Loose horses - South Wales

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Please can anyone give me some advice to pass on.
A lady I work with is really worried about 4 ponies who are consistantly straying where she lives, they are permanently getting into people gardens (she doesn't mind even though she is not a horse person) and getting on the roads. She has reported them to the police 4 times now as she is terrified they are going to get killed on the road. The police have not and will not do anything.
Can anyone give me any suggestion of how she could call. She is near Swansea. Sorry but I am in Wiltshire otherwise would be inclined to collect them and put them somewhere safe.
 
try the parish council or its equivalent, they are good at kicking up a stinkette esp if the horses end up on the village field or whatever.

make it clear to the police that you have logged all the calls and if an accident happens you will go straight to the press!
 
The good ol' SWales police
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We have the same issue time after time , after time and nothing is ever done about it.
The police are just not interested and we were even told if they got onto our land (a yard) and we didn't 'keep' them , if they then went on to injure someone we could be held accountable!
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Its a joke, even a police man (that happened to be driving past last time) called the station several times and no-one ever turned up
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Thank you all.
A man turned up who knew the owner, rang him up, they exchanged words and low and behold he has finally managed to herd them to safety - well at least for now.
Apparently they are just turned out on scrubland and were obviously looking for better food and they felt the gardens were ideal!!!!
 
where in swansea is it as there are alot of wild welsh mountain "loose" ponies that roam the common in gower and have done for years and years , there are cattle grids in place but these dont always stop them.

Obviously if they are in the middle of the town somewhere then that would be dangerous. need to get on to the council as they will impound them, (but not iff they are the ponies that roam the common (they do also go in peoples gardens but usually the Gower residents put up fences or dont mind them doing it as they see tham as part of the community lol
 
We had the same issue last year, the yard where I keep my horses is just off the Gower, and last autumn, 4 ponies just appeared in the field. This mad woman turned up (who I believe is notorious locally) and said she couldn't herd them back to the common as her husband was ill and she was in a state, so the YO said they could stay for a week, and lo and behold they are still here! She has had to put them in a separate field cos she is nuts, and every week she chains the fence up, so YO has to go and use bolt cutters to get in and out, she is a nightmare. Turns out she didn't have commoners grazing rights and was told to leave, so just herded her horses into our field!
 
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