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It frustrates me to be honest. I believe that the figure they want raised to buy a farm for them is £600,000. Then there will be the ongoing costs of care for the horses and other animals. And how are the people who chose to give up their jobs to start taking in horses to live? Would they have to be paid something as well? I'm afraid I think it's madness. Can't a reputable charity get involved for the sake of the horses?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ss-sacrificed-charmed-life-animals-loves.html
 
It is close run whether she is a saviour or a hoarder. She doesnt work and has no money to pay to keep the animals. Instead of donations, them both getting jobs would best help their finances.
 
I'm assuming this isn't a registered charity?

There are some very well meaning people out there but often they take on far too much. I cringe when I see some of the horses who are "rescued". Some I believe are merely using rescue as a cover up for buying cheap horses then selling on at a profit. Others rescue mares and then breed for them - whether the mares are physically up to it or not and whether they should actually be bred from at all. The cost of them being saved...

It's a huge area and I have to say that there is a big part of me that feels this family has sacrificed everything to try to support the animals in their care. I hope some of their celebrity supporters will help safeguard the animals. And yes, a job with some income would help them too.
 
If that were just a normal person without the history she has, they would end up getting their animals seized.

its a very noble idea, but its not a horse refuge anymore. That poor shire.

mind you, where she lives sounds wonderful to where i used to live, we didnt even have water in the winter and often had to scrape frost off of our pillows and bedroom walls!
 
nativetyponies said:
She is clearly in over her head..and not recently either.

i think she should admit defeat.

...that "area" where the Shire is is nothing short of squalid... :(

why should people bail her out?
she..and her husband..should get jobs and pay for her pets


OK..I may not be eating beans on taost at 10pm on christmas day, but all my animals will be catered for before myself and my husband sit down for our meal..isnt that what we all do as a matter of course?
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I absolutely agree with you NP.
I 'could' at a push take in 2 or 3 more horses or a few other animals and still survive, but I dont because I cant afford physically, mentally or monitarily afford to.
The way the horses in the 1st picture, and the shire in the hurdle pen, are being kept isnt good enough, the bedding isnt sufficient and the shire has blatently being lying in tick feaces - you can see it on his coat.
Im sorry, she should be looking at getting help in, and going out to work, its borderline hoarding....
 
Well her clothes dont look ''filthy''as written in the article, and unless all her nails have turned black due to frostbite then she has nail varnish on. Her feet have turned purple, well shes walking on them well enough.
She is the woman who was appealing for funds to buy a farm a while back, Katie Price went down there and it was in all the papers.
Her site says they have ''put off'' applying for charity status until everything is sorted out and that they won an award in March for the best horse and shire rescue. I doubt highly they will win it again.
I cannot understand how a refuge with such high profile backers and surely the proceeds from their last appeal, is now so down on its luck again. I thought they had raised a good sum towards buying the farm.
Sorry I don't believe half of whats been written.

Is that whats left of the shires hay in the front of the muck he is living in? Poor sod.
 
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And correct me if Im wrong, but dont those boots look like Le-Chameau? If they want to see filthy clothes and frostbitten fingers and toes, they should come and interview me... ive got on:- a pair or thermals (with holes) and a pair of jeans (with holes), 2 pairs of 'sunday' socks on (holes in different area's) a vest that Ive had since I was at school, a polo neck that a friend of mums gave me (so hand-me-downs)a jumper that I got from Primark 4 years ago and a fleece that my bosses mum gave me when she was having a chuck out. Theres no heating in our house - other than the fire in the kitchen to give us luke warm water and barely melt the ice on the radiators and the log burner in the sitting room - and we all have elec blankets on our beds as the rooms are so cold.
We manage by economising, and saying no to the sob stories we hear, you cant hoard animals like that and expect other people to give donations so that you can feed them!
 
Utterly ridiculous-Sell any saleable ones to good homes. Rehome all others if possible and if not pts, then go get a job and finance any animals off that.
 
It makes me sad, I'm sure that this started off with the best of intentions, but the result has been to put the animals back in jeopardy. The article says they sold their £200,000 home to fund the project. That's nothing in that part of the country, it would buy a 3 bedroom semi if you're lucky, certainly not a property with land to support a rescue home.
However, if someone would like to give me £600,000k I will go and buy a property in a cheaper part of the country, with plenty of acreage, and take all the horses off her hands. I've come across several animal collectors labelling themselves up as some sort of heroes, and now it just makes me cross. What's sort of worse is that they are actually managing to raise some substantial funds, but not enough to keep going, so the people donating the money are throwing good money after bad aren't they?
 
Would she not have been better off keeping her job and donating large amounts of money to a registered charity?

What happens to the horses once they have passed though her?

....I will take the beautiful heavy horse!!!
 
i never thought id say this but i think shes being incredibly selfish
it seems shes doing it all in an effort to gain some form of self depricating celebrity status??? this is not rescuing IMHO this is hoarding and poor quality of care

i mean that 'stall' the shire is in is TINY, filthy, wholey unsuitable and if that were you or i we would probably be reported.
she doesnt look too bad for someone living such a meagre life, certainly not purple and wasting away as one would expect.

rant i know and perhaps a little unfair, but i dont see a good suitable rescue sanctuary i see someone way in over their head.
 
i think her heart is in the right place but she is misguided. She needs to rehome and rehabiltate as many as she can and get a job or the partner gets a job. I agree the Shire needs to be in a much bigger home.
 
I'm incredably suspicious about how clean she looks for someone on the edge of poverty... her hair is trim, neat, well brushed and very obviously dyed/highlighted (no greys!). her skin is pink and fresh. Her white and blue striped shirt is white.

When I was working on a farm I would bathe every day, and still look like wurzle gummage at the end of the day! I broke my washing machine, and hand washing stained all my whites with the muck of the farm.

The only things living in squalor on that farm are the horses. Someone rescue them already!
 
Well-meaning but definitely misguided.
There does seem to be a rash of people recently who expect others to provide them with a home and land to keep animals. I wish someone had done that for us!
 
nativetyponies said:
She is clearly in over her head..and not recently either.

i think she should admit defeat.

...that "area" where the Shire is is nothing short of squalid... :(

why should people bail her out?
she..and her husband..should get jobs and pay for her pets


OK..I may not be eating beans on taost at 10pm on christmas day, but all my animals will be catered for before myself and my husband sit down for our meal..isnt that what we all do as a matter of course?
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Totally agree with NP.

And, her clothes didn't look filthy to me, she's got make up on and her hair is done (and dyed as someone else pointed out). Her "frostbitten" fingers look normal colour to me, and she's even got nail polish on!

That poor shire!

She's selfish and deluded. People like her think they are being kind, and really can't see that their perfect horse "sanctuary" isn't so perfect after all. I just hope she sees sense and gives the horses up. I take my hat off to her for trying, but if she was going to take on that many animals then surely she should have secured the grazing first?

If she can't afford to keep them, she shouldn't take them in.
 
did no-one pick up on the rather humerous faux-pa?

"Animal lover: Sara set up the sanctuary The Horse Refuse in 1994 when she worked in the House Of Lords"
 
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