If you had all the money in the world ..

[Montyforever]

What would you personally do to help horses?

I would take on all the free to good homes, and pts or sort then loan out to nice homes
And horses that are being pts when healthy because the owners cant afford them and our native ponies that seem to end up on the slaughter list

 

[Chellebean]

Help to rehome them, not give them a timeline for rehoming as long as they needed. I would probably allow the older ones to live out the end of their time in a huge gorgous field, where I could keep an eye on them

 

[Shilasdair]

At this point, I feel I ought to say that you don't need 'all the money in the world' to make a difference.
Your time is also precious - and you can help to educate horse owners in welfare terms by supporting the BHS campaigns against overbreeding, promoting better stable management and horse care, etc.
You could volunteer and be trained as a BHS welfare officer.
You could offer to work a few hours a week at any rescue centre nearby (or the RDA centres which are always looking for help - and help a human too ).
And finally, I guess you could try to be a responsible horse owner - and make sure that any horse you buy either is PTS or if sold, has a viable future.
S

 

[perfect11s]

At this point, I feel I ought to say that you don't need 'all the money in the world' to make a difference.
Your time is also precious - and you can help to educate horse owners in welfare terms by supporting the BHS campaigns against overbreeding, promoting better stable management and horse care, etc.
You could volunteer and be trained as a BHS welfare officer.
You could offer to work a few hours a week at any rescue centre nearby (or the RDA centres which are always looking for help - and help a human too ).
And finally, I guess you could try to be a responsible horse owner - and make sure that any horse you buy either is PTS or if sold, has a viable future.
S

Great well said, very well put totaly agree....

 

[Montyforever]

At this point, I feel I ought to say that you don't need 'all the money in the world' to make a difference.
Your time is also precious - and you can help to educate horse owners in welfare terms by supporting the BHS campaigns against overbreeding, promoting better stable management and horse care, etc.
You could volunteer and be trained as a BHS welfare officer.
You could offer to work a few hours a week at any rescue centre nearby (or the RDA centres which are always looking for help - and help a human too ).
And finally, I guess you could try to be a responsible horse owner - and make sure that any horse you buy either is PTS or if sold, has a viable future.
S

Actually i hadnt looked at it like that . I have actually offered to help at my local charity before, never got a reply! Will have to try again

 

[hannah28]

i would buy a really nice yard with every feature you could think of like indoor school, out door school, jumps, xc field, soleriam, wash box, big stables with auto drinkers rubber mats and hay bars, horse walker, lunge pen, big fields with grass mats at the gates, hi tech cctv, beautiful on site house, big horse box.......then when i got all that i would go to the horse sales and rescue lots of horses and ponies and train them and loan them on my fantastic new yard .......if only !!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Well I already do work with RDA but I would like to set up a similar scheme for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who will probably never have the opportunity to learn to ride or own a horse. Having seen what a difference it can make to people with learning disabilities, I am convinced that it could help to break the cycle of deprivation and change lives for the better.

ETA this would help horses by educating more people about them, which can only be a good thing and providing a useful role for those involved - I would hope that the scheme would become as widespread as RDA.

 

[Kokopelli]

This lovely HUGE stud farm has just come up for sale by us. I would buy it and then buy all the poor native ponies going for slaughter and bring them on into really nice childrens ponies (like proper childrens ponies) not the naughty horrible ones.

I would also donate tonnes to alll the charities, and not just horse ones, cancer research and diabetes UK