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Post by jl on Aug 6, 2007 21:50:18 GMT 1
nine, everyone is helping these horses, just by supporting what were doing IS helping, we cant do it without the support
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Post by rosemaryhannah on Aug 6, 2007 23:16:28 GMT 1
Let me say that I support you all very much, though for the time being I fear I can't DO much - having the added problem of not merely needing to get the horse to the south of England but then up to Scotland. And then keep it!
I have one little rescue - dear little 11.2 whose owner had nowhere to place him when a riding school closed and as he is very nervous feared he would go from hand to hand. So he lives with me, in a stable little herd and makes a great little driving pony. I know Welsh ponies and Dartmoors go straight from the hills to slaughter - and I suppose NF as well, and that the meat man is a common figure at southern auctions. But (and I speak as one a day's drive from the nearest auction) you cannot predict which auction horses are going to him before time, can you?
BUT it seems to me that there are NOT a large number of young, sound horses of a size an adult can ride going for meat in this country, and the ones that are are not easily identified in advance. This is a huge difference. I don't mean that I don't greatly pity the little chaps - as I pointed out, I do, and enough to have one - but I have (eg) said to my son that when he can afford to keep a rescue horse, I'll buy him one - one with a reasonable prospect of being ridden. It would be no point offering him a little Welshie.
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