[Tserisa]

There are vegetarian saddles and bridles. Wintec is one of the most popular manufacturers. Basically look for "synthetic". Also, most endurance tack is synthetic rather than leather because it is lighter, and thus the horse has less to carry on long rides.

DO keep in mind your horse's comfort though and make sure the saddle FITS. Some synthetic I've encountered have been uneven. Even a slight difference could hurt the horse.

When people keep their non-vegan items from before they went vegan, they sometimes jokingly call them "pre-gan". Heh. I have an angora hat and scarf that I was given as a gift, for example. (Angora is bunny "wool" -- it is vegetarian but not vegan.) One reason to keep pre-gan stuff rather than get rid of them is because discarding perfectly good stuff and buying more things encourages the consumerist culture (which is not good for animals, the environment or society).Some veg*ns (vegetarians/vegans) choose to donate their non-veg items.

I have a personal conundrum. Someone gave me a used leather jacket. I was not present to be able to say, "Thanks but no thanks, I'm vegan," so I kind of got stuck with it. Now what? I shoved it in the back of my broom closet. I can't bear the thought of throwing it away, wasting the sacrifice that cow made. I CERTAINLY will not sell it, profitting from its death. But I'm not sure I want to donate it to a place like Goodwill because then I am just perpetuating someone's desire to dress themself up in animal skins and putting it back into circulation. So for now, it languishes in my closet until I can decide what to do with it.