Any ideas? Passporting query plus gelding has balls!

[PennywithHenry]

My sister in law bought a young pony from a 'private home' though I use the term loosely as I have since googled her phone number and she always seems to have a bit for sale...

The bony was a bit on the skinny side, but seemed nice and quiet enough, and she paid for it there and then, paying extra to have it delivered the following weekend.

The following weekend the pony arrived, only the seller had forgotten his passport. She said she'd pop it in and off she went. A few weeks passed and there was no sign of the passport, my sister in law got in contact with the seller and was told she'd forgotten all about it and it would be posted on, a few more weeks have passed and now the seller isn't answering phone calls, and when my sister in law went down to collect the passport in person she couldn't find her. She took the actual name of the road though, so that she had the full address and could get the postcode from the RM site...

Now the pony has been acting really naughty, she wasn't too concerned, after all he's put on weight and is reasonably young....and now a testicle has arrived

She's having the vet out to see what's going on.....I don't want any criticism etc, this isn't my pony, she asked me what she should do and I didn't know, I suggested that she get the vet to see if there's only one, if he was sold as a gelding when he's actually a colt or if one's been missed...but other than getting the vets expert opinion I had no other ideas...so I said I'd ask on here. I've tried ringing the woman from my phone and withheld, left a vague voicemail simply asking if she could call or text me back (she doesn't know me) but heard nothing

Soooooooooo any ideas?

 

[lastresort]

Get the vet out he might have dropped one and to give him the once over and while he is there get him to do a passport for him. She should not have sold the horse without one really but never mind. They can also scan him to see if he has a microchip.

If you cant get hold of her theres not alot you can do really

Good luck

 

[kombikids]

oh no - i am afraid that i dont have any useful advice other than to sympathise with your friend, cant believe people operate like this still selling horses. if it is a dealer then she would have come back under the sale of goods act is its not a described. hoep you sort it out ok.

 

[Angua2]

this has happened to some one I knew!

basically the horse was sold as a gelding but was actually so young/ late developing that the testicles had not dropped yet.

They had to waid for everything to drop, kept him seperate from any mares and then had him gelded.

 

[Gingernags]

I'd have a word with trading standards - if this woman sells over a certain number of horses in a year and it can be proved with adverts - then she IS a dealer whether she says she is or not. if they decide she is a dealer, your friend can then get her reported for selling with no passport, and for selling a gelding that isn't! Get vet to check and get a report.

Thats where I'd start anyway.

 

[cellie]

I agree with gingermare.Friend was sold horse with false passport from a dealer.Its a £5000 fine and trading standards have took up the case for them .Id contact trading standards they have been really helpful with friend.

 

[dozzie]

We bought a gelding many years ago who was in fact a colt. When we got the vet out to geld him he had only one testicle and the vet found scar tissue so someone had had a go already! So he had been gelded...just badly! And in those days, with where he came from, it was unlikely a vet had done the op!!

So it could be that the seller genuinely thought it was a gelding and then the second one dropped LOL!

However having said that it is still odd the seller is not answering the phone...

 

[JM07]

Trading Standards..

give them all the details, no passport, travelled said animal without a passport, that she sold possibly, a colt, which was discribed as a gelding, previous adverts in her name which may point to her "dealing", and if she has an operators licence if delivery was paid for??