Tinseltoes
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Taking them over to Ireland is my guess then off for horsemeat.Sad isnt it!!!
HORSES PLAITED AND ATTEMPTED THEFT IN TEFFONT WILTSHIRE TODAY!!
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ladyt25
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That's my biggest fear about these sorts of things - it's one thing a horse being stolen and sold on to an unsuspecting buyer but to think of an animail you may have owned for many years ending up terrified and being shipped off to an horrific end is just unimaginable.
Do abbatoirs not have to check horses that arrive with them?? If not why not? Law-abiding owners who passport their horses and microchip their horses seem to just be wasting their money don't they as it doens't seem anyone's safe. I think ports certainly should be required by law to check all horses that pass through.
Do abbatoirs not have to check horses that arrive with them?? If not why not? Law-abiding owners who passport their horses and microchip their horses seem to just be wasting their money don't they as it doens't seem anyone's safe. I think ports certainly should be required by law to check all horses that pass through.
Tinseltoes
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I think ports/sales need to scan too and see the passport.Im getting my boy freezemarked as it scares me a lot. I know my feild is surrounded by houses etc and cthieves would be seen,but you just dont know do you?
starsky
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I wrote the email about the horse found in Holyhead. It was my friend, I heard it first hand from her the day the horse was taken and every day til the horse was back.
Urban myths exist yes, but that one was definitely true. Police and microchipping companies both involved.
Urban myths exist yes, but that one was definitely true. Police and microchipping companies both involved.
ladyt25
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Thing is I don't think it matters where your horse is as these people are bold and it would take someone to think they were doing something suspicious to approach them and question them.
Tinseltoes
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If someone got in my field and the people who live there saw them theyd call the police as everyone around there knows Im the only one who sees to the horse and pony.
oofadoofa
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That's my biggest fear about these sorts of things - it's one thing a horse being stolen and sold on to an unsuspecting buyer but to think of an animail you may have owned for many years ending up terrified and being shipped off to an horrific end is just unimaginable.
Do abbatoirs not have to check horses that arrive with them?? If not why not? Law-abiding owners who passport their horses and microchip their horses seem to just be wasting their money don't they as it doens't seem anyone's safe. I think ports certainly should be required by law to check all horses that pass through.
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Do you know the scary thing is that I had booked in one of my horses to take him to the local abbatoir and was asked if he had a passport. I said yes and they told me to bring it along with me, if not they could make a passport up there and then. How scary is that?!
That's my biggest fear about these sorts of things - it's one thing a horse being stolen and sold on to an unsuspecting buyer but to think of an animail you may have owned for many years ending up terrified and being shipped off to an horrific end is just unimaginable.
Do abbatoirs not have to check horses that arrive with them?? If not why not? Law-abiding owners who passport their horses and microchip their horses seem to just be wasting their money don't they as it doens't seem anyone's safe. I think ports certainly should be required by law to check all horses that pass through.
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Do you know the scary thing is that I had booked in one of my horses to take him to the local abbatoir and was asked if he had a passport. I said yes and they told me to bring it along with me, if not they could make a passport up there and then. How scary is that?!
ladyt25
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That's the terrible thing oofadoofa. The thought of any of my horses ending up at an abbatoir for the sake of a few hundred quid for the thieves makes my blood run cold and the fact that an abbatoir is happy to just 'do' a passport is sickening.
I am hoping that this isn't actually the case with all horses being 'selected' and they aren't all intended for the meat market (i just can't see the demand and how it's money making but then maybe I'm naive and the fact the thieves can make a few hundred quid per horse maybe with no outlay from themselves - well i guess to these people money's money.
Think I may go shopping for a static caravan this weekend to plonk down my stables so i can stay in that overnight!!!
I am hoping that this isn't actually the case with all horses being 'selected' and they aren't all intended for the meat market (i just can't see the demand and how it's money making but then maybe I'm naive and the fact the thieves can make a few hundred quid per horse maybe with no outlay from themselves - well i guess to these people money's money.
Think I may go shopping for a static caravan this weekend to plonk down my stables so i can stay in that overnight!!!
oofadoofa
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I do wonder how much theft goes on without us knowing about it too. Last year I found two chaps snooping about at my yard at 6 in the morning and reported it to the police. Didn't hear anything else and no reports locally of any horses stolen. Then a few weeks later heard that around 30 horses had been found in a field behind a local gypsy site and were returned to their owners (farmer who owned field told me himself). Nothing at all the press, nothing on the Horsewatch website, stolen horse register, etc, etc.
Tinseltoes
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Its absolutly sigusting.Whats the point of having a passport then? abbatoirs need to make sure the horse isnt stolen before they kill it.Grrrrrrr makes me mad. Im against horsemeat industry.Thieves need to have their arms cut off.
CALMEquestrian
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The incident in Wilts was described by police as near Tisbury (which Teffont is). See http://www.calmequestrian.co.uk under latest news, this comes to me direct from the police then copied and pasted to the site within hours. Hope this helps. Miranda.
