Comments on: What’s Wrong w/ Showing Eight Belles Injury On Air?

By: Gidget

Gidget — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:19:26 +0000

Animals do have thoughts like people and CAN communcate, we just cant understand them. Like a mexican and and asian…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:35:49 +0000

The horse had a choice. If it didnt want to race it shouldnt run so damn fast. The great THINKING horse could say “hey, F this, im gonna go slow as shit”

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:04:23 +0000

You people are idiots.. and missed the point of the article.

I totally agree with you Chuck. All I can think of is Willis McGahee and Shaun Livingston being replayed over and over. They looked so painful I had to look away each time they replayed it, which they did, many times. You would even have to watch it on SportsCenter that night, and the rest of the week.

For some reason though, it’s too terrible to watch an animal suffer… I don’t get it either.

By: Marina

Marina — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:53:52 +0000

I think that animals are just as capable of thought as people are… they just don’t have voices to communicate it. I agree with Tamena, it’s not like she was the one that wanted to race. It was so cruel. A football player has a choice to risk breaking both ankles, a horse doesn’t.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:03:35 +0000

Ummm…..I don’t think they actually ask that question to anyone Tamena…but if they did ask Belles that question, and the filly answered. I really don’t think they would have raced her that day.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:05:28 +0000

LMAO

By: Harvey Bars

Harvey Bars — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:24:46 +0000

I blame Disney and Nickelodeon for giving people the notion that animals and inanimate objects are capable of abstract thought. Do you think Belles was just laying there on the track with all the doctors around contemplating whether or not she did enough with her life? No, if anything she was thinking ‘Oats, oats, oats, oats, run, run, run, run, ouch, ouch, ouch’ (Sopranos-esque cut-to-black).

By: tamena

tamena — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:11:34 +0000

the difference is no one asked the horse if it wanted to be there and chance breaking it’s legs…

By: Harvey Bars

Harvey Bars — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:34:47 +0000

How come I can watch Clint Malarchuk getting his jugular vein slashed over and over again on YouTube (which I do), but I can’t watch this injury? That’s the real tragedy here.