A little while ago, we wrote an article called Protecting The Wild Horse – A Symbol Of Our American Heritage. Whether you read that article or have simply tuned in to recent newscasts, you’ve probably heard about the plight of the American Mustang and the roundups that are being done by the Bureau Of Land Management (BLM) in the name of “saving these poor, starving, dehydrated creatures”.
Reality, however, proves time and time again that the overwhelming majority of these horses are healthy and strong on the range, and it’s only AFTER they are run ragged by low flying helicopters and herded into small pens where they are often held for years, that they become sick and dehydrated and sometimes die.
What exactly is integrity? According to Wikipedia, one way to tell if someone has integrity is to see if “they behave according to the values, beliefs and principles they claim to hold.”
It’s short and sweet, but it’s not simple. That’s a tall order.
In this article, we take a look at the Academy Award nominated movie Food, Inc. as part of our 2010 Product and Service Review Series. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature, Food, Inc. examines the highly mechanized and industrialized food industry as it exists today.
Originally released in the USA on April 3, 2009, it took 6 years to bring this movie to the screen. Director/producer Robert Kenner has done a wonderful job taking the viewer from past to present in terms of the once personalized nature of food to the now profit-driven, corporate-controlled food supply.
Today I’m going to get up on my soapbox a little bit. I’ve addressed the importance of product ingredient awareness in a previous article I wrote called Canine Diets And Their Ingredients.
This article takes a slightly different approach and looks more at the importance of label reading as it relates to changes in ingredients. Subtle changes from high quality to inferior ingredients by companies who have had a reputation of providing “safe” products that “promote health and well being” is not only a pet peeve of mine, but it could be a danger to trusting customers as well.
We here at Soulful Equine have had a blessed event we would like to announce to all our loyal followers. Within the past few weeks, we became the proud godparents of four bouncing baby killdeer.
Now, I understand that this is a website devoted mostly to animals of the equine persuasion, but since I don’t have the “horse nut gene” referred to in my Evidence That There Really IS A “Horse Nut Gene” article, I felt it was my duty as the geneless one to expand our horizons and look at some other incredible creatures.
Here is the story of the first batch of Soulful Equine’s 2010 baby killdeer (I just noticed another nest in the middle of the driveway with 2 eggs in it).
Last week on Tuesday, March 30th was the first time we at Soulful Equine have missed our regularly scheduled Tuesday blog post. We set a standard for ourselves to post every Tuesday and have been doing that with diligence since the blog opened on November 10, 2009. However, for the March 30th blog post, neither Stephanie nor I could bring ourselves to write.
Monday, March 29th was a very sad day at Soulful Equine. My little dog Idgie had been dealing with heart problems for about 5 years and had lived a quality life until the last week or so. It soon became apparent that it was time to help her pass, so with a reluctance that I can’t even begin to put into words, I called the vet and asked her to come out to my home that Monday.
In today’s post, I have decided that it’s time to try to look further into whether or not there really is a “horse nut gene”.
There are things in this world that are best left unexplored, but I don’t feel that this is one of them. By showing that this gene truly DOES exist, we will be helping to remove the stigma that these poor souls live with on a daily basis.
No longer will people wonder if environment played a factor. It will simply be accepted as something they were “born with”… an inherited trait… not a disease and something worthy of psychoanalysis.
Today is doggie day. It’s time to take a look at what we are feeding our canine companions.
There are many more choices out there now and although that is great in some respects it can also be very confusing.
Canned? Dried? Raw? Fresh? Frozen? Dehydrated?
What ingredients should you WATCH for and what others should you WATCH OUT for?
Nowadays many people are stressed out most of the time.
Whether it be thanks to the economy and job insecurity or working two jobs to help make ends meet or relationship issues or dealing with the kids and all their needs, etc… most of us are going 90 mph and feel like we’re getting no where.
Chronic stress affects we humans far more than we realize. It can manifest itself as “minor” problems like facial lines (hello, that should be classified as “major”!), nail biting and moodiness or it can show up in a much more major way such as digestive problems, sleep problems and immune system disorders.
Hopefully you guys all got a chance to read Stephanie’s last two posts on “fear”. She did a great job addressing the feeling of doubt that many of us have had when it comes to stepping outside the norm and learning not to care what other people think.
We all are familiar with that feeling of doubt. Some of us experience it more often than others, but I would be willing to bet that all of us have felt it at least once in our lives. It’s such a different feeling from the feeling we get when we have confidence in ourselves or in our beliefs, isn’t it?
