Disgusted! Dragon Driving

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Three 2 year olds for sale in awful condition, all shod and broken to ride and drive! What is wrong with some people!?

Quote: "Has been through town centres, he is frightend of nothing"

Thats because he is starving mate!! He hasn't got the energy to react to anything :mad:

http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/search.php?k=07901+718543&test[]=0&t=all&p=2&h=0&s=P&search=Search

Poor little colt :(

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I've passed their details on to the WHW.
 
oh he does look poor. Bless hopefully will find a nice home that will feed him up and let him grow. This is increasingly a common sight sadly.
 
I agree it is terrible and should be reported and stopped.

But it is not Dragon Driving's fault,any more than it would be Horse-mart's or H&H's. They should not advertise these poor babies being abused, but they are not doing the abusing. Better to save your anger for those doing the abusing. But maybe we should do something about letting the advertising medium that we think it is disgraceful they take these adverts and put pressure on them not to. A petition or something? If the people who advertise they poor ponies can't find anyone to take their adverts then they may think again about breeding and treating these babies like that. Hit them where it will hurt most, in their pockets.
FDC
 
Fany Du Champ said:
I agree it is terrible and should be reported and stopped.

But it is not Dragon Driving's fault,any more than it would be Horse-mart's or H&H's. They should not advertise these poor babies being abused, but they are not doing the abusing.
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Unfortunately this type of advert is quite a common occurence on DD. I can honestly say I have never seen an animal in this state being advertised on H&H or Horsemart. It is a very sad state of affairs. I agree DD are not the abusers, but they do allow these adverts on their site, which IMO advocates such 'abuse'.

It is the same trader for all three 2yo, hopefully WHW will have a word with them.
 
*dons tin hat*
I hate to say that whilst I personally wouldnt be driving ponies at 2 yrs old and they arent up to my standards of how I would keep a horse, there isnt actually anything in those pics that says to me they are 'in awful condition' I really dont think WHW or anyone else will do anything about this.
 
Vizslak said:
*dons tin hat*
I hate to say that whilst I personally wouldnt be driving ponies at 2 yrs old and they arent up to my standards of how I would keep a horse, there isnt actually anything in those pics that says to me they are 'in awful condition' I really dont think WHW or anyone else will do anything about this.
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No, I actually agree with you. They are by no means a 'cruelty' case, but I think a word in their shell like is definately needed.
 
Well they are certainly not welfare cases how they are being brought on as youngsters is a disgrace.
I am afraid a word to these people who are willing to bring on horses in this way would be a waste of time.

I have thought for a long time the sites that take these adverts should put their foot down not only on people who have very dubious ways of selling youngsters, but also horsemart may not have ads like this but them and horse and hound both run adverts from dealers who have been prosecuted by trading standards and even the police.
It is really time all sites that take money or otherwise and advertise livestock especially should take some responsibility to protect the animals they are advertising and the buyers who may be looking at their site.
 
Vizslak said:
*dons tin hat*
I hate to say that whilst I personally wouldnt be driving ponies at 2 yrs old and they arent up to my standards of how I would keep a horse, there isnt actually anything in those pics that says to me they are 'in awful condition' I really dont think WHW or anyone else will do anything about this.
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May not be actual abuse but is surely storing up a lot of trouble for those youngsters when they get older and arthritic from trotting on hard surfaces.

I agree probably the WHW can't do anything, but they may well end up some where like that, if not worse, when they are no longer able to work!
FDC
 
Yes it is the advertisers fault. If you are offended in anyway contact the
The ASA is the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all media, including marketing on websites. We work to ensure ads are legal, decent, honest and truthful by applying the Advertising Code
http://www.asa.org.uk/
These webstes make money if not from the ad but the traffic the web site creates. I contacted them about an ad on Horsemart, had complained already about the ad to Horsemart with no effect. E-mail the ASA ad gone within the hour.
 
My God - when I saw the picture I thought it was from a third world country - not from UK. How can anyone who loves horses treat them like this. Maybe they rely on people buying them to save them rather than for what they can do.

Definately needs to have something done by authorities. This should not go on in an animal loving nation.
 
honetpot said:
Yes it is the advertisers fault. If you are offended in anyway contact the
The ASA is the UK's independent regulator of advertising across all media, including marketing on websites. We work to ensure ads are legal, decent, honest and truthful by applying the Advertising Code
http://www.asa.org.uk/
These webstes make money if not from the ad but the traffic the web site creates. I contacted them about an ad on Horsemart, had complained already about the ad to Horsemart with no effect. E-mail the ASA ad gone within the hour.
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Thanks, never knew about them.
FDC
 
Actually I would say that the little horse whose picture is posted on here does look like welfare case. Poor little scrap :0(
 
Poor ponies!!! All three of them are only 2 and pulling a trap with scrap on (as the advert says) through town. Im sorry im not biased to anyone but the are definitley gypsies (not all gypsies, travellers are bad). I want to go to buy them! I live in Cheshire and a stretch of road by me is prone to travellers with horses similar to these racing up the road with traps! The traffic has to move out of the way and they are usually driven by young boys!!!
 
Hope you get further with WHW than we have. They said we were too far away when a field full of starving horses was reported to them. RSPCA needs more evidence with pictures which we have. Good luck.
 
Not entirely same subject but my mare went to a stallion advertised on DD (spotty in Kingston Seymour so folk know not to use) and came back not in foal but with a lovely dose of ringworm & a revolting internal infection :-((
 
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