Found a horse this morning

[NoltonSeaShell]

Wow when did everyone become so suspicious of everyone! I'm sure we all have stories that sound a little unbelievable (not that in saying OP story is) but are actually true! I once went up my stables and found a calf in my field, also found a pheasant in my field, even thou there are none around where I live! Told my OH and he didn't believe me, thought I'd seen a loose chicken! Even thou I actually seen the Pheasant!

I would have done the same, I would have taken the pony off her, and suffered the repercussions of it all. Would any of you actually let her walk off whipping a lame pony because you would be worried about what may or may not happen to you. I don't think I could deal with knowing that pony was being mistreated and myself doing nothing about it!

There always seems to be a select few on here, where one joins in they all follow!

I find if you haven't got anything nice to say in a persons thread dont say it at all! There is actually no need for it!

 

[Ollie's Mum]

I once found a parrot in our garage! At the time a neighbour had a little aivary and I thought it had come from there - it hadn't but he took it in! (It bit me when I caught it )

 

[Lady La La]

I realise this is an old post but...

It happened to me when I lived near Colchester. A beautiful grey steed (fully tacked) galloped out of the fog one morning. I caught him, dried him off, gave him some hay and waited for the rider. She eventually arrived after having walked for miles over tattie fields in the fog.

I'm slightly concerned that may have been me
It probably isn't of course, but something pretty identical happened when I took a tumble off my grey mare out hacking

 

[Mince Pie]

Wow when did everyone become so suspicious of everyone! I'm sure we all have stories that sound a little unbelievable (not that in saying OP story is) but are actually true!
I would have done the same, I would have taken the pony off her, and suffered the repercussions of it all. Would any of you actually let her walk off whipping a lame pony because you would be worried about what may or may not happen to you. I don't think I could deal with knowing that pony was being mistreated and myself doing nothing about it!

There always seems to be a select few on here, where one joins in they all follow!

I find if you haven't got anything nice to say in a persons thread dont say it at all! There is actually no need for it!

This!

 

[cambrica]

I once found a parrot in our garage! At the time a neighbour had a little aivary and I thought it had come from there - it hadn't but he took it in! (It bit me when I caught it )

I found a zebra finch, small and sweet in one of the stables. Rehomed it but alas it has since escaped again. Also a very underweight ferret, rehomed that too. We also have a, wait for it...Pheasant and two owls!!

Also came across a riderless horse a few weeks back in Tottenhoe. The police turned up and one of the officers was actually a polo player so he was more than willing to take her off my hands. Shame, she was nice.

 

[Moomin1]

One big problem with this story - NO 'welfare' organisation that actually brings about prosecutions would leave a horse in pain until the next day to get the vet. Reason being that if the matter went to court, and they tried to prosecute for unnecessary suffering due to the owner not providing treatment/pain relief, the organisation themselves would be up for criticism for leaving a horse in pain too!! They also wouldn't leave the horse in situ unless it was deemed unfit to travel by a vet. Photos and vet would have been the first thing that would take place - not the next day. If a potential investigation was then taking place the police would have been called to seize the horse.

If photo's have been taken and a vet called, and OP says she cannot say anymore because it is being investigated - that implies that there is a potential prosecution being looked at. In that case, this story doesn't come across as valid for the above reasons.

 

[PandorasJar]

One big problem with this story - NO 'welfare' organisation that actually brings about prosecutions would leave a horse in pain until the next day to get the vet.

:/ I phoned WHW and BHS about severely underweight horses with overgrown hooves and having broken through an internal fence with lots of obstacles (sideways wheelbarrows etc) sunken in their land. The horses had no food and only rainwater by looks of it... I reported it and they took a couple of days to get out and this had apparently been reported by several people when I did some digging.

I've also had the RSPCA (hah) out about a colony of feral (living at a womans house but no neuturing etc) cats at my last house, took several calls as was mid winter with snow on the ground and lots of kittens. They stood looking at one kitten with fleas crawling all over her and told me they had no fleas, just mange. They also aged the kittens at several months as it was winter (I would've sworn by 1 at most)

Ended up bypassing RSPCA and getting them to a local vet (remind me just to buy flea/wormer next time after that eye-watering cost) who laughed about the mange comment and aged the kittens at less than a month.

