the Tennessee Walking […]