Spudlet
Well-Known Member
There's one point that seems to be getting lost under all the shouting - the one thing in any of this that seems more or less certain, and the one thing that actually matters.
Somewhere out there, there is a horse, that someone once loved, that has been passed on twice for little or no money, that has health problems, and no one seems to know where it is, who has it, or whether anyone is caring for it.
I don't mean to get at anyone, but I wonder, if the Amersham horses could talk, how many of them would have had similar stories to tell.
If you have a horse that cannot be ridden, and you cannot, or do not wish to keep it, for god's sake think about what you will do. Can you really find it a good home? Can you keep tabs on it - real tabs on it - for as long as it lives? Will you - can you - take it back if needs be?
If not please, please consider what you do with it carefully.
Look at the Amersham horses after they were rehabilitated. There were some beautiful horses there, hidden under the emaciation, the filth, and the fear, in that hell hole of a farm. Did someone love them once? Did someone shy away from making that call? Did someone think they were doing the right thing by keeping them alive at any cost?
Putting a horse to sleep is one of the hardest decisions anyone who loves horses can make - but sometimes it is the only responsible one. If you can't be sure - absolutely sure - that your unrideable horse will be safe and cared for, you have a duty towards it to make sure it doesn't become the next horse staring out of a photo with an evidence number spray-painted onto its side.
Please, just think.
Somewhere out there, there is a horse, that someone once loved, that has been passed on twice for little or no money, that has health problems, and no one seems to know where it is, who has it, or whether anyone is caring for it.
I don't mean to get at anyone, but I wonder, if the Amersham horses could talk, how many of them would have had similar stories to tell.
If you have a horse that cannot be ridden, and you cannot, or do not wish to keep it, for god's sake think about what you will do. Can you really find it a good home? Can you keep tabs on it - real tabs on it - for as long as it lives? Will you - can you - take it back if needs be?
If not please, please consider what you do with it carefully.
Look at the Amersham horses after they were rehabilitated. There were some beautiful horses there, hidden under the emaciation, the filth, and the fear, in that hell hole of a farm. Did someone love them once? Did someone shy away from making that call? Did someone think they were doing the right thing by keeping them alive at any cost?
Putting a horse to sleep is one of the hardest decisions anyone who loves horses can make - but sometimes it is the only responsible one. If you can't be sure - absolutely sure - that your unrideable horse will be safe and cared for, you have a duty towards it to make sure it doesn't become the next horse staring out of a photo with an evidence number spray-painted onto its side.
Please, just think.
