Guide horses are so successfully housebroken that they commonly fly in the passenger cabin of commercial aircraft and can reliably go on trips for up to six hours.
http://www.guidehorse.org/housebreaking.htm
Posted on 11/15/2010 12:30:57 PM PST by Nachum
As a blind Muslim woman, Mona Ramouni has had to make do without a guide dog her whole life.
The 28-year-old's strictly religious parents would not allow a dog in the house, considering the animal unclean.
But then Miss Ramouni stumbled across a website article about miniature guide horses in April 2008.
'It was something that I never thought about for myself,' she said.
The psychology student used three years of savings from her job at a Braille proofreading company to pay for a horse to be trained to act as her guide.
Since welcoming three-year-old guide horse Cali into her Dearborn, Michigan, home last year, Miss Ramouni has seen her life turned around.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Dogs have been probably the most important working animal in history”
That’s why the sheep shaggers are still stuck in the 7th Century.
“If this was a Christian woman denied a dog by her family based on religious grounds.....the Liberal Media would be attacking the family...and trying to put the family in jail”
If Christians would start blowing up TV stations, pizza parlors, & sawing the heads off of the talking heads, the
media would leave them alone also. Much easier to attack those that won’t attack back.
Unclean? Unclean in some religious meaning or because muslims don't know how to bathe a dog?
Get real, a Guide Goat would attract all the muslim dudes in the neighborhood.
“In one of the pictures at the site, it kind of looks like the horse is wearing a device to catch excrement. Sort of a reverse feed bag.”
How does she know when it’s full. Just a thought.
Here in the US they’d have to since it’s a service animal and it doesn’t specify guide dogs. It can be a horse, monkey, etc. Guide Horses are in some ways better than dogs. They live longer among other things. they also can be housebroken, ride escalators (it really upset one of my dogs the first time I took him up and down an escalator). Here’s a web page: http://www.guidehorse.org/
I don’t know the law in England but here in the US they’d get sued if they didn’t allow the guide horse in. It’s covered by the Americans with Disabilities act. Also the horses are housebroken and any that aren’t able to pass this part are removed from the program.
Guide horses are so successfully housebroken that they commonly fly in the passenger cabin of commercial aircraft and can reliably go on trips for up to six hours.
http://www.guidehorse.org/housebreaking.htm
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