Remarks posted by Megan Preisler at Lonely T Ranch about riding lame horses are something altogether different.
They’ve got the heart to go all day even when it bothers them ❤️
One of my best mares had founder feet and she trucked my ass through the Black Hills for a week straight. She was more than lame by day 3 of riding but her heart kept her goin s
trong the rest of the week. 🙌 “WTF is that?! A lame horse has more heart because this crazy nut-job forces them to work through the pain?!
Megan Preisler is really fond of riding horses who are not just a little lame, but founder lame. This is the video that accompanied that post, showing her riding a clearly lame horse.
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This is also the same horse she brags about causing to flip over by tying the reins too short in an earlier post.
Tied down Texas head for his first real session with more bit pressure than usual. Well… he did what I love to see! He flipped himself over backwards right off the bat thinking he could evade the bit pressure 😂
That never works for a horse unless gear breaks and by going to that extreme right off the bat, you will have a horse that won’t mess with bit pressure again 🙌
The weird thing, first I’ve seen yet, was that when he got up and I asked him to walk he looked like he pinched a nerve or stunted himself for about the next 10 minutes of walking 👀
Needless to say he worked out that kink on his own by just “walking it off” and we proceeded with the rest of our foundation. 🌱
I’m more than a little horrified to know she’s shoeing horses too if she prefers a lame horse to a sound one.
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While we’re at it, nothing like ruining your horse’s mouth before you even get in the saddle.
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More than a few people are already up in arms, with good reason, and have done a number on the Reviews for Lonely T Ranch’s Facebook page. Not surprising, over 1700 people “Liked” and followed the page, without saying mum about this behavior.
Some days I wish I was ignorant enough to “just do it” in regards to riding, but then I realize I have a soul and no amount of selfish desire will ever make me think it’s okay to ride a lame horse for my own gain.
I mean, really, riding a foundered horse 3 days through the Black Hills and saying that’s your “best horse”?! The English language can’t properly convey my disgust at this moment, but it doesn’t end there.
Ethical vs. Unethical Training
Megan Preisler’s lack of empathy towards horses runs deep, and “that’s not all folks.”
She endured day 1 of pain but has 100 left to add up to the pain she gave me. After 3 hours today she was drained. She can’t quite walk easily but neither can I so it’s an eye for an eye type deal.
She got to run a marathon the entire afternoon with a rope around each leg. I figure if I can’t slow her down or kill her with throwing anything possible at her until I’m healed to ride her, then she deserves to live.
I’ve never saw it ethical to break a horses heart bc once that horses passion leaves then their will to exceed for their rider does as well.
But she’s the first horse in my lifetime that I’ve deemed as unpredictable and with that comes the major decision of running standard training or unethical training.
Standard training would be waht has basically worked on every horse I’ve dealt with but with an unpredictable one it’s just not enough.
Unethical training is harsh, dangerous for both horse and human, but it is the last resort to use and the only type of training that can break their heart and take away any fight, flight or will power to do anything other than stand there.
I’m going to pour my heart into her all winter…. And I’m excited to get back on her once I’m healed. ❤️
I’ll post waht I do each session with her. One can judge as much as they’d like to with what I’m going to have this mare endure but just remember that I know this horse, YOU do not.
-The blood on my pants, picture that times 10 as an entire 2 inch thick, 2 ft by 1 ft pad was drenched red after 20 ish min. It was awesomeeeeeeee 🙄
There is nothing but petty vengeance going on here. Zero understanding of horses, and if the horse is seriously that far outside of your abilities as a trainer you should be sending them on to someone more capable. There is no excuse for abusing a horse because you got injured by them.
Megan Preisler shouldn’t be allowed to go anywhere near animals, whether they are horses, dairy cows, or otherwise.
Terri says
This woman sounds sick. I mean SERIOUSLY sick as in needs a psychiatric work-up sick. I don’t think I ever heard animal abuse described by the perpetrator in quite this way. I’ve heard of and read reports of serial killers described this way.
“I loved them so much I had to kill them”. She seems to be enjoying it right down to the blood in her pants. It’s ghoulish and sadistic and how come she hasn’t been reported to the authorities?
Jenni says
Unfortunately, the authorities aren’t likely to do anything if the horses are in decent condition, weight-wise. Her posts are disturbing, for sure.
Linda Dennis says
She needs to be reported to authorities there, for animal cruelty. Share documentation about lameness conditions and pain.
Sparrowette says
My grandpa was a cattle rancher, used horses to do the work. He never treated his horses like that. They were his partners in the work, and he and they both went through the same experiences. When they both got back in from the belly deep snow, they got a warm oat mash.
You can’t hide behind “I’m a farmer” as an excuse.
Someone says
For someone who lives on the other side of the country you sure have a lot to say. Maybe you should do some in person research instead of relying solely on social media, for all you know someone else could be writing those posts not Megan.
Erica Franz says
Right, okay Christina Otto…
Adelaide says
Whelp, add you to the list of passengers on the cunt train. Who the hell do you think you are, being in Washington and judging someone in Wisconsin based off a FB page? Let’s go, let’s see how you like how it feels.
Erica Franz says
Dee says
Why are there so many seriously deranged people in horses, especially in USA? This, of course, includes the tossers you poor folk inherited from Australia who couldn’t cut it there.
I live in hope that every last one of these goddamn MOFO morons gets their karma x 10 and that they find no escape from their suffering, just as their horses could not. Despicable beings you have found and gathered here, I have to go, it makes my heart hurt too much and my faith in humanity is eroded even more than it already was.