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Daily Needs
Horses, like all domestic animals, depend on people to provide food, water, shelter and care. They need the same things that all domestic animals need:
- Freedom from hunger or thirst by ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigour
- Freedom from discomfort by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area
- Freedom from pain, injury or disease by prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment
- Freedom to express (most) normal behaviour by providing sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the animal’s own kind (if it’s a social species)
- Freedom from fear and distress by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering
In the next few pages we will look at some of those daily needs in a little more detail…