Horse Theft Survey - Pls complete for Pet Theft Awareness Week

[DebbieCG]

Pet Theft Awareness Week will be holding it's third annual awareness week this March (14th-21st March 2015) www.pettheft.co.uk
PTA are campaigning for tougher laws to prevent horse and pet theft.

Please could you help them by completing the horse theft survey and also if possible the cat and dog theft surveys (all 3 surveys are user-friendly and should take less than 5 minutes each.

The surveys' results will help PTA lobby parliament, thank you:


Calling all HORSE owners: The Horse Theft Survey:
link is: https://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/13264
Your data is vital for understanding horse owners' concerns.
We can use this to prove (or disprove) that legislation is needed!
*please share and spread on forums etc*
Cat Theft Survey: https://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/13244
Dog Theft Survey: https://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/13229
www.pettheft.co.uk

 

[DebbieCG]

Bumping to highlight

 

[tashcat]

Done horse and cat, but don't own any dogs!

Appreciate you posting this, I think more should be done in terms of animal theft.

 

[DebbieCG]

Thanks tashcat, that's very helpful.

Just bumping again.

The survey is open until 2 March.

 

[Janovich]

...done

 

[DebbieCG]

Thank you Janovich.

Bumping again

So far PTA has received a good responses from various forums and fb sites, the completed surveys all go to help the cause. They are confidential and no personal info is required.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Shared on Petforums.co.uk in all three sections.

 

[DebbieCG]

Thanks very much cinnamontoast.

 

[Theocat]

Done / bumping.

What are the actual statistics on theft? Is it growing, or is the perception growing? I assume it is one or the other given the survey?

 

[EquiEquestrian556]

Done

 

[DebbieCG]

I don't think statistically that equine theft has been increasing over the last few years (maybe something to do with economical climate) but there have been some cases over the last few years.

There seems to be an increase in dog theft over the last few years however.

Stolen Horse Register is a fairly good guage of how many horses have been stolen, but not all are listed on there.

These are details of a small grey pony recently stolen (end of January) from Leicestershire - please keep a look out for him if going to markets etc.

My horse Ballymoss was stolen in 1981 (when horsetheft was beginning to emerge) so have always been affected by it. The laws have not changed since then. PTA are trying to help change the law and regard the theft of pets or horses as 'living possession' and not 'inanimate object' which they currently are.

This should be a poster of last year's PTA horse poster for some fairly recent stolen/missing horses.

 

[DebbieCG]

Grey pony stolen from Leceicestershire Jan 2015 - http://www.equinedata.co.uk/equines/ED132.html

If you go to www.pettheft.co.uk on the Home/About page under Blog scroll down to 2 posters, one of stolen horses and one of stolen dogs, shared in last year's Pet Theft Awareness Week.

 

[DebbieCG]

Thanks EquiEquestrian 556.

This should be link to PTA blog (with recent poster for missing/stolen horse and stolen dogs (from last year's PTA Awareness Week)):

http://pettheftaware.blogspot.co.uk/

Here is link for Pet Theft Awareness:
www.pettheft.co.uk