1.0The Vegan Dragonhttps://thevegandragon.comrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Bijz1iuiM5"><a href="https://thevegandragon.com/index.php/2026/08/11/horse-gear-abuse/">Horse Gear Abuse</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://thevegandragon.com/index.php/2026/08/11/horse-gear-abuse/embed/#?secret=Bijz1iuiM5" width="600" height="338" title="“Horse Gear Abuse” — The Vegan Dragon" data-secret="Bijz1iuiM5" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! 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Instead, I will put it here where it’s safer. This is a Canadian standardbred horse covered in torture devices. I go into more detail on these devices and others here, but I’ll focus on these ones in the image for this post. Where do I even begin….? You have THREE blinders on this horse. The half cup pacifier blinders, square blinders, and a turnup shadow roll. There are pull out ear plugs. There is a bar bit overcheck, which will crunch the top of the nose and chin with a scissoring action if the horse tries to lower his head. There is a head pole with burrs to prevent him from turning his head and if he tries the burrs will stab into his neck causing pain. Lugging bit which causes more pain to force control on the sensitive gums and tongue. And HOG RINGS! In some places where they do harness racing (I notice this mostly in Canada where this image originates from) the slavers will stab a hole into the alar flap of the nostril, put a metal ring in it, and then use a zip tie to pull the hog rings together pulling the alar flaps up and out of the nostril. The belief is this “helps” with breathing, but there is absolutely no study or evidence it does. If horses “love to race” why are they forced to wear so much gear that causes pain, sensory depravation, and helplessness? If horses loved racing wouldn’t they be out there running and trotting without needing anything? Certainly they wouldn’t need to be beaten with whips! This is a slave, not an “athlete.” And equestrians HATE horses. * * * * Why did I remove it from Facebook? Because despite the rapist slaver who posted the original having almost no followers, for some reason Facebook snitched on me and shared my post with her fellow rapist slavers. I began to receive death threats which I’m use to at this point, but my concern was that my post could get a copyright strike which would restrict my account. Account restrictions are annoying, and at this time I am doing some serious animal rescue work and me being unable to communicate with people could cause dogs and cats to die. Now, my post is FAIR USE as I’m using the image for educational purposes. So the psychopath can’t take me to court. I mean, she could try to take me to court but since I don’t make money off this, never claimed it as mine, and it’s used for educational purposes it means it’s fair use and I can post. My entire website is fair use as well. So, while I am not scared of her wasting her money on trying to take me to court (not that a lawyer would take the case because copyright lawyers only care about if money is being made) I can’t risk dealing with Facebook over restrictions at this time. Maybe once things get a bit less hectic I can… But here’s the fun thing: I have collected over 80,000 images from these abusers over the years. From slaughterhouse footage, horse racetracks around the world, fur farms, greyhound racing, etc. And I have it all available in my Gallery. At this time I am moving my images to self hosting as I was sharing them via Google Drive before. But, with the AI garbage Google has been pushing I am worried about the AI flagging some of the animal abuse images, as it did flag some of the images showing human abortion (I mean, babies being ripped apart probably would make AI think I was a serial killer….). I don’t want to get my Google account nuked, and not everyone has Google. In fact, I’ve been seeing more and more people deleting Google due to the AI surveillance. So, to be safe, I’m transferring all images and videos to self hosting. This means everything will be in a computer I own that you can access. You know how a storage datacenter is just millions of hard drives that store websites on them and you can access them through the internet? Self hosting is the same thing but you use your own computer instead of paying for space at a storage datacenter (storage data centers are different from the hyperscale data centers used for AI). Once all my images and videos are on the self hosting they can no longer be scanned by AI, no longer can be reported (I guess you could report to police if you want to waste their time), and no longer can I ever get a strike of any kind. So, these freaks can scream and try to stop me, but I’m not breaking the law and I just self host. There is no website to report to. Anyway, here are images of the original Facebook post! And the stats for being up for like 14 hours or whatever. Anyway, I’ll let everyone know when I get this new computer up and running for the self hosting for the gallery. I am working on moving and plan on getting it up after the move so I can have a dedicated place for that computer. Right now my current living situation I don’t have a good space for it so want to get it up after moving as I’m building a house. It’s for the sanctuary and everything. Hope everyone keeps raising awareness and please download and share this image and all others you find on the accounts of these people, or you collect it from my gallery, or wherever you find the images. These abusers are losing. We are exposing them, horseracing is dying, and the world keeps becoming more vegan each day. 🙂https://thevegandragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/768284838_1580365347119117_4959249948220478349_n.jpg18291638