Have you ever been reported to the welfare authorities?

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I am hoping this poll will stay annon.

I am asking this because I know someone currently with a very aged tb that she cannot CANNOT get weight on. All the other horses in the yard look SUPER but she is so worried, not becasue the horse is loosing weight (he is under the vet who says it is age/cushings related and totally under control) She is worried though because he does look poor qne there was an article in H&H about someone who got taken to court for the RSPCA for the same reason.

He is on good grass/adlib hayledge/three feeds a day.

BTW this is his last sumer
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Yep, because my 2 ponies were turned out in winter with no rugs on
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Luckily the RSPCA turned up as my sister was putting their hay out in the field - he asked if we had upset anyone.
 
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Yep, because my 2 ponies were turned out in winter with no rugs on
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Luckily the RSPCA turned up as my sister was putting their hay out in the field - he asked if we had upset anyone.

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Bloody hell I turned Bruce out Fully clipped last christmas after he shredded his rug for the fourth time!

EVIL!
 
Yes! For cats, not horses... I used to take in RSPCA cats, the ones that no one else would want. They had a great time and I worked through their medical problems (RSPCA paid all the vets bills for them) Anyway, they looked a bit unsavoury to say the least. Tatty coats, missing eyes, limps, tatty ears, toothless, tailless etc, etc. I got reported because I had 'at least six dreadful looking cats' The RSPCA had to explain to my neighbour that the cats belonged... to them, and I was fostering them! It is good that folks care, and it was quite right for my neighbour to report them!

As for horses, you find it happens quite often that someone aquires a rescue or buys a run down horse... then someone reports it. So, all your friend can do is get the vet to visit ( I am sure the horse is under the vet anyway) Then when/if the horse is reported she can simply explain that the horse IS being correctly cared for and is under the vet... all will be well. It is good that neglected looking animals are reported. The RSPCA are DELIGHTED that people take them on and seek correct treatment for them. Your friend has nothing to fear.
 
There was a lot of planning issues on the farm they were being kept at, so I think it had more to do with that than the actual Ponies.
 
I have been threatened with being reported, not over a horse though over my dogs
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They are in perfect health and absolutely adore me but apaprently keeping a puppy outside and telling them off when they do wrong is cruelty to animals and I should just let them be 'dogs', Whatever was my response. They never did report me though. Bloody tree hugger.
 
I can't believe how many people are saying on the poll that they have been reported in the past. I don't know anyone who has ever been reported. I must be living in a bubble! Sounds like people are sometimes too quick to react and often report for completely the wrong reasons.
 
Yes and Yes
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We used to have a footpath running between our 2 fields and I admit I got a little fed up of every other rambler asking why my horses wore 'masks'(Fly masks!)

So I started saying it was because they were so difficult to catch(
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I guess one or more rambler didn't suss I am a sarky madame LOL
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I got reported for a pony I rescued. He had serious issues and was on his way to the meat man before I decided to give him one last chance before shooting him. He was impossible to catch in the stable (we had to corner him with straw bales and sedate him IM with a huge amount of sedative just to get a headcollar on him) and getting his feet up to get them trimmed (even when heavily sedated) was impossible. Having discussed it with my vets, it was agreed that as pony was being kept in the stable while we sorted out his handling issues we would leave his feet until he was easier to manage despite the fact that they were dreadfully long as it would have been dangerous to force the issue. Somebody who I had stopped from riding one of my horses at about the time this was going on (she was too heavy for him and wasn't in my opinion a good enough rider for him) took it upon themselves to report me to the ILPH. The ILPH came out & at first were pretty heavy handed with me, but when I made it obvious that I'm well aware of the implications on tendons etc of feet being so long & also that my vets were involved, the ILPH actually ended thanking me for doing their job for them by taking this pony on! They didn't come out for any follow up visits either.

