2 unbroken horses shot by authorities in Cambs

it really amazes me that they couldnt catch there two horses even though they are 'experienced professionals' when people can herd and catch thousands of wild deer, antelope etc in other countries. What a waste of life...

Ok, i read through the replies and yes, the owners are to blame. And ok, they could have gotten onto the road but maybe if a big plan for one day was put into place to block their way onto the road and start penning them in - they may then have been darted and moved?!

i dont understand it.

its the police who are trigger happy in my opinion and the RSPCA will come out, only when they have to.
 
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Thistle said:
Amazing isn't it, you can catch a wild lion in Africa but not 2 horses in Cambs!

In this case it looks like the owners are at fault. Horses were totally wild and unhandled.
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Yes but in Africa they have all that open space that they can fly about with helicopters to get close enough to use the darts. It does say that. Too many horses are not handled from almost birth so they are used to it. Lazy in my opinion. All horses should be handled otherwise how can owners expect vets, blacksmiths etc to help when needed.:mad:
 
Kadastorm said:
it really amazes me that they couldnt catch there two horses even though they are 'experienced professionals' when people can herd and catch thousands of wild deer, antelope etc in other countries. What a waste of life...

Ok, i read through the replies and yes, the owners are to blame. And ok, they could have gotten onto the road but maybe if a big plan for one day was put into place to block their way onto the road and start penning them in - they may then have been darted and moved?!

i dont understand it.

its the police who are trigger happy in my opinion and the RSPCA will come out, only when they have to.
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Because when the choice comes to people being injured then I'm afraid the loose horses will lose out every time in fact any loose animal opposed to a human life will always be chosen.
 
I have to say I agree with those who don't believe there /couldn't/ have been a way to corral them.

*But* sadly expect they may be better off as is. The kind of person who has unhandled mares and stallions running together in inadequate fencing might be otherwise a great owner... but I think on average probably not. The RSPCA don't have limitless spaces for horses.

Very sad.
 
Better 2 dead horses than somebody posting on here that their Mum/Dad/Brother/Sister had been killed by the horses careering onto the main road whilst trying to be caught.

I hope the owners will be educated in the importance of handling young stock and ensuring that their fields are secure.
 
quirky said:
Better 2 dead horses than somebody posting on here that their Mum/Dad/Brother/Sister had been killed by the horses careering onto the main road whilst trying to be caught.

I hope the owners will be educated in the importance of handling young stock and ensuring that their fields are secure.
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This^^^^

It is very sad that 2 Horses were killed, but it's better then them causing an accident were people could possibly die.

Blame lies with the owner.
 
LaurenBay said:
This^^^^

It is very sad that 2 Horses were killed, but it's better then them causing an accident were people could possibly die.

blame lies with the owner
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how do u know blame lies with owner what if travelers let them out???

typical rspca take the easy option.


I dont get it they can shoot them ????????? but they cant hit them with a tranquilize gun¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a _)&*(%^(*() COP OUT

WHY DIDNT THEY GIVE THE MARKSMAN THE TRANQUILIZE GUN??????????????????????????????
 
diamond_light said:
how do u know blame lies with owner what if travelers let them out???

typical rspca take the easy option.


I dont get it they can shoot them ????????? but they cant hit them with a tranquilize gun¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a _)&*(%^(*() COP OUT

WHY DIDNT THEY GIVE THE MARKSMAN THE TRANQUILIZE GUN??????????????????????????????
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Sorry but even if travellers let the horses out, the owners had still not handled either of them, if they HAD been handled the outcome could have been very different.
 
diamond_light said:
how do u know blame lies with owner what if travelers let them out???

typical rspca take the easy option.


I dont get it they can shoot them ????????? but they cant hit them with a tranquilize gun¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a _)&*(%^(*() COP OUT

WHY DIDNT THEY GIVE THE MARKSMAN THE TRANQUILIZE GUN??????????????????????????????
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Because the owners obviously hadn't done any handling with them. Had the Horses been handled and used to human contact they would have been far easier to catch. I didn't say the owners had let the Horses escape on purpose, But would have been much easier if they had bothered with the Horses in the first place. So yes owners are to blame.

