Farrier suspended.

How horrible!

I've done a search on google after reading your thread, and found a bit more detail.

http://www.farrier-reg.gov.uk/News.asp?page=pressreleases&ID=167

These horses weren't even in the care of the farrier any more when he committed the cruel acts, which happened two weeks apart, so it must have been pre-meditated.

I don't feel that the small fee that he had to pay as compensation was large enough - the owner of the horses would have incurred a lot more money to treat the horses. I also feel that he should have been suspended for a longer period than just three months. AND he should have been made to undergo some sort of training course in farriery, maybe one which included the subject of HORSE WELFARE!!
 
This is horrendous, I can understand him having a beef with the owner but to take it out on her horses in a way in which he knows they will suffer is indefensible.

I would have banned him for life.
 
Dobiegirl said:
I would have banned him for life.
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Me too... If he moves a substantial distance in the future, he could cheerfully leave the ban behind in the history books... Depends how much effort he would want to put into restarting I guess...

IMO what he did was worse than joe bloggs doing the same thing - as a professional he should have far more awareness of the problems he was creating for the horses...

Ugh... :mad:
 
Ladydragon said:
Me too... If he moves a substantial distance in the future, he could cheerfully leave the ban behind in the history books... Depends how much effort he would want to put into restarting I guess...

IMO what he did was worse than joe bloggs doing the same thing - as a professional he should have far more awareness of the problems he was creating for the horses...

Ugh... :mad:
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Mark my words, Wellfair has a name that is now out there in the papers and elsewhere after being found guilty and this is public knowledge in the public domain. This farrier's name is memorialised on the internet and will be easily traceable. My guess is that Wellfair is finished with horses, 3 month ban or not, time for him to learn a new skill and occupation!:p
 
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Achinghips said:
Mark my words, Wellfair has a name that is now out there in the papers and elsewhere after being found guilty and this is public knowledge in the public domain. This farrier's name is memorialised on the internet and will be easily traceable. My guess is that Wellfair is finished with horses, 3 month ban or not, time for him to learn a new skill and occupation!:p
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Sadly this is something that doesn't happen across the board. A man has just been convicted and sentenced for cockfighting, mutilation, and neglect of animals, been banned for life for keeping all animals, suspended prison sentence, £50,000 fine, curfew and probation, yet the fact that he is a registered farrier has not been mentioned in the ONE news article it has reached.
 
marmalade76 said:
Blimey, I wonder what she'd done to upset him??
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Wow, she must have really pooped him off. To do it twice 2 weeks apart suggests he was festering a while, rather than being the one act that got it out of his system.

I see he wouldn't give an explanation for his actions.
Sounds very messy :o
 
How on earth can a person who deals with horses for a living, be allowed to get off with a lame slap to the wrist for causing needless suffering? He was a farrier so knew exactly what he was up to cutting into the hoof in that way. Calculated cruelness should be punished with an awful lot more than a 3 month ban.
What a wicked man.
 
Ridiculously mild ban! I would have expected him to be banned for life for that, he actually used his profession to cause hard to horses and made them pay for whatever beef he had with the owner.

I would imagine that if he moves to another part of the country it will be difficult for new clients to know what he did. I've never googled any of my new farriers' names, I'va always assumed that registration means competence and decency.
 
Booboos said:
Ridiculously mild ban! I would have expected him to be banned for life for that, he actually used his profession to cause hard to horses and made them pay for whatever beef he had with the owner.

I would imagine that if he moves to another part of the country it will be difficult for new clients to know what he did. I've never googled any of my new farriers' names, I'va always assumed that registration means competence and decency.
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Neither have I, but after seeing this case I suspect I and lots of other people will be doing so in future!
 
a 3 month suspension is ridiculous, regardless of his remorse he is a professional and used that skill to mutilate 2 horses because he was pee'd off!! sounds like a crime of passion:eek:
 
Very inadequate punishment imo. Someone capable of taking things out on an animal is not someone fit to work with animals and for a professional aware of the damage he inflicted is professional misconduct of the gravest kind imo.

It really is time animals are not 'property' in law. :(
 
I don't care what his reasons were they are irrelevant and whatever they are carry no justification whatsoever in harming the horses. He should have thrown a brick through a window instead.
 
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