Loose Horse's Found.

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Woke up this morning and saw some horses loose in a field that was cut for hay... I rang a lady who's I thought it was she had a look and drove away I then knock someone else up again not their's.. Girl went riding past and horse's started to follow her on the road so we managed to get them into someones garden and could only get near one to get headcollar on and then led them through the back garden and found a paddock to put them in. Could not get anyone at house to answer.....rang the police who very few details but said that they do not record found horses.....would not even come out.. I feel really bad that I have left them in someones paddock but happy that they cannot get run over.
 
What you have been told by the Police is a load of bunkum! True there is no particular register to put them on however they will have a command & control computer & they can log the details of the incident. By doing this the incident will be searchable & any loser of the horses will be able to contact them & the details of what has happened & where the horses have been held will be readily be available.

The laziness of some employees on the phone lines is sometimes unbelievable.
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sorry the control room took very limited information where they have been put did not want to know if they are mares or geldings. One looked really oul and has a fetlock joint injury (OLD and HEALED) but walks really funny and very thin and the young one is very ribby... looks like they need worming... Not sure what to do next? I am so worried that the person who's paddock it is will turn them loose again. My fields are over a mile away and you cannot get a headcollar on the young one.
 
What about ringing ILPH or some one like that. Dont waste time with RSPCA they werent concerned when we reported a mother swan and her babies in the middle of our road, and cars swerving all over to miss them.
 
I do hope the owners turn up. I think ringing the ILPH if you can is a good idea. I like to think that if someone found horses in their paddock they wouldn't just turn them out - totally irresponsible, hopefully they will ring the police too.

Having two escape artists myself it's nice to know there are people prepared to look out for them.
 
Depending on what area you are in means a whole load of difference to how the police treat it.
In Essex they have a wonderful policy called the straying horse policy and they take them in and put them into a greenyard scheme while they try to determine how they are dealt with.
Contact you local division and ask them if they have either an equne liason officer or a mounted section and if they do ask to speak to someone within that dept.
Failing that try the local sanctuarys and suchlike.
Hope this helps a bit.
 
If they are not claimed perhaps quote the Abandonment Act 1960 to Police
Not a lot of use to people whose land they are now on--they may not be very pleased because if they turn them back out they will be the ones in trouble.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1960/cukpga_19600043_en_1
WHW at least have somewhere to take them in but depends where you are in the country--you may be nearer Redwings.
 
I have been up and checked again and they are both still in the paddock, there was a car in the drive this time so I rang the bell several times but got no reply. Now begining to think they may belong there.....I will keep checking until I know for sure. I did try the RSPCA and they said it was the police's responsibility. I have a spare paddock I could put them in but it is such a long way I have it ready just in case. I could not just leave them straying around.
 
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