Advice needed on a friends situation, esp you legal eagles please.

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Equus Leather

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A friend, lets call her H, sold her horse last year. Nothing out of the ordinary, he was a bog standard hacker. Went to a woman who has him liveried close by.

H and the new owner, lets call her S, lost touch over the year, but now are back in touch. H went to see the horse this weekend. S was there. Horse is in very poor condition. Seems S isnt very knowledgable and the horse had wintered very poorly outside without enough food. H very upset.

H has spoken to other folk on the yard and has found out that S has left him 6 weeks without a visit, that sometimes he gets 2 feeds a day, other times he gets nothing. S has been trying to ride him, but hes a hat rack and understandably has been causing trouble when the saddle is put on.

H text S after the visit and said she was disgusted at the horses condition, and offered to buy him back. S had made comments previously re not having enough money to feed the horse.

No reply to many texts and phonecalls to S.

Now, I can understand S would be peeved if old owner stated she was disguested with the horses condition.

H is quite headstrong and has said shes going to call in unannounced this week and see the horse again and feed him.

I've told her not to, and to report it to WHW if she is that worried.

Where does she stand if she does start feeding this horse?
 
apart from trespass and potentially on or two other civil issues? How owuld she feel if somebody marched in and took charge of a horse she owned?

Simply, she sold this horse. If she had been a bit more careful the horse might well have been sold back to her but I imagine she has put S's back up now. The horse would have to be in a very poor state to be a welfare case. I understand that she may be concerned for the horse, but she needs to tread carefully now.
 
What exactly are you ask re. "where does she stand?", what are your concerns?

Is she opening herself up to get in trouble for things like trespassing, yes quite possibly...
 
like mother_hen says, she will have to tread very carefully now that she's upset S. if i were her, i would contact the WHW and explain the full situation to them. turning up unexpected and feeding a horse which isnt hers might get her into alot of trouble.
i think getting in contact with the WHW is the best choice for her.
 
Can only agree with M-H. The horse is no longer hers and non of her business. Sad as that may be.
 
Yes, sadly the way she's dealt with this has probably jeopardised her chances of getting the horse back. Sounds like the owners are out of their depth. Either someone needs to help the new owner with the correct way to look after horses. Or maybe speak to the YO who has a duty of care also I believe?

If not then no option but to call WHW. The horse's welfare is paramount here.
 
Phrases 'shot herself in the foot' and 'not a leg to stand on' come to mind.

Know thats prob not what you want to hear but she really has not helped the situ...
 
Yep, she sold the horse, so she lost the ability to secure his safe future. Now she's gone in there all guns blazing she can only hope that WHW (not RSPCA...) can do something to help him instead. He's going to have to be pretty bad before they can act though.
 
If she really is upset and wants the horse back then maybe she could take a deep breath apologise for what she has said, explain how much she regrets selling the horse and how she wants him back, offer a good price and hope the women falls for it. I am a sucker for my pets and in this situation would probably want to get horse back, heart rules my head.
 
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