I'm not saying that all handled Horses would be caught, but they stand a better chance.
 
right so anyone buying a pony from newforest which are wild rememebr you must train them and get them tam,e in nion quick time or if they get out they will be shot because u didnt tame them quick enough

the mare was prob preggo so thats 3 lives gone
 
flowerlady said:
Because when the choice comes to people being injured then I'm afraid the loose horses will lose out every time in fact any loose animal opposed to a human life will always be chosen.
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not in my book if i had to rescue a person or horse from a fire i would choose horse every time
 
Round them up for what?

To add to the ever increasing number of unwanted horses.

Very sad that this was the extent of their lives but at least they had plenty to eat before they were shot and didn't go through the markets from one ignorant owner to another.
 
diamond_light said:
not in my book if i had to rescue a person or horse from a fire i would choose horse every time
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I am :eek: by this comment, I really am.

So if one of your family members were stuck in a fire at the stables, you would rescue your Horse first?

I love my Horse dearly, but she is just an animal at the end of the day and if it came down to it I would rescue the person even if I didn't know them.
 
none my family would never be in a stable as none of them are horsey in any way shape or form

so that would never be a situation
other than that i prefer horses to humans anyway they are my family leaving them in there over a stranger is something i would not do
 
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To all those who say they should have coralled them - do you know what the country is like around there. There is no pasture apart from horse paddocks & if they were in one of them there wouldn't have been a problem. The rest is arable/vegetables. So were you expecting a farmer to give up an area of his crop to be trampled - it's been so dry around there yields will already have been badly hit. There are very few fences or hedges, the field boundaries are fen drains. And because the land is so flat with no hedges etc the horses would have been able to see them miles off (literally) & would have been able to bog off in anywhere before they could be herded in a particular direction. It's totally different to moorland where you can use the lie of the land to help.
 
They had spent quite a bit of time trying was it a month?? Sound wild and next to a busy A road as well. Either they would have been killed or have killed.

Owners should pay all the costs and be banned from keeping horse ever again!

Stallion running with a mare too lethal. If they had caused a RTA etc

Right thing was done and very sad it came to this. Irresponsible should be brought to account.

Cant blame RSPCA and would imagine it was last resort too. They even tried to tranquilise I mean what more could they realistically have done.
 
Every situation is different and each outcome will therefore be different. The rspca have in other circumstances successfully coraled and sedated wild/feral/unhandled stray/loose horses. So the fact that they tried and failed in this situation should tell people that it wasn't an easy situation the horses were in. Unless you have the full inside story of this particular story I don't think anyone is in a position to judge. Yes the outcome was a sad one, but at least no suffering occured, the owner, welfare organisation AND police all agreed on the outcome. And responsibility lies here with the owner.
 
I live just up the road from where these horses were loose and I believe shooting was the kindest option in the end. They had been destroying a farmers crops for a month, getting onto roads risking a serious accident and cause no end of problems for people who's horses were near by. They followed people out hacking and broke into one field causing injury to another horse before escaping again. They weren't just unbroken, they hadn't even had a headcollar on. There were numerous attempts to catch them but people were warned that they had legal responsibility if they did catch them. The police took a long time to get involved, as did the RSPCA. The RSPCA went to check the horses, saw 3 in a field that didn't fit the description and said they were well cared for! Clearly not the right horses! Despite this I'm not sure what they could do. They tried to heard them back to their field in a last attempt, the police and RSPCA were there but there was no way they could have done this safely. The horses were owned by a family (you can guess what kind) who apparently visited them once a week. At one point they were saying that if anyone could catch them then they could have them. There were then rumours that if anyone got involved then there would be repercussions. With all the horses needing homes out there at the moment I think there are a lot more worse off than these two!
 
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