Long winded story to say that they aren't always amazing

Pan

 

[Moomin1]

:/ I phoned WHW and BHS about severely underweight horses with overgrown hooves and having broken through an internal fence with lots of obstacles (sideways wheelbarrows etc) sunken in their land. The horses had no food and only rainwater by looks of it... I reported it and they took a couple of days to get out and this had apparently been reported by several people when I did some digging.

I've also had the RSPCA (hah) out about a colony of feral (living at a womans house but no neuturing etc) cats at my last house, took several calls as was mid winter with snow on the ground and lots of kittens. They stood looking at one kitten with fleas crawling all over her and told me they had no fleas, just mange. They also aged the kittens at several months as it was winter (I would've sworn by 1 at most)

Ended up bypassing RSPCA and getting them to a local vet (remind me just to buy flea/wormer next time after that eye-watering cost) who laughed about the mange comment and aged the kittens at less than a month.

Long winded story to say that they aren't always amazing

Pan

Leaving cats with fleas isn't the same as leaving a horse that is crippled lame and a possible prosecution though. With regard taking several days to get too - yes sometimes it does because the average officer can have up to 100 jobs on their joblist - many of which sound much worse than horses being underweight etc.

There is no way that a horse which is the subject of a potential prosecution would be left with no vet attention by a proper welfare charity who is well up on the procedure of investigating these things. The officer would get reprimanded severely for that and the case would be seriously jeopardised.

 

[PandorasJar]

Leaving cats with fleas isn't the same as leaving a horse that is crippled lame and a possible prosecution though. With regard taking several days to get too - yes sometimes it does because the average officer can have up to 100 jobs on their joblist - many of which sound much worse than horses being underweight etc.

There is no way that a horse which is the subject of a potential prosecution would be left with no vet attention by a proper welfare charity who is well up on the procedure of investigating these things. The officer would get reprimanded severely for that and the case would be seriously jeopardised.

Swing and a miss. My point was that they don't all know the tail from the head.

2 off the horses in the field were lame from hooves curling back on themselves. The horses were skin and bone and one was a shetland which you could practically blow down. The fence line was insecure and they bordered a dangerous A road which has had several fatalities from horse and donkey escapes in the past couple of years.

I'd say it was an urgent case.

Pan

 

[Moomin1]

Swing and a miss. My point was that they don't all know the tail from the head.

2 off the horses in the field were lame from hooves curling back on themselves. The horses were skin and bone and one was a shetland which you could practically blow down. The fence line was insecure and they bordered a dangerous A road which has had several fatalities from horse and donkey escapes in the past couple of years.

I'd say it was an urgent case.

Pan

No you may not get an officer which knows much about horses - but they are fully trained in prosecution procedure. Prosecution procedure when suffering is suspected is that a vet is called and the horse is not left suffering any longer than necessary. They would not leave it until the following day, and certainly not in the place where it could well be lifted by the owners overnight.

With regard the example you gave - absolutely that is urgent. But an example of a few more urgent sounding jobs are for instance - a horse which is collapsed in a field, no owner contactable, a rta animal which is lying in the middle of a busy road, an animal which is bleeding heavily. Unfortunately not all 'urgent' jobs can be got to for a few days - the DESPERATE ones sometimes have to come first. Many days officers can be on their way to deal with a job and an emergency as described above can come in - they then get diverted to that one, then to another one and before they know it it's the end of the day.

 

[Montyforever]

I'm sorry this must be rubbish a horse with laminitis would not walk for a mile regardless of wether it was alone or not!
My mare is the biggest stress head ever and when she had laminitis she wouldn't have moved even if you were driving at her in a tractor

 

[Amy567]

Maybe it wasn't laminitis, just foot sore from the mile long canter or something (I know, not very realistic, but it could happen )? No one will ever know as seems the OP forgot about this thread a while back