legislation will kill my horses, please help!

Urrgh I come across so many of these 'charities' and 'rescues' in my line of work and usually end up having to pick up the pieces when the public finally see the light and see where there well intentioned donations go. Majority of the time they certainly don't end up paying for nice clean bedding and correct feeding/farrier/vets etc. Sounds very much like this is a sham of a place and the horses are probably stood in ten different levels of **** in tiny dingey dark stables with mouldy hay trampled on the floor!

Sorry for my scepticism!! OP you should be disgusted with yourself if the findings of others on this thread are correct. Then again, my guess is that you won't give a damn!!!
 
Have a careful look through the album 'mobile uploads' and I think you will find Hairn Airstodare running with a field of mares!!!

NB amount of foals (coloured ) too!
 
Rescuing horses that are due to go for meat. Is it just me but sometimes would it be better for horses to go for meat than be 'rescued' by people who haven't a clue or the money to look after them?
A 15 year old posted on a local forum that she was off to resue soem horses before they were bought by the meat man. A 'charity' in the making?
 
...Mmm yes, the usual scenario in the photo's too... fields full of rusty old cars and lorry carriages, surrounded by barbed wire and chicken wire fencing, with foals scattered all around!! 'Sanctuary' my arse!!! Instead of breeding shed loads of dobbins she should invest a bit more of the publics kindly donated money into proper safe fencing and removing all the trash lying around in the horse's fields!:mad:
 
Moomin1 said:
...Mmm yes, the usual scenario in the photo's too... fields full of rusty old cars and lorry carriages, surrounded by barbed wire and chicken wire fencing, with foals scattered all around!! 'Sanctuary' my arse!!! Instead of breeding shed loads of dobbins she should invest a bit more of the publics kindly donated money into proper safe fencing and removing all the trash lying around in the horse's fields!:mad:
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Did you notice they had enough money last year to have a new arena surface and fencing put in? :rolleyes:
 
rhino said:
Did you notice they had enough money last year to have a new arena surface and fencing put in? :rolleyes:
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Yes I also noticed that they have designated a 'car park' area and a tack room full of saddles and bridles. Mmm, not sure where the council can see the similarity to a riding establishment, can you?!!!

I particularly like the photos of all the vet bills she has had in. Very responsible of her to get the vet, probably after one of her many foals produced by Hairn Airstodare has got entwined in a shoddy piece of car bumper or hung itself on a length of twine which has been left trailing all over the field from the bales. It also appears that under many of these photo's there seems to be a 'begging' comment asking for other people to send cheques in etc asap!
 
marydoll said:
Im kinda getting the same feelings as TT from this post, if im wrong please accept my apologies, but it sounds like youve never kept yourself up to date with the required legislation, or found out about the legal ramifications of diversifying to pay costs. While the prospect of running a sanctuary is very noble, the reality of whats happening to you highlights why you must know what youre doing.
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I cannot find anywhere to do replies, so am putting one on here, I am totally blown away by all the bitterness on here!!! why? I do not sell horses, I do rescue horses. yes we have foals, last year we bought a lovely young mare with bad scarring who had been sold for meat, she later produced a beautifu;ll foal, both would have died, if I can manage it they will stay with me for their whole lives. yes we rent fields at the back of a scrapyard, beautifull 200acres with a river running through it, we make no profits of any sort...we have NO welfare issues, all the horses passed the vet, I WANT to be within the law, I think it is right that we are, I just don't know how to go about it, why is everyone SO determind to be horrid, what did I ever to to you? don't bother to [post, I won't be coming back!!!! Friends of Champ
 
champion44 said:
oh and I can't find the photo's but make up your minds we either have loads of money for new school and posh fencing or we are a dump full of barbed wire...you can't have it both ways
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yes you could (and i havent seen the photos) but it would just show your priorities were in the wrong place
 
Whatever the circumstances of this place, I am seriously concerned by the obnoxious replies the OP has received. Good job you're all whiter than white and so bloody perfect! Maybe the OP isn't and hasn't done things as she should, but there is no need for some of the replies.
 
right ive sat on my hands long enough :(

why rescue/buy horses if you cannot afford to care for them yourself, expecting "donations" from the public to pay YOUR bills
if YOU buy a horse you should not expect other people to pay its keep
if you genuinely want to set up a rescue center do it properly ,stop using these rescue horse to make you money by hiring them out as you are doing

i'm not at all sorry if that comes across as harsh, i have been ripped off/sucked in by a "rescue" center such as yours in the past ,in fact that is were my horse came from would anyone care to donate a few quid towards his care ?

stop trying to rip people off by begging for money for a so called rescue center ,if you want to open a riding school or use your horses as riding school horses do what everyone else has to do and complete the paper work ,spend the money and sort it out :(
 
Holly Hocks said:
Whatever the circumstances of this place, I am seriously concerned by the obnoxious replies the OP has received. Good job you're all whiter than white and so bloody perfect! Maybe the OP isn't and hasn't done things as she should, but there is no need for some of the replies.
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^^I agree
 
Serenity087 said:
*has major disliking for people who breed for the sake of an animal having working reproductive organs*
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I know plenty of people who breed because they can, and breed substandard poor excuses for human beings....do you think we can impose our wants for the horse breeding world onto humans and stop producing bunches of throwbacks? LOL!!
 
I think I know why people are annoyed. There is a recession on in the county and lots of us feel it. People, at least responsible ones go without lots of things to own their horses and do not expect charity or hand outs, and importantly agree that it is better to pts a horse a day to early than a day to late.
You are perpetuating the cycle of unwanted horses by advertsing a stallion to stud. You clearly have a bad repuation and are giving the idea of charity a bad name.

I see the cycle of back yard breeding horses as following suit of america, these social problems and where animals are concerned should be brought to an end.

Fact is this superfluous populaion of horses is benefiting your own pocket.
 
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