60 cattle horses about to get washed away!

Off grid a bit but:
http://www.rspca.org.uk/inyourarea/detail/-/iya/Birmingham Newbrook Farm Animal Centre/

72 acres???
Before the rspca robbed people I mean asked people to donate this was infact a HMP Farm and I have visited and seen the land first hand.
More than adequate for the horses.
....and dogs and cats....they bragged in a paper that they had 160? pods and only took 20 cats.....then wouldn't take anymore.....140 empty pods by my reckoning..
 
I would be willing to help with transport although I am not local, but the trouble is who to get hold of? The Gloucestershire Horse Riders facebook page is a closed group, so that's no use.
 
Hi this is an awful situation.I live in the area and could take one horse as I have facilities.
I beleive the WHW may have been monitoring this . Why can't u get anyone at Christmas. If original poster could contact me .I may have mobile number for field officer.
 
The thread has been pulled on Gloucestershire Horse Riders page and a disclaimer put on. There is a meeting tomorrow of members at the site who are determined to do something. There have been enough offers of land but the difficulty is actually moving the horses legally and I don't think they are reachable by land at the moment, last time hay had to be craned into them fom the causeway.
 
Owner not interested it seems.........landowner is trying I believe and has been asking owner to move horses for weeks.
 
If its the legality of moving them then surely it's the fault of the owner.
I feel for the poor animals but it annoys me that selfish idiots end up having everyone running round clearing up after them because they can't be arsed!
Sounds like these poor animals should of been moved ages ago.
I really hope something can be done for them and the owners arse spanked!
 
So sad that the RSPCA wont pull their finger out to help these horses, but are happy to spend £10.000's on money just to prove a point and 'try' to look good over the fox hunting debate, to think of the ways that money could have been used to help sick and needy animals.
Sick animals dont have days off over christmas, but sounds like the RSPCA dont worry abot that.
Hope those horses are found a better place to live.
 
If you get the nationals involved the RSPCA will move a lot quicker; that was proved with Hope. They only like to be seen coming to the rescue otherwise they'll do nought without a bomb up their bum (like a national paper campaign against them)
 
There are a group of people from the Gloucestershire horse riders group going to look at them today, to look for injuries and food and then calling police/vets and RSPCA from there I think. I believe they have tried media etc but are still trying again. So sad, and its been raining all night again
 
Just emailed sky news about it after them going on about hunts, perhaps if a few more contacted them perhaps with more details might help.
 
Typical RSPCA, nothing but a political organization who think nothing of wasting thousands upon thousands on a fox, yet always seem to let real cruelty/animals in distress pass them by. Look at Carrot and Spud - it was HHO and BHS welfare that sorted them out in the end - just you wait until a collector comes around my area again, they will hear it...:mad:
 
Really sad to see that many posters are using the plight of these horses to have a whine about hunting and the RSPCA.

Harsh truth is that the RSPCA has to work with in the law. Hence, if these horses and cattle have their legal requirements met (regardless if by owner or others), the welfare agencies are stuffed. No doubt these bodies are trying to get the livestock signed over.

Totally agree that media coverage is the best way to get this situation resolved.
 
If transport and legality can be sorted we'd take a relatively healthy one but i'd struggle to take on big vets bills as it would be coming to livery so costing me quite a bit, the keep, weight gain and minor knocks I could deal with. Have to be a biggish one though as pony paddock is full and not allowed tinies in the big field. I can't get the links. How do I offer? I have no transport to go that far though at present. If anyone lincs way gets one and can bring another please let me know, I could arrange collection locally.
 
It has been raining all night and is pouring down now. There is nothing on the facebook site but I know they are going out today. One of the ladies is very fiesty and I am sure will do all she can. They have land to move them to and offers of lorries, its just the legalities and physically getting them out.
Stupid question...what are 'cattle horses' and why would someone have 60 of them???, I can only think they are intended for meat
 
Just to clarify dotty1 - I live almost next door to these horses (thankfully not quite underwater myself yet!) and it has not rained since 3am - I know because I've been awake with an annoying baby since then.

Please don't hype the situation up any more than has been already. The water levels are about 1 metre lower than they were at peak last time; yes, it's bad, but its been much worse recently. It's annoying that so many people are taking hearsay from 'local' people who actually live nowhere near said field as gospel truth. I do believe there are a few people getting carried away with the romantics of saving these horses.
 
Yes and people are thinking they would be given the horses free, in reality you could have them for 12 months or more, pay all the bills and then have to give them back

If required I would purchase a couple to give them a home, but would need a receipt from the owner.
 
Interesting legalities on this....if the animals had been been abandoned, then after 14 days the animals would become the property of the landowner. However, I assume that as the landowner knows who the owner is and is in contact this does not apply? Which seems tough on the landowner.. I hope this is rectified sucessfully today. We are on sand, on top of a hill and we are suffering from new lakes in the summer fields..
 
dotty1 said:
Stupid question...what are 'cattle horses' and why would someone have 60 of them???, I can only think they are intended for meat
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Argentinian 'cattle horses' are polo ponies who haven't been trained yet IMHO! Why would ANYONE in their right mind import Argentinian cow ponies HERE - unless it was to train/sell them for polo?? (The cost of import would FAR outweigh their meat value!!) Or breed - apparently there are foals out with the group.
 
JanetGeorge said:
Argentinian 'cattle horses' are polo ponies who haven't been trained yet IMHO! Why would ANYONE in their right mind import Argentinian cow ponies HERE - unless it was to train/sell them for polo?? (The cost of import would FAR outweigh their meat value!!) Or breed - apparently there are foals out with the group.
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Are these anything to do with the Camp Criollo or similar horses off the meat boats to Italy?
 
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