I have now given the pony in question to my friend who absolutely adores him. He is being ridden, he hacks out, he will jump 2'6" (not bad for a 13.2) and my friend wants to take him on a few fun rides this summer, he will pick his feet up for the farrier and is turned out without a headcollar on. He is a different pony & I'm very glad that I gave him a chance even thought it meant getting reported.
 
yes unfortunatly...each time the inspector from both the rspca and the ilph have said what a wasted journey it was..

we are currently unfortunatly having a legal wrangling and the many reports that have been going on about us is to try to discredit us in some way..

the authorities now know about the situation and are aware of whats going on..

we now have the ilph inspector on speed dial!!

the last time he was called was to a poor boy who was in cardiac failure and was pts on monday just gone..

trouble is...i would prefer people to come and talk to people on the yard before taking it into their own hands to report..it wastes moiney and time that these charities dont have and cuases an awful lot of anguish for us.....i can understand if the people on the yard were reticent and rude about the situation however we have nothing to hide and if people are worried about a particular horse then shouldnt they find the reason before slandering and making troublw.....

emotive subject for me!!sorry
 
the goldfish in my pond at my last house got me reported. i kid you not. i had one that used to occasionally flip onto a lily-pad, flop around in the sun for a few seconds, and then go back down in the water (which was about 2' deep.) heaven knows why it did it. someone reported me for that, said it didn't have enough water... and the r.s.p.c.a. inspector managed to let all my jack russells out when he came to check, when i was out, and opened the garden gate. they were out for hours and it was a miracle they weren't run over. i was beyond LIVID and the r.s.p.c.a. refused to tell me who had reported it, even though whoever had must have been trespassing to see the pond!
re: the underweight mare - your friend needs to get her blood tested. there will be a reason why she isn't gaining any weight, it's not just "old age", i've had fat + happy oldies. depending on the results, she might need to go to Rainbow Bridge sooner rather than later. sorry if that's harsh, but it's true.
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the goldfish in my pond at my last house got me reported. i kid you not. i had one that used to occasionally flip onto a lily-pad, flop around in the sun for a few seconds, and then go back down in the water (which was about 2' deep.) heaven knows why it did it. someone reported me for that, said it didn't have enough water... and the r.s.p.c.a. inspector managed to let all my jack russells out when he came to check, when i was out, and opened the garden gate. they were out for hours and it was a miracle they weren't run over. i was beyond LIVID and the r.s.p.c.a. refused to tell me who had reported it, even though whoever had must have been trespassing to see the pond!
re: the underweight mare - your friend needs to get her blood tested. there will be a reason why she isn't gaining any weight, it's not just "old age", i've had fat + happy oldies. depending on the results, she might need to go to Rainbow Bridge sooner rather than later. sorry if that's harsh, but it's true.
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There are reasons (its something to do with cushings and there are reasons per the vet which is why he is off to horse heaven at the end of the summer - as per the vet)

He is nearly 30 and happy in himself you call him and he comes trotting over (still sound) and then straight past you becasue his sight is not what it used to be....

Very special boy indeed.
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I have 2 horses on 5 acres of very meadowy grass and the field adjacent to 2 sides are farmed and have sheep grazing. they are very rich pasture and of course my greedy pig warmblood leans over all the fences to nibble at what juicy grass he can get to (especially if I've got the electric fence up to restrict their grazing). So the grumpy farmer threatened to report me to the RSPCA as 'my horse must be starving to always be leaning over the fence'.?! I told him to feel free, would've loved to have seen the faces when they turned up to see my 'welfare case'!! He mustn't have heard of the phrase' the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'!!
 
Get something from the vet in writing to say horse is under supervision from them and a contact at the vets or you could have problems
 
Yes we get rported evey winter because of our cattle. The field they are in has a lovely warm barn but floods as does all the land round here.

Unfortunately it is in the village and the cows like to go paddling. So locals ring the RSPCA to tell them they are drowing.

We then get visit from Defra guy who knows they are fine but has to come out and check.

Problem is some of the people round here think they should be wrapped up in cotton wool.
 
