Spiritedly
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Is being called a 'horsey know it all' an insult or a compliment?
Another idiot.
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Spiritedly
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Sorry 'equine' not 'horsey' 
JFTDWS
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I didn't even get as far as posting, my face was well and truly palmed as I tried in vain to construct a comment they would understand
SaffronWelshDragon
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Ah no this was on here lol! An alternative word for gypsies. Annoying!
picolenicole
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I know a "charity" that isn't a "charity" at all!!!!!!
I volunteered when I was younger (in my teens) and it turned out that all the " rescues" were privately owned, by friends of the "charity"
The owners had nearly 20 Shetlands she started with 2 stallions and about 5 mares and loved to watch the foals grow up, so god knows how many they have now. Every now and then they would appear in the local paper with a "new" rescue........ that years foal or yearling saying how they need the support of public funding.
They also had kennels, for the dog warden to hold rescued dogs. Any food that was sent in was given to her own dogs and she would get unsold meet/ gone off meet for the rescues!! I even saw them feeding the rescue dogs tinned dog food that had opend itself it was that gone off.
One of the horses was owned by a girl that worked at the charity and she was telling me how everything she owned was donated to charity for that horse. All of them were the same, people would turn up once a month or so. One of them said "I own X just thought I would see how they were doing and I'm planing to sell X's foal sometime this year then put X back in foal. So we'll have a new rescue soon."
I didn't stay long after that, as aI was leaving I got told that I would have to leave anyway. As someone else two daughters wanted to volunteer and they had made a large donation to the charity. So the charity couldn't say no to this persons daughters wanting to come up and ride the horses!!!
I did eveything, from mucking out, to school, lunging, turning out bringin in, walked the dogs and cleaned the dog pens and the new volunteers just wanted to ride!!!! I was so cross, I never went back and they are still going.
I volunteered when I was younger (in my teens) and it turned out that all the " rescues" were privately owned, by friends of the "charity"
The owners had nearly 20 Shetlands she started with 2 stallions and about 5 mares and loved to watch the foals grow up, so god knows how many they have now. Every now and then they would appear in the local paper with a "new" rescue........ that years foal or yearling saying how they need the support of public funding.
They also had kennels, for the dog warden to hold rescued dogs. Any food that was sent in was given to her own dogs and she would get unsold meet/ gone off meet for the rescues!! I even saw them feeding the rescue dogs tinned dog food that had opend itself it was that gone off.
One of the horses was owned by a girl that worked at the charity and she was telling me how everything she owned was donated to charity for that horse. All of them were the same, people would turn up once a month or so. One of them said "I own X just thought I would see how they were doing and I'm planing to sell X's foal sometime this year then put X back in foal. So we'll have a new rescue soon."
I didn't stay long after that, as aI was leaving I got told that I would have to leave anyway. As someone else two daughters wanted to volunteer and they had made a large donation to the charity. So the charity couldn't say no to this persons daughters wanting to come up and ride the horses!!!
I did eveything, from mucking out, to school, lunging, turning out bringin in, walked the dogs and cleaned the dog pens and the new volunteers just wanted to ride!!!! I was so cross, I never went back and they are still going.
Quantock-cob
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There seems to be a fashion recently to take on a "rescue" horse, or a cheap poor thing from the market, feed it up, smarten it up and then sell as a much loved family pet. I have seen two of these adverts on a local FB page recently and really wanted to ask how much profit they were hoping to make from their rescue case, but thought better of it before I posted. It seems all local horsey FB pages are populated by people of below average intelligence.
Delicious_D
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Im horrible apparently *rolls eyes* oh well.
Pearlsasinger
Up in the clouds
What worries me is that the charity which rescued this horse originally and presumably housed it in some way before the prosecution decided that this lady was a suitable person to rehome it. Do they not do a home check and interview to ensure that the person taking the horse on can afford it?
Spiritedly
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From what I can gather looking on her page she 'rescued' the pony directly from the abuser who kept the ponies next door to her field. I don't understand why if the old owner has been banned they still had any ponies left? Also I don't get why feeding straight feed with no chaff is abuse 
JFTDWS
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I use it all the time, because I'm a pc sort of person... or not 
LaurenBay
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Aprently the Horse was stabled for 6 months without ever being mucked out. Although was fed, you can tell from the photo he was very well fed!
Whoopit
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I'm not clear on a few things by some previous posters.
If you can't afford to keep your horse, you send it to a charity.
The charity can't afford to keep your horse.
So what's wrong with putting to sleep if nobody can afford to keep it? It's widely known that animal shelters do it with dogs and cats as there are too many animals for homes. If nobody can afford to keep an animal and nobody wants it (and lets be honest, equines are really a much nicher market than kittens and puppies) the best thing to do it PTS.
How can struggling and scraping pennies together to keep an animal alive and well be good for anything? No it's not the horses fault it may be considered to be PTS at all but sometimes it's just got to be considered a sensible option.
If you can't afford to keep your horse, you send it to a charity.
The charity can't afford to keep your horse.
So what's wrong with putting to sleep if nobody can afford to keep it? It's widely known that animal shelters do it with dogs and cats as there are too many animals for homes. If nobody can afford to keep an animal and nobody wants it (and lets be honest, equines are really a much nicher market than kittens and puppies) the best thing to do it PTS.
How can struggling and scraping pennies together to keep an animal alive and well be good for anything? No it's not the horses fault it may be considered to be PTS at all but sometimes it's just got to be considered a sensible option.