Minxy the little fallabella needs our help

Minxy does need our help, but in terms of persuading his owner to let him have a dignified end, not a short life full of pain and surgery and photo opportunities - and maybe the money she is asking for could instead be spent on real animal welfare, not a poor little horse who was pretty much genetically engineered not to be able to walk.

This story has made me a bit ill :(
 
Same here ... These tiny ponies are no better than dogs bred with short noses so they can't breathe etc. If she wants to give him the treatment she had better put her hand in her pocket and next time think hard about the health of any more foals she intends to breed!
 
no way would I donate to prolong any animals suffering. Quite simply, he should never have been born. Anyone know what happened to the wry nosed foal?
 
I've just watched this on the local news - As cute as it may be, and as much as they might be desperate to save it, they cannot afford it so they shouldnt have bred it. It's not even like it is guaranteed to come right at the end of it! I bet they get the donations though when that money could be far better donated elswhere
 
Things like this really annoy me and make my blood boil. It is things like this that give miniature horses a bad name.

This is a DWARF. No amount of surgery will change that. it is a DWARF and will always be a DWARF!!!! It is NOT CUTE!!!! It is in PAIN and always will be.

Yes there are some dwarfs that are born and are not so severly disabled that they can live a "normal life" They will never be bred, they will never enter a show and they will never be ridden. END OF!!

Dwarfs happen, its a fact of life. More so in the miniatures and are not always as a result of indescriminate breeding. There are some famous miniatures that are out there that have bred dwarfs and in any responsible minitiare owners mind should never be bred again.

This dwarf will NEVER lead a normal life. It altready has too many disabilities to start with. no amount of surgery will help this little fella.

They say it might beat the world record for the smallest horse in the world, but its a DWARF!!!! ARGH!!!!!

Please DO NOT domnate to this cause, unless you want to donate to keeping a mini in severe pain for the rest of its life. Give it some dignity and PTS.
 
Stinkbomb said:
Things like this really annoy me and make my blood boil. It is things like this that give miniature horses a bad name.

This is a DWARF. No amount of surgery will change that. it is a DWARF and will always be a DWARF!!!! It is NOT CUTE!!!! It is in PAIN and always will be.

Yes there are some dwarfs that are born and are not so severly disabled that they can live a "normal life" They will never be bred, they will never enter a show and they will never be ridden. END OF!!

Dwarfs happen, its a fact of life. More so in the miniatures and are not always as a result of indescriminate breeding. There are some famous miniatures that are out there that have bred dwarfs and in any responsible minitiare owners mind should never be bred again.

This dwarf will NEVER lead a normal life. It altready has too many disabilities to start with. no amount of surgery will help this little fella.

They say it might beat the world record for the smallest horse in the world, but its a DWARF!!!! ARGH!!!!!

Please DO NOT domnate to this cause, unless you want to donate to keeping a mini in severe pain for the rest of its life. Give it some dignity and PTS.
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Totally agree.
 
Can I just say first of all that I really do not agree with this at all and the poor thing should have been PTS regardless of how cute it is. Does this mean if my pony needs an op at any point, I can go on her cuteness factor and get everyone to donate money?

Just Curious, - when breeding how much money do you believe a person should have behind them? I swithered about putting my mare in foal in the future (good confo etc) but tbh, I would be gutted if anything happened to my mare and would constantly worry.
 
I had this whole "it's cute" discussion with someone last time one of these poor buggers got publicised, and ended up showing her a photo of a shetland foal.
Guess what! The shetland foal doesn't resemble a My Little Pony with a bulging brachiocephalic head! It's legs move! It doesn't stand in a weird straddle! It doesn't require a vast number of operations! It's functional!
 
Totally agree with "Stinkbomb" and others .... this little foal is suffering now, and will suffer even more in the future if all the do-gooders out there who know nothing about horses go all ooohh aaaahhh and contribute to this fund.

There was a picture of him in the Western Morning News, which is our local paper here, showing him all splinted up and looking very sorrowful.

FGS: can't the owner/breeder see that this is CRUEL??? I think any of us with an ounce of compassion in us, would be ringing the vet/kennels/knackerman by now.

Another observation: where's the RSPCA when you need 'em?
 
I tried to have a look at the facebook page but i had to add them as a friend, i got a bit worried that others may think i am in someway condoning what this idiot is doing to this poor "pony" by adding them. All i wanted to do was tell her what an irresponsible person she was being. Makes me mad she is ponsing for money when any money that people donate could actually go to causes that would be of benefit to equines rather than a selfish cow like her:mad:
 
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this is ridiculous and actually causing the little guy more pain than it's worth.

If they manage to get £6k together and he is put right, he'll spend months in recovery which will be painful and all to be a field ornament..

I wander as well if all his organs and insides are ok as it's obvious him being premature has affected his legs and teeth/throat so who's to say he's not all messed up/deformed inside!!

I hope they choose to have the little fella PTS would be much kinder!
 
Put the little fella to sleep. Yes it's cute but he wont have a good quality of life will he?

Imagine all of the sound horses £6000 could help Via the Brooke, ESMA or SPANA ect. Don't breed if you can't afford the consequences, no just don't breed at all...:mad:
 
Totally agree with all the above. Was actually really shocked that H&H published this... its more up the Daily Fail's street!!

Put the poor thing to sleep and at least give him a dignified end!!!! GAH!!!
 
fidleyspromise said:
Just Curious, - when breeding how much money do you believe a person should have behind them? I swithered about putting my mare in foal in the future (good confo etc) but tbh, I would be gutted if anything happened to my mare and would constantly worry.
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As much money as you are prepared to lose! But it should be your OWN money and not reliant on handouts. I dithered when faced with a £2500 vets bill for a week old foal.....weighed up the pros and cons. Heart said we had to try, head said quit while you are ahead - it IS tough! We went with the heart, and am so glad we did (perfectly healthy 3 yr old now) but the money we spent has been lost - we accept that, but it is OUR money lost, and not anyone elses
 
Bakedbean - he is a miniature in that he has been bred from horses that come under the miniature horse catagory and he will mature under 34" but he is a dwarf miniature in every respect. So regardless of when he was born he would always have been born a dwarf. Dwarfs are not as a result of being premature but as a result of obtaining a dwarf gene from each parent. There is alot of research at the moment on trying to understand dwarfism and trying to identify the gene responsible in an attempt to prevent this breeding. Responsible miniature breeders will do anything to avoid such a foal but there are those irresponsible and those will lack of knowledge surrounding it that will strive to produce the smallest horse alive even if they take the chance of producing a dwarf. Anyone can google "dwarf miniature horses" will be able to see the full extent of how this miniatures life is to be.

Also put "thumbalina miniature horse" in you tube (sorry on phone so cant put link up ) and see whether you ( not aimed at anyone, meaning in general ) would donate money to give this foal a life that thumbalina has.
 
just to let you all know that i didnt donate, after reading the article properly and listening to the video i totally agree with what your all saying, it is a shame and the poor little guy seems to have suffered emmensely already.. i hope they do the right thing by him :-(
 
I read an article and by the sounds of it, the owner wants to put him through surgery because she thinks he will break the record for smallest pony. Poor little thing.
 
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