Darkly_Dreaming_Dex
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Freezemarking is a great idea but no one seems interested in getting theirs done. I have one i want freezemarked but the companies say there is no interest in my area so i had to get a group of 6 minimum . I emailed all the riding clubs across 5 counties, put up posts on 3 forums, contacted local horsewatch + they circulated info on their email and i had ONE person interested
If i was in Scotland then fair enough but i am in Oxfordshire... I have had him microchipped and am waiting for a company to contact me to do him at their leisure
Freezemarking is a great idea but no one seems interested in getting theirs done. I have one i want freezemarked but the companies say there is no interest in my area so i had to get a group of 6 minimum . I emailed all the riding clubs across 5 counties, put up posts on 3 forums, contacted local horsewatch + they circulated info on their email and i had ONE person interested
koeffee
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i heard these stories recently and i have just microchip all 7 of mine, they are near a main road, but its a back road and a constanlty worry, that lock will be cut etc, and i am doing my own sign and laminating it to put on my gate.
miss_bird
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I do find it strange that people are stating that the horses are being shipped to Ireland for meat, as there is a 3 month waiting list for the meat man in Ireland, so if they cant dispose of their own, how the hell do people think a load shipped in from the UK will be disposed of asap.
PLEASE CAN WE JUST STATE FACTS NOT MAKE UP AS WE GO ALONG
PLEASE CAN WE JUST STATE FACTS NOT MAKE UP AS WE GO ALONG
Faithkat
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I'm sure, if they don't already, if there was demand the chipping company would come up with a sign for a small cost.
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There's no need to ask the chipping people - all mine are chipped and I made my own signs for the gate : A3 paper, very large typeface and laminated.
I'm sure, if they don't already, if there was demand the chipping company would come up with a sign for a small cost.
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There's no need to ask the chipping people - all mine are chipped and I made my own signs for the gate : A3 paper, very large typeface and laminated.
Lorraine1962
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I don't think it's scaremongering as it's only just happened to one of our mares....means we have to bring them in...grrrr
lhotse
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Oh here we go again, another new poster bringing up threads from the vaults to scaremonger again!!!
It's not even half term yet!!
It's not even half term yet!!
OWLIE185
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The fact of the matter is that amongst all the horse thefts reported to horsewatch over many years not one has been reported stolen because their tail has been plaited.
If you are worried about your horse being stolen then get it freezemarked on it's shoulder. Anyone can easily see and read a freezemark rather than a microchip which is invisible and the scanner from one system will not recognise other systems.
If your horse is stolen report it immediately to the police and ask for an incident/crime number. Then report it to Horsewatch and then update your horses record on www.ned-online.org.uk and mark it's record as stolen.
If you are worried about your horse being stolen then get it freezemarked on it's shoulder. Anyone can easily see and read a freezemark rather than a microchip which is invisible and the scanner from one system will not recognise other systems.
If your horse is stolen report it immediately to the police and ask for an incident/crime number. Then report it to Horsewatch and then update your horses record on www.ned-online.org.uk and mark it's record as stolen.
Luci07
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Still, I am of the school that sharpening us owners up is no bad thing and it if makes someone more suspicious and less trusting then that is no bad thing.
But then you can get the other funny side - our YO keeps odd hours (deliberately) at our yard and cultivates lovely "nosey" neighbours. She came out on night to find someone was camping some 50 yards away behind one of the trees so called out people to investigate. Turned out to be one truly terrified man who well and truly had the wind put up him but better to be safe than sorry (no one was violent! before you ask, just he was equally surprised when a large 4 x 4 drove upto check him out!)
But then you can get the other funny side - our YO keeps odd hours (deliberately) at our yard and cultivates lovely "nosey" neighbours. She came out on night to find someone was camping some 50 yards away behind one of the trees so called out people to investigate. Turned out to be one truly terrified man who well and truly had the wind put up him but better to be safe than sorry (no one was violent! before you ask, just he was equally surprised when a large 4 x 4 drove upto check him out!)
pamnhols
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Petdetect do signs saying all animals are microchipped, I think when I gotmine they were about a fiver. Thats Nothing really if it may help prevent theft.
Tinseltoes
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Exactly,wish they would STOP these rumours. Thieves DO NOT mark a horse to steal Grrrrrrrrr
as if they'd be so stupid.
Faithkat
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This old myth is getting really tiresome now, the Police have said publicly that THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF PLAITED HORSES BEING STOLEN
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8442840.Are_pony_plaits_the_work_of_pagans_/
My Arab had a wonderful "plait" in her mane last weekend . . . funnily enough is coincided with the very windy weather (and she does a lot of head tossing)
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8442840.Are_pony_plaits_the_work_of_pagans_/
My Arab had a wonderful "plait" in her mane last weekend . . . funnily enough is coincided with the very windy weather (and she does a lot of head tossing)