If anyone tells you that it is cruel for working animals like draft horses to work, you will know for sure that they know absolutely nothing about horses, work, or history. Today Pamela’s nephew Jay took Ben and Tommy out to plow the gardens at Blue Star. From border collies to draft  horses, working animals love to work. Dogs and horses (and some elephants as well) have been working with human beings for thousands of years, we could not have built our world without them.

Working animals love to work, they need to work in order to be healthy and content. You can see this at Blue Star every day, or anywhere border collies herd sheep, seeing eye dogs help the blind, carriage horses riding through Central Park,  police horses patrol the streets. And yes, many circus elephants were happy and well cared for.  Work is bred into them, it is in their genes and in ours as well.

Some people think the work of animals are stupid tricks, I think they are elitist know nothings. We need to keep animals in our everyday lives, not sent them away for the most ignorant of reasons.

Anyone who tells you that electric cars are better for the environment than horses like Ben or Tommy knows even less about the environment than they do about horses and work. Just so you know.