Release Me

Släpp hingstarna loss det är vår!
Hingstsläppet på bassholmen i bohuslän 2007.

21 1 and 2 year old stallions releast on a island on the westcoast of sweden.
Were they spend the summer, eating, playing and growing!

• Category

  Pets & Animals

[Codababy]

Does anyone watch out for these horses once they let them go? What happens if one of them breaks a leg or gets seriously injured while they're on the island? Do they just leave them there to die if something happens? I don't get it, why would anyone do that to their horse?

[goldentinka]

People are locking after the horses ewery day, this is a wery good start for young horses! And many of the are going to be competition horses (dressage, showjumping) later on!

[Varda87]

I know well enough about fight or flight instict. You still don't make sense. This is nature - whether they have been domesticated for 1000's of years wild ones will suffer - nature is harsh as you said! Every animal out in the wild suffers - they break legs, get sick and die but that's how it is. To keep them in captivity because you don't want them to be hurt makes no sense absolutely. There's even wild horses in an African desert - obviously horses let loose - but they're living a good life!

[Varda87]

Like being with people? Maybe tamed ones. But have you seen wild brumbies being driven off cliffs to their deaths? Those horses rather die than be captured! They just jump off! In that case i should go and capture every single tiger out there (since it's endangered and if tamed can live with people - even with hazards). Nature is nature - some will survive in the wild some won't. Let it take it's place and don't interfere. Any animal would rather go free than stay with humans.

[StarrySkyTv]

First comment in 8 months.....

[999lightchild]

Well four years later I have to respond to you...It doesn't matter what happens...They are free and go with nature...That is the free spirit of life. It all takes care for itself...just let it go and enjoy the free spirit of life...don't be so afraid...Love Sonja

[PumpkinRolll]

21 stallions.. Oh no. LOL sounds like paradise to them tho :)

[Andrew Wu]

yeah, but at the same time like now in america and around the world horses get slaughtered or abused/left to die....

[xpandabearx1]

Amazinn songg!;)

[cowgirlstevie]

I believe that domesticated horses should stay in the hands of humans purely for the fact that because they have been domesticated for so many years they would probably not be much good in the wild. Sure they still have the natural instinct but in the end they have been domesticated and whether or not that is a good thing is open for discussion but I do agree that horses that were born in the wild need to stay in the wild because they are not used to living in captivity and they would not thrive

[DarthVegie]

Now, the TRULY wild breed of horse, the Przewalski's horse, we my. That breedis theonlyone, thatover the course of human history has never been truly domesticated. Brumbies, American mustangs, they are feral, descended from domestic.

[DarthVegie]

The Brumbies Varda87 mentioned think humans are such a threat to them and the survival of their species that they think they have better odds jumping off cliffs. The domesticated horses believe their odds of survival lie with us- and I believe it does. Horses are valued companions, even if there are an excess of them. The world won't run out of horses anytime soon.

[DarthVegie]

Face it, horses are prey animals.  Prey as in food for predators. You and I, our eyes face forward, a physical mark of a pedator. The only reason horses and humans get along so well is the fact that horses are followers. They will willingly accept leads from those that do not seem to mean them harm. Now, lets look at this in the psychology of survival instinct way.

[DarthVegie]

It's not cruel in anyway- not when you think about the originsof that cheeseburger you're eating. People are only weirded out about eating horse because we think of them as companions, like dogs, but even dogs can be food to us. Why should horses be any different? Don't say "They have emotion wahwahwah", dogs do too. Cows do. Why are horses so special?