sasquatch
Well-Known Member
I'd be interested in what's counted as 'premature' though.
Would having an 8yo riddled with arthritis and conformation defects that cause it pain PTS be considered premature because the horse didn't get to live out its life in a field until it was 30+ years old, regardless of it would be field sound or not?
Or would having an older horse PTS due to a lot of age related conditions that would end up causing a lot more suffering the longer its left considered premature?
The statistic doesn't seem right at all, even if they're referring to the whole horse population globally - I'd like to see a breakdown per country (and I doubt this would be possible due to how much goes 'under the radar' in multiple countries or just isn't recorded)
If this statistic was true, that means with a global horse population of roughly 58million, only 580 thousand horses don't get sent to slaughter prematurely. Which simply cannot be right, unless they count horses who die due to any reason other than slaughter in the 'slaughter' bracket too, such as starvation, heart attack, PTS for various reasons etc. and still, that doesn't seem quite right.
Unless they have surveyed an area where most horses are sent for slaughter (or my maths is wrong, I did have to google the figures) and aren't talking about the global population, then it really, really doesn't seem correct at all.
Would having an 8yo riddled with arthritis and conformation defects that cause it pain PTS be considered premature because the horse didn't get to live out its life in a field until it was 30+ years old, regardless of it would be field sound or not?
Or would having an older horse PTS due to a lot of age related conditions that would end up causing a lot more suffering the longer its left considered premature?
The statistic doesn't seem right at all, even if they're referring to the whole horse population globally - I'd like to see a breakdown per country (and I doubt this would be possible due to how much goes 'under the radar' in multiple countries or just isn't recorded)
If this statistic was true, that means with a global horse population of roughly 58million, only 580 thousand horses don't get sent to slaughter prematurely. Which simply cannot be right, unless they count horses who die due to any reason other than slaughter in the 'slaughter' bracket too, such as starvation, heart attack, PTS for various reasons etc. and still, that doesn't seem quite right.
Unless they have surveyed an area where most horses are sent for slaughter (or my maths is wrong, I did have to google the figures) and aren't talking about the global population, then it really, really doesn't seem correct at all.