Bad Horse Transport! **Pics**

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This is a photo my uncle took in Panama.

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Poor little thing. I'm just worried that it wouldn't fit under than bar in front!!
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And here's a nice one, that I think really captures the culture
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Anyone else got any examples of bad horse transport, hoepfully from foreign countries, as I like to think we aren't quite so backwards!!
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well... i am in the process of looking at mini shetlands... and was talking with my hubby about transporting one home if we found one... it seems daft to take a big horse lorry to pick up something less than 30inches tall... we did wonder if it would fit in the back of our car...

by the way, this is only a semi-joke...
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Have seen similar to that before. There was a documentary about a trail ride across Europe and Asia and they transported the horses over a border in a similar fashion but they had to get them up onto a huge boulder and then jump onto the flat bed lorry...mental!
 
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well... i am in the process of looking at mini shetlands... and was talking with my hubby about transporting one home if we found one... it seems daft to take a big horse lorry to pick up something less than 30inches tall... we did wonder if it would fit in the back of our car...

by the way, this is only a semi-joke...
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I have seen this happening.
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When I was a teenager the yard I was on done monthly unaffilated shows, someone had a minuture shetland doing in hand class they must have also been a black cab driver as cab pulls up on show ground and out comes this pony
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OMG! I don't think I'd have taken a picture either, Camerton! That is unbelievable! I don't know a thing about towing but I know a Golf couldn't pull one small horse let alone two big 'uns! Let's hope it was a dire emergency and they had to get the horses to the vet/away from that awful person ASAP!
 
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I have seen this happening.
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When I was a teenager the yard I was on done monthly unaffilated shows, someone had a minuture shetland doing in hand class they must have also been a black cab driver as cab pulls up on show ground and out comes this pony
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Am sooo sorry but I just had to have a little giggle at the thought of a pony coming out of a black cab!
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At least they are a little more roomy than your average family saloon!
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In the south of Spain I often saw horse being moved in trucks like this. The trucks working life was to move crates of fruit and veg so they had sides about 2ft high then a hoop frame over the top and a tarp cover over the hoops. Drive lorry up to high piece of ground, lead first horse on and turn it across lorry and tie to the hoop frame. Tie a rope across lorry next to the horse (that's your partition!). Lead on next horse and repeat until all horses aboard. When you arrive at destination look for high ground to unload or, failing that a big pile of sand on a building site to jump them down on.

Oh,and shetlands in the back of Kangoo type vans with nose out of window as van hammers down motorway at about 80mph.
 
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I have seen this happening.
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When I was a teenager the yard I was on done monthly unaffilated shows, someone had a minuture shetland doing in hand class they must have also been a black cab driver as cab pulls up on show ground and out comes this pony
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We had a tiny shetland pony arrive at one of our shows to do the fancy dress class in the back of a Landrover discovery, fully dressed up as a tiger - I just wish I had my camera!
 
Please dont jump on me for this as knew nothing about it till it had happened. My dad transported a miniture horse in the back of his works van a few years ago for his Ex, she sat in the back with it and had pened it in with bales of hay!!
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I will add that when i found out i went balistic with him!!!
 
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No picture as I was too gobsmacked but yesterday I did see a big ifor williams trailer with two big horses in the back being towed by a VW golf!!!
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I saw a big Equitrek one recently being towed by a Passat! At speed too, at least 70mph, and swaying from side to side. Terrifying.
 
I've seen a shetland bought at Holmfirth sale, transported home in the back of a flatback with kids and dogs also sitting on the back of the lorry! I will say that the pony didn't seem the least bit fazed by the procedure but I don't know how far they had to go.
 
I lived in africa and ours always travelled in open cattle trucks. All went in head to tail with a metal bar in between. They all travelled really well as knew nothing else.
 
Years ago used to regularly travel our minature sheltand stallion to shows in the back of a transit van, he was well padded in with hay and probably much safer than in the back of a large horse trailer. In all honesty he was no bigger/heavier than some large breeds of dog so what is the difference?
 
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Years ago used to regularly travel our minature sheltand stallion to shows in the back of a transit van, he was well padded in with hay and probably much safer than in the back of a large horse trailer. In all honesty he was no bigger/heavier than some large breeds of dog so what is the difference?

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The problem is that when you have to brake the pony comes crashing through the front of the car to kill the passengers. Horseboxes and trailers are constructed with this in mind and MUST have special re-inforcement to prevent this from happening. Large dogs should also have a proper divider between them and the passenger area otherwise they can be equally dangerous (little dogs should also be properly restrained for their own safety otherwise they fly through the windscreen).
 
My friend showed me some printouts her friend had sent over from Canada. It had a Shetland foal in a dog cage in the back of a pickup! It was fine and was happily eating some hay provided.
 
When I was in Shri Lanka I saw elephants being travelled like that! (only in bigger trucks and facing forward) I wish I had a picture.
 
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When I was in Shri Lanka I saw elephants being travelled like that! (only in bigger trucks and facing forward) I wish I had a picture.

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Definately bigger trucks!!
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What is wrong with the photo of the horse???? This is a perfectly standard means of horse transport in South America!!!

In the 8 yrs I lived in Chile I never heard of one getting injured in the back of a ute. I don't know if it is becasue they are gererally sure footed pony types put into these situations, but they are incredibly good at bracing/sorting them selves out for the trip, and the drivers do tend to take care braking/cornering etc.
A few horror stories from horses being loaded into lorries off unstable loading ramps though. And some incredible athletics on behalf of the horses, to get into the lorries off 'unsual loading ramps'.
The opposite end of the spectrum was the Enduracne team called the "Hard Bone Team" (honestly!) who had a lift (like on moving trucks) on the back of the lorry so that they didn't have to worry about ramp issues.

While I realise most people in Eng would be shocked, you have to understand that it is a different world. Only the VERY rich minority have 'posh' trailers/lorries with padded dividers and ramps.
The majority of people rely on their horse(s) as a means of income and many still farm with a horse and plough. The only time they may need to transport a horse (and be unable to ride it there and back) is to/from the sales. And why consider spending $ you don't have on what they see as totally unessecary?

I don't mean to sound rude just hope you understand.
 
I saw the same with Elephants, three trucks in a row with a elephant in each going up a mountian road (single track) with a shear drop on one side, this was on the way to Inle Lake in Burma!
 
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The problem is that when you have to brake the pony comes crashing through the front of the car to kill the passengers. Horseboxes and trailers are constructed with this in mind and MUST have special re-inforcement to prevent this from happening. Large dogs should also have a proper divider between them and the passenger area otherwise they can be equally dangerous (little dogs should also be properly restrained for their own safety otherwise they fly through the windscreen).


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Whilst I totally agree and would not do this now,to put this in perspective the vehicle was old enough that no seatbelts were fitted so in event of a major crash we'd have all gone through the windscreen anyway(this way over 20 years ago)
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The vehicle did have mesh fitted between us and the back and was regularly used for transporting sheep. I'm sure there are a million regualtions against this now!!
 
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