Horses kept on housing estates!!!!am shocked by this!

[3DE]

Inky cuts the lawn

 

[MosMum]

I thought they stopped ponies being tethered in Townhill,Blaenymaes,etc? I know there used to be a lot of it years ago. You never see ponies in gardens here in Neath.

BlaenyMaes is the area I live a few miles from (Treboeth) and I can assure you they still tether horses It seems to be getting worse up Clase way, too. Can't speak for Town Hill.

The horses are often not moved for days at a time, and are rarely topped up with food in winter. Watered either once a day in a tub or with a bucket that just gets knocked over. Not wormed (belly's full of worms, you can tell from 200 yards away!). It really is sad to see.

 

[Twirly]

I have two in my back garden and my boy would quite like to live in the house too PMSL

 

[Double_choc_lab]

Knowle West in Bristol is a very large council estate (can't remember the PC terminology) but lots of unemployment, poor education etc but lots of ponies living in back gardens. Someone has started a club especially for these horse owners which at least will be a means of educating them. Stuck behind one in the car one day - no hat, riding with only a headcollar, phone, fag and high heeled shoes

 

[seadog]

I have never seen horses living in someones small backgarden, I'm not adverse to it, just never seen it.....where you people live?? It sounds like every other house has a pony in the garden?!

 

[skint1]

On the absolute condition that the horses are cared for I think there are worse fates they could have, and if it keeps the kids who have them out of trouble and teach them a bit about responsibility and compassion to all animals that's not bad either.The Knowle West set up-having a club to teach people how to care for these horses properly is great because so many people, not just people on council estates either, get a horse and treat it like a machine and don't bother to learn the first thing about caring for them.

I remember when I first moved to England I actually thought it was lovely that people who lived in towns could still have horses, definitely couldn't do it where I was born/grew up. I live on a council estate, have a fairly large garden with my house but I couldn't imagine either of my horses being happy there, but luckily I don't live far from the countryside and because my horses live there I get to enjoy it all the more.

 

[micramadam]

Now shall I put the cat among the pigeons and let it have a field day!

When I was younger we tethered my ponies on common land as did quite a few other people in the village. And no I didn't live on a housing estate but in a private bungalow. They were tethered correctly and always had access to water (checked several times a day by myself and the other pony owners). They were put out on a morning and brought back in at night. This saved my few tiny paddocks from being overgrazed. Not ideal but I had to make do with what we had. I never had any problems with overweight or laminitic ponies. They saw the farrier regularly and they never had any problems in all the time I had them. 10+ years. They were all absolutley bombproof even the 3/4 arab. So bombproof in fact that at 5 years old she didn't even turn a hair when passed by a load of army tanks when we were out hacking (on a main A road!).
I agree that its not an ideal situation and I would have loved a couple of huge fields for them but 25 years ago things were a lot different. Tethering is not all bad when done correctly and my ponies still had field time where they could 'run free' so to speak.

 

[howengold]

you mean like this?

don't panic, they were replacing my broken mower for a few hours lol

 

[amandaco2]

ive never seen it........................
why buy a horse and then leave it so it can get run over?!