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Scribbles what would you do in this situation:

Unrideable old horse
You lose your job, there is no-one to help you out financially and you are struggling to find a job.
Its creeping into winter and your horse needs XYZ that you cannot afford.

To me, your responsibility to an animal extends to doing something hard, if it is in the best interests of the animal.

I would not hesitate to put the animal to sleep if no-one wanted to take him off my hands. One day that horse had to suffer to keep my conscience clear, is a day too much. Sometimes, for some people life sucks and they are just trying to do what is best for their animal. No-one can be blamed for that.
 
For me, there is this massive fear around putting horses to sleep or infact any animal lets face it.

I think some people do need to get real, if your horse is going to suffer because you simply cannot sell or care for it, then putting it to sleep is a kindness.

Lets take for instance JG, I would rather of seen all of those horses humanely PTS than going through what they went through.
 
PTS is taking responsibility for your animals! Its the next best thing to keeping them all as pets and horses are working animals, more like farm animals than pets. Should farmers keep all the bulls until they die a natural death because its terrible to kill a healthy animal? Trying to convince or dupe someone else into taking responsibility for these horses is what's being criticized, not choosing to pts.
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I'm sorry kitsune, you seem to have misunderstood what I meant.

If the owner cannot look after the horse, if the horse is going to suffer because the owner can't look after it, if the horse is in pain from the condition, if it is neglected, etcetc, then of course PTS is the kindest option.

I am against when an owner decides that if they kill horse A, then can afford to buy a new sound horse.

When I was little we had our dog put down because she was diabetic and we couldn't afford the treatment. That (to me) is fine - what would have been wrong is if we COULD have afforded the insulin, but would rather buy a nice new necklace with the money.

I don't have any kind of 'massive fear' about PTS, I just don't think it should be the option when unnecessary. My horse once got a cuton his leg and couldn't be ridden for a week, should I PTS then so I could buy one I could compete at the show that weekend?

Of course that's my opinion.

 
Oh fine, I see I am in the minority here.

I am talking about the attitude of a one-horse owner for their animal as a commodity/hobby, rather than living and breathing. If you CAN look after the animal, then you should. If you can't, then have it PTS. It's not like the horse can feel it. I'm not *actually* talking about PTS, but the attitude of "throw it away, I want a new one". The same thing is for trying to get someone else to take it - I'm not discussing HOW they throw away their trash, more the mentality exists that they WANT to.

Of course, their horse(s), it's just how I feel, I was always taught to take responsibility.
 
To make clear, I'm NOT talking about the decision to PTS, I'm talking about the decision to get rid of a (healthy, pain-free) horse because you want another one, or because you can't be bothered to look after something you can't ride.

To me, the minority here, that is unfair and wrong.

It becomes ok if you can't look after it because of finances, time, if the horse is suffering through ill health, pain, laminities, boredom, whatever.

But maybe I am just mad for thinking it.
 
There is one horse on there and the owner states they haven;t the facilities to retire him. I interprete that (perhaps wrongly) as haven't got the facilities to keep him now they can't ride him because they either are too mean to pay for a useless horse, or more likely perhaps want to replace him with one they can ride. People really do not want to take responsibility for their oldies do they
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Of course it is wrong to out to sleep a healthy happy horse, just because it cannot be ridden.

BUT if the options are that, or abandonment - which we have to face in todays society, I favour the former.

Sadly many people DO want to ride and DONT want to compromise, in this case I would be happier for a horse to be pts than its welfare compromised in any way.
 
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I don't understand that website, or 'companion' sections in general. You bought a horse, it went wrong, now you're trying to offload it onto someone else to bother with the upkeep?!

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That's it in a nutshell
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Yes i second this, alot of those adverts are passing the buck
 
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