Dressage trainer killed

[bauhaus]

[QUOTE=Gloria;8240073]
Poetic justice. I won’t shed a tear for her.

OK. I will say it: I’m going to toast to that horse.[/QUOTE]

I keep thinking that everyone who is berating you for this hasn’t watched the video or read the other threads from when she was convicted of abuse and then turned up in Denmark continuing the abuse. It’s human to feel relief when the abuser can no longer hurt animals anymore.

Here’s a quote from another thread (before she died, when she was caught abusing again after a previous conviction) which I think sums up this feeling that so many people experience:

@mortebella;3563949

You know, this speaks to so much of horse nature, and mankind’s whole history with the horse…their whole evolution, and ours. We’re the predator, they’re the prey. And they really do understand that they’re stronger than us. They’re not stupid. They’re just not wired like another predator. You could not whip a cat or dog like that, if they were that giant size (or even if they weren’t.) The horse is resisting, he’s just not directing toward his tormentor. There is a famous story about Friedrich Nietzsche, that the point when he snapped (mentally) and had to be taken off to an asylum was when he witnessed a cart horse being beaten to death in the street. I think the actual truth is, it didn’t all happen right then, but over a period of days he became more and more obsessed with the idea that the horse, by refusing to defend itself with its superior strength, had the moral high ground over all humanity (in that move the horse prefigured Gandhi’s own non-violent revolution!), which humanity (perforce including Nietzsche’s own) then became repugnant to him, and presto, nervous breakdown. My point is, if this incident bugs the sh!t out of you, you’re in really good company.

[Gloria]

Bauhaus, thank you. That is a very sad quote from Mortebella. Unfortunately I know exactly what Friedrich Nietzsche felt. You feel your heart being ripped out. I believe based on some posts that I’m not alone.

It is very difficult for some people to understand what is going on here, until they have stared up to the eyes of evils, and known EXACTLY what the horses were feeling. These people have the good fortune of living a blessed live, and can easily believe what this woman did was just “temporary”. A bad case of headache.

These people blissfully believe they have compassion when what they have is innocence.

They misjudge the degree of depravity some human beings do possess. They don’t understand this woman will never stop. She was having too much fun doing it.

They can see the video tape, see the whipping. I believe they are bothered, if they have bothered to watch it - any normal human beings would be bothered. But they will never fully understand what they are witnessing - not until the day they stare up to the eyes of the devils themselves. I hope they never understand it. And that is why they are so quick to accuse some of us for lacking “compassion” for this woman - and why the “relief”.

The irony is, cruel and brusque they accuse us, the compassion we have for the innocent is something they will never comprehend.

[Halfling]

The video is no longer available

[TallWarmbloodRider]

are there videos of her riding? Her groundwork is absolutely sickening, can’t imagine what kind of horrid rider she is in the saddle

[Jo-Jo]

She did not die while working with the horse, she died while beating it. So, she sentenced herself to death. As to whether or not she deserved it, I will leave that to God.

[Jo-Jo]

I think it is on both YouTube and Facebook.

[Foxtrot_s]

Publicly calling out an animal abuser is a good thing - not rejoicing in their death.

This is an old old incident, and eventually, with modern thinking and laws, we hope these kinds of people will not be working with animals.

It is a fact, that animal abusers are abusers in other aspects of their lives…
wives, children, pets, etc. Often they are charming to outsiders.

[Manni01]

Sorry to comment again in this thread but IMO the owner is the guilty person in this case :(. Who gives a horse to somebody already convicted for animal cruelty into training??