Yep, apparantly my horse had no water in her field.....The nosy barsteward who reported me obviousy didn't see the 9 full buckets of water in another part of the field
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Apparently two of my ponies were the talk of the village last winter for having been abandoned (with their rugs on) and "looking very poor". Much debate was supposed to have been had about my "starving" them as I wasn't supplying any hay and whether to report me or not as "they'd been out so long their shoes had come off".

Here are pictures of the two poor half-starved beasts! They'd been brought in overnight as the farrier was coming to do their regular trim, together with my shod horses. The grey has never been shod and the chestnut is retired and has only ever been shod in front in the five years I've owned him.

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The vet came the next day to see one of my others and nearly wet himself laughing at my "skinny" animals.
 
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Yes we get rported evey winter because of our cattle. The field they are in has a lovely warm barn but floods as does all the land round here.

Unfortunately it is in the village and the cows like to go paddling. So locals ring the RSPCA to tell them they are drowing.

We then get visit from Defra guy who knows they are fine but has to come out and check.

Problem is some of the people round here think they should be wrapped up in cotton wool.

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OMG - what would they have made of this!

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Atrocious. People like you should not be allowed to have animals, and should be run out of the village on a hurdle. Never seen anything as pitiful as that poor emaciated dapple grey....

*gives up effort to fake outrage*

God, that grey is gorgeous. I want to come and steal him from you.
 
I voted that I have never been reported but I have reported a woman on the yard (years ago) whos ex sprinter had rainscald and laminitis. We called ILPH and David Guy came out, left his card and the woman rang him thinking that she would be offered another horse by them!! My daughter and I nursed this horse when the owner p****d off to cornwall, to live and left her in our care. She had the vet seeing her every three days and eventually got an infection in the sound hoof. The vet called it a day and got the woman to come from Cornwall to hold her while she was PTS. Lovely little mare who was only !! years old.
 
Yes and no! Years ago we had a Jack Russell who had problems with his liver and it took 2 diferent vets to diagnose the problem. Between which times he was looking rather the worse for wear with thickening skin on his back (looked like untreated mange) and we got reported for it. Rspca came out and was happy that he was being treated for it and came back out to do a follow up and saw him and was very happy with the difference in him. We lost him about 3 years ago
 
Yes, for blinding the horses... with fly masks... eye roll.... Now we have a little sign up to explain ourselves.
 
Him's a her and she's just gone off to the pro who helped us break her to be got back into work. Sadly she's too small for me and my daughter and she don't get on - although last year they went to PC camp and on a beach holiday together amongst other things.






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Those were taken on Wednesday. She was so good, she was caught out of the field, put on the lorry, taken off and bunged in my stables for a couple of hours, bunged on the lorry again, taken off and put in another stable somewhere where she'd never been before, loaded back up, taken to yet another yard and those pictures were immediately after unloading her for the third time in six hours.

She's a little superstar *feels guilty* and she needs the perfect home that doesn't leave her standing starving in soggy fields - or in the case of those pics - doesn't let her stuff her face!
 
One crazy lady and her daughter threatened to report me for under feeding and over rugging my horse last winter.
I got my loan horse back from her owner last May (I had to give her back for 6 months due to personal problems), and she was bloody over weight. When vet came out for her jabs she weighed her and she weighed 650kgs (she is only 15hh!).
So she has been on a strict diet ever since, she was having 1/2 scoop good doer and 1/4 scoop mix with a vit sup and about 3 sections hay a day/night.
But apparently she shoud be having 3 times that much cause she gets ridden 5-6 times a week.
I told her to make my day, as any bloody fool can see that she is not neglected. Never heard anything back from them xx.
 
Someone at a yard near me got reported because they were riding their 2yo and he was very immature for his age aswel, looked like a yearling! They sold it after this! THANK GOD! Then went and brought an older horse to ride, at least they hopefully learnt what is right and what is wrong.
 
I kid you not
I was reported for swearing at my horse at a show
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Someone at a yard near me got reported because they were riding their 2yo and he was very immature for his age aswel, looked like a yearling! They sold it after this! THANK GOD! Then went and brought an older horse to ride, at least they hopefully learnt what is right and what is wrong.

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They should have reported half the racing yards in the country then!
 
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