ngdawg

5'6" at the time with 3ft legs(can we say 'gangly'?)....I grew a bit after high school
Damn, talk about a threadjack!! *makes a sharp left to be back on the road*

Dogs humping legs is something people see as merely 'sex', but it's not sex to a dog, it's either an attempt to control the person they're humping(specially when they attach to a visitor-it's a 'I'm the boss here, buster' action) or it's done out of frustration. A friend had a female Pekinese that would hump a pillow whenever there was company in her house. First she'd tear at it, swinging it around, then she'd mount it.
CaptJ-in horseracing, those 'whips' aren't strong enough to do physical damage to a horse's hide. In rodeo's however, in order to get a horse to buck, its genitals are tied tightly with a leather strap. That was not always the case-'unbroken' horses used to be used, but could only be ridden for so long before they'd just get used to it and stop bucking. Horses have been 'domesticated' for hundreds of years, bred for their particular usage; racehorses are no exception to that and any legitimate stable would be stupid to be abusive toward its animals and those that have, whether through physical means or chemical have been prosecuted and tossed out of the industry. New Jersey(where I live) is a huge horseracing/breeding state and I can attest to the mostly exemplary 'lifestyle' those animals live.

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