Terri Greer Terri Greer, Animal Welfare Council, Texas. These are multi-million dollar political organizations with considerable legislative power.
Many people equate the horse industry with the carriage horse.
That's the main contact people have with horses. We need to promote our industry positively, and police our industry judiciously. We need to conduct educational programs within our industry to teach people how to present the horse to the public, how to treat our horses at shows and rodeos. There's not a show out there that should not have an educational program to go along with the show portion. When I was the humane official for the professional rodeo cowboys association some years ago, I would attend the Animal Welfare Council meetings and average about five queries about rodeo each day.