Talk:Spike/@comment-184.98.26.97-20120422084927/@comment-222.127.223.69-20120422110246

The other 4 ponies don't abuse Spike that much due to lack of interaction but I do remember an episode where they treated him like cattle. They tied him up for some kind of rodeo competition between RD and AJ.

When it comes to Twilight, she's kind of excusable because she is his owner. Twilight can claim something like "no one picks on my baby slave except me." But sometimes you can't help but think she goes too far. Spike is a baby dragon after all and Twilight makes him do hours upon hours of manual labor day in and day out. There's two ways to accept this; its either Twilight supports forced child labor OR Spike's not really a child and is a lot older than he looks. Your pick.

Rarity has no excuse, really. Unlike Twilight, she's not Spike's owner. All Spike ever did was be kind to her. She has no obligation to reciprocate Spike's crush but does the same apply to reciprocating Spike's kindness? She has never done anything nice for him and the only time she's ever thanked him was when he gave her his fire ruby that Rarity had to trick him out of in the first place. Based on the crap he goes through for her, you'd think she'd at least treat him as a respected friend. But no, she pet-zones the poor little guy instead. Its why he wanted to leave in Dragon Quest. He just got fed up.