Horses as property...

I was reading articles that had to do with equine psychology when I came upon a project called WHEEP which keeps a herd of horses in a wild but contained environment for studying. The project is shut down now, but the research is not being written. I was reading part of a blog on the topic and thought it was really interesting how we hardly now anything at all about the natural characteristics of the horse. In the wild they are like mystical creatures that no one can pin down. However, now that most horses are domesticated, they are treated like property and no one gives a second thought to allowing them to be "natural" instead of conforming to our standards. Like most domesticated animals I guess.