Bit of a rant!!! Sorry!!

[f_s_]

Now, I don't usually post rants, but I've just heard, yet again, an awful story, about people buying horses!

My friend has just told me that a young girl her daughter knows, bought a section A 6month old colt at a sale for....£26.00!!

Well, £26 might be a bargain, if you knew anything about horses/ponies, and knew what you were doing, but, two weeks later she is "fed up" with him, and wants rid!!

Luckily, my friend (knowledgeable, and with the facilities to keep ponies), has said she will have him.

I just don't understand!!! The poor foal!!

I suppose my point is this: The more we breed indiscriminately, they more the market has for numpties to buy these animals at a nominal cost, and disregard them when they can't be bothered.

Please, please, do NOT breed unless you have a known market for your horses and ponies!!!!

 

[Chestnutmare]

or i'd add to what you have said and dont buy if your going to get bored after a couple of weeks esp buying a baby for £26...thats shocking glad foalie has now got a good stable home to be brought up at....

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Poor foal

The trouble is no matter what you do you can't do anything about the stupidity of some members of the human race.

 

[missieh]

Totally agree - and those kind of people are the ones that drive this over-breeding, not to mention over-importing of horses.

We have too many on this little island that we live on!

Never was there such a good time to begin a career in "putting wrong horses right"! Joking aside I think that people should be licenced before they can own a horse - yes, I know that it could become exploited just like the failed passport system, but something has to be done.

 

[f_s_]

Unfortunately , that is so true Slinky!

I just keep thinking of all the others that are out there, shoved from pillar to post!

I suppose you can't change the world, or sort out every problem, I just found it so....irresponsible, I suppose

 

[Hippona]

Too many numpties about......

a girl I know is on her 3rd horse within a year....parents buy her young horses even though she is a novice rider and hasn't the confidence to handle them appropriately.....its never her fault, always the pony + any advice offered is ignored.

Shame for the ponies....someone else has to then come along and sort them out.

 

[MrMeldrew]

Oh this is very familar

I keep my horses on a DIY yard and several times over the last couple years liveries have 'rescued' foals from the local market. Bunged them in a stable - usually not far from my horses - for a couple days and then turned them out - again, near my horses. Then 'played ' with them for a bit, got bored and sold them on probably to end up in a market again somehwre down the line because they haven't actually achieved anything with poor foals

Makes me mad and sad

 

[Chestnutmare]

its heartbraking, I'd love to have another horse again but I cant afford to get another yet but the prices of them at sales is just silly prices...if I had my own land i'd probably end up buying a huge amount and let them live happy being spoilt to bits...all my animals are spoilt them 1st me and OH later...

 

[f_s_]

I know what you mean, I do have my own place, and find it very, very hard to turn away from these situations.

My friend also, luckily, has her own yard. We were saying that it's heartbreaking, but, if you keep taking them you'll just allow them to keep breeding them!!

I have bought with my heart, I can't deny it, and luckily it has turned out right, but have been lucky to have the ability to do it.

It just such a sad situation, and makes me very

 

[Chestnutmare]

shame there isnt a way of checking people getting ponies at sales or the like...and yes stop breeding them to make a fast buck or two the poor little mites are the ones that suffer when they are no longer wanted...breed for order maybe??

 

[Aniseed]

Somebody I used to work for "rescued" two dartmoor foals, which then got put in a stable and left for about two months. She used to go in a muck out with them still in the stable but they weren't handled or taken out at all. They eventually decided to separate them by herding them into different stables and one got so stressed out it must have had a heart attack and dropped down dead. Admitedly there are plenty of numpties out there, but experienced people should know better.

 

[The_snoopster]

I heard a story once of a man selling 2 section A colts for £12 within 2 weeks these ponies were given away to a person that thought he could keep them in his back garden !
Then they nocked on my door because he had had enough of the evil little tw*ts, he had never owned a pony in his life and totally had no idea they were just terrified. I found them a lovely home who kept them till they were three then rehomed them as childrens ponies so a happy ending for those two.