Horse without a passport

[coby]

I am currently looking to buy a new horse and have found one that I really like, that is currently owned by a dealer, and originally came from Ireland. Problem is, that it does not currently have a passport or registration papers, although the dealer has said that it will be passported before it is sold. Would the fact that the horse currently has no passport (which is technically against the law), put you off buying the horse?

 

[_Hayley_]

im currently thinking that the horse may not have a passport and if the dealer said that it will have one before it is sold than im guessing that it has no passport or papers.! it would def put me off buying the horse no matter how much i would have fallen in love with it

. hope this helps
xxx

 

[martlin]

If it wasn't a mare I was intending breeding out and it was vetted and aged at the vetting, it wouldn't bother me at all that the horse didn't have a passport, as long as the dealer would have it passported before the sale.
I would also check for brands, freeze marks, microchips etc to make sure as much as I can it hasn't been stolen.

 

[Donkeymad]

Many horses ponies and donkeys that come from Ireland, bought by Dealers, have no passports. As long as the Dealer obtains one before you buy and move the horse, I see no problem.

 

[GatefieldHorses]

have bought a few that had no passport until seller purchased one b4 sale.
some people just havnt bothered gettin their horse one and sum genuinly get lost ?!

 

[RussianGirl]

A few months before the rules came in over here, we purchased a horse through a dealer, and rang up the passporting people, and the lovely bloke I got said that he would do his best to send one before the deadline, but if anyone asked the horse was bought from the side of the road out of pity!