Horse killed by Dog Biscuits and Jaffa Cakes

piebaldsparkle

piebaldsparkle

Well-Known Member
Joined
26 July 2006
Messages
13,017
Visit site
Unbelievable!!!
mad.gif


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...fed-treats.html
 
Good God, that poor boy.

What a restrained interview from that man, I would be spitting feathers. Just makes me want to go and shut all my animals away, sad as that sounds.
Horse down the road had a bin bag of grass cuttings tipped over his fence during the summer by a passer-by, I nearly went mad, none of my business though it was.

Just a few weeks ago I had to tell the window cleaner off for giving my dog a custard cream, he was trying to 'make friends' but what he didn't know is that the dog is allergic to flippin' everything.
 
Hmm whats unbelievable is his comment that he was "in the process" of putting up a sign asking people not to feed the horse yet all this happened over a period of weeks.. if my horse was at risk in this way I would get a sign(s) up the same day I found out about it?!! Surely??
 
Well-meaning passers by feeding hoses really makes me cross. At the same time, as this horse was so sensitive I would not have risked letting him near a Public Footpath. I hope he didn't suffer too much.
 
dog biscuit and jaffa cakes are inappropriate treats, but has anyone noticed that fact that that horse looks very lean in the pic and the comment from the owner about ''I went back to the paddock A COUPLE DAYS LATER and he was lying on the floor of the stable and he was dead. I was absolutely devastated.'.

Doesn't sound like this horse was very well looked after, maybe well meaning passers by took pity on the poor bugger being starving!.
 
It sounds like he was on some sort of strict diet (no apples) so would you not put a sign up in the fitst place?
Poor horse.
 
Signs make no difference sadly
mad.gif
We had a mare who was allergic to pretty much everything, we had signs up and spoke directly to passers by, it made no blooming difference at all
frown.gif
 
Its such a worry if your horse is in a publically accessible place. I used to keep the horses down the road at a honey pot tourist spot and very often I found sugar cubes stacked up on the gateway - God knows what else people fed them
frown.gif
 
my old pony was kept at a field with a footpath along side with a school at the top and a estate att the bottom poor boy was fed everything that was in lunch boxes i.e. half eaten ham sadwiches and samosas!!! had to find a new field when i found out!!!!
 
Think its highly unfair for someone to suggest the horse wasn't well taken care of, it had vet visits and doesn't look anything other than a normal horse!
 
Totally agree with you TSH. The horse looks perfectly healthy in the photos and sounds like it was well cared for.
 
Call me a miserable old cynic but you have to remember that journalists write stories to shock so that people buy the bloody paper. You will all have heard the expression "we never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

I bet £1,000,000 there's more to this than meets the eye.
 
Do they, BoF? I've never written to 'shock', it has never been my motivation or intention, for me it is about who/where/what/when/why and every editor I have worked for has rammed 'accuracy' down my throat from the minute I walked in the door.

This is a story about an animal dying because of the actions of humans, I think it is shocking enough.

But don't ask me if I like the Daily Mail
tongue.gif
 
[ QUOTE ]
Call me a miserable old cynic but you have to remember that journalists write stories to shock so that people buy the bloody paper. You will all have heard the expression "we never let the truth get in the way of a good story".

I bet £1,000,000 there's more to this than meets the eye.

[/ QUOTE ]
I agree with you. This IS the Daily Mail, after all. In another article they comment on Prince Edward who 'appeared to repeadedly beat' his dogs... Nothing like hard proof, eh?
tongue.gif
(oh and split infinitives)

Edited to quote Daily Mail more accurately
 
OK, well I can see my profession is very well regarded here.

*dons stained mac, sticks bookies' docket in trilby and goes to wait on a street corner for someone to bribe into giving her a one-sided 'scoop'*

Agree PF that the Prince Edward story is ridiculous, though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top