Owner Sues Mandella and Hughes Over Heel Nerving

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Originally Posted by Honu

This is very touchy subject for me and I can tell you that I can see where people who do not understand or have knowledge of this procedure are upset.
From my stand point knowing why it was done and having been personally involved with this horse including galloping and working him I can tell you this was not an inhumane or unkind thing.
There are alot of procedeures done to horses that are perfectly humane and legal that are not even reported such as myectomys , chip surguries , hardware put in or taken out and so on. These things, if you were to see some of the ways they are performed you would most likely be grossed out and think that some surguries where the horses throats are left with a gaping draining hole for weeks would be inhumane.
I happen to also feel that I work with one of the best all around hands on horseman ever and I know that he nor the people he trains for would ever knowingly put an animal or human at risk .

I was hoping you would reply to this. Thank you for your thoughts
on this article. My thoughts on Mandella are still the same. I always
thought highly of him. His horses always look like a picture of health.