Need To Clarify About The 'Trainer' Post

I'm re-doing this post. I don't know why this bugs me, but it does.

Starving a horse down is not normal and I thought the practice had died out a long time ago but apparently, still happens at least this once. Years ago, people used to supply feed to their trainers instead of paying a flat fee and a lot of the feed was diverted to other horses. In my view, paying the flat fee is the way to go but that's not what I'm writing about right now.

Trainers are in the biz to make money and even saying something generally can get people to go elsewhere for their needs and hurt the 'trainers' business. The response that I allowed to be posted is correct in that I and any other blogger has to be careful to not hurt someone's business, no matter what it is.

So, rest assured, I do not target people and only use generalities in referring to trainers. I handled the situation personally but felt that maybe some owners didn't/don't know what to expect and so posted about it. This situation really got my goat. I guess I let the post get too personal because I was extremely bugged so I'll try and watch that from now on.

Another concern which I didn't realize, this blog started out on Craigslist as a regional thing but I know horsepeople from almost all over the world and talk to them quite a bit, dial-up or not. Just because I'm posting about something doesn't mean it's local to southern Oregon or even the PNW. Also, in the space/time continuim (sp?) things may have happened a while ago (or years) or yesterday. I have tried to keep things sort of generic.

Okay, the rambling has started so going to let it go...if I can... :-)