Minxy the little fallabella needs our help

Shocking that he should have been 'allowed' to live this long. Poor thing has nothing to look forward to and is a travesty of the beautiful creature we know as a horse.

His breeder should be taken to task over this :(
 
I hope that you get some progress with that BB, however it seems a little doubtful that they will take much action :( It seems too likely that the 'cute little horse' will be 'treated' and the welfare societies will take no action. I wonder if a letter to regulatory body for vets would be in order, as it seems highly unethical to me to take the money for doing the operation.
 
That is disgusting. Poor little creature. There is no way he should be kept alive in his condition. The people responsible for this make me very angry.
 
Poor little scrap! The comment under the article at least tells it how it is.

£6,000 for the breeders to break a record and then fund the next 'experiment' :mad:
 
hoorah for all your facebook comments, I seemed to be the only one speaking up for a while there! Lets hope some sense gets through to its moron owner
 
On the itv video she says he's going to a specialist monday, I hope to god that they tell her straight to pts.
 
Horrific, disgusting, despicable, put the poor pony to sleep and then shoot the breeder.

Makes me sick to see this poor animal suffer so she can break records, aww i'm getting more angry thinking about it.

And all the comments under the pictures like "I want to stay with my mummy forever but I don't know if I can, i'm scared" what a load of crap, that's just to make people feel pity and donate money to her, she's wicked and the more people let her know the better :(:(
 
And what will she do with the money I wonder? If the attending vet takes the ethical stance that to operate would not be in the animals best interests, then will she have kept a record of where the money came from, or will end up being used for some other puepose?
 
The thing is, because dwarfism is a recessive gene, you could breed two apparantly healthy miniature horses together and end up with a dwarf. There are also different types of dwarves, and different degrees, and many 'minimal dwarves' could, and do, go on to live 'normal' lives.

Any responsible breeder would, hopefully, take both mare & stallion that have produced a dwarf out of the genepool. Unfortunately, not every breeder will do that... some may continue to breed from said mare & stallion but to different stock (i.e not repeat the mating), some may sell said mare &/or stallion - without telling purchasers that the animal has produced a dwarf. Hell, some will breed from animals with dwarf characteristics in the hope that they will not pass the characteristics onto offspring. But the gene is still there...

It is not really anything to do with breeding for size, as said before it is a recessive gene, and is not just found in minis, other breeds have produced dwarves - fresians spring to mind off the top of my head. However it is more common in minis.... although that doesn't make it common in minis (if that makes sense!), and more so in the states than over here - likely because of the sheer numbers of minis in the states compared to the UK.
Dwarves are a bit of a taboo subject sometimes with regards to minis, breeders may have bred dwarves but will sometimes not own up to it for fear of ruining their stud & horse's names... as Stinkbomb said there are a few people in the states who have dedicated their lives to studying the dwarfism gene & are trying to come up with a test for it... but while there are still breeders out there who are in it for the money (or whatever reason they give) rather than for bettering the breed, it's not going to be eradicated any time soon.

Most of the extreme dwarves do not live very long, and will die due to things like impactions - their internal organs continue to grow to the same as a full size mini, which causes the pot bellies. There are breeders and vets and owners that will state that their dwarves are not in pain and lead a happy life, for whatever duration that may be. My personal view is that horses are prey & flight animals & any horse that cannot move around properly, cannot keep up with a herd etc, are probably not living a happy life.... and who knows whether they are in pain or not?

The fact that the owner in the video repeatedly says how happy he is & how he's always 'smiling,' how he could have had other problems like small ears ('cause that would really ruin a mini's day wouldn't it, small ears, **** being able to walk properly :rolleyes: ) makes me think she's probably a bit dim, and a bit naive, and possibly thinks she's doing the best thing by her animal by giving him every chance, and the bl00dy vet wants shooting for supporting her, he will never live a 'normal' life no matter what surgery is performed.
It's also possible that the vet has advised euthanasia & the owner has refused, although the vet is then within their rights to refuse to operate I believe :confused: which doesn't seem to be the case.

I really hope someone or something will open up this lady's eyes to what she is putting that poor mite through, sooner rather than later. :(
 
pastie2 said:
Why dont these breeders get their miniture satisfaction by breeding Tea Cup bleddy dogs.
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They're already starting to be born with deformed legs or in some cases, 'stumps' but it doesn't get talked about too much...would interfere with the cashflow....

Why the obsession with shrinking things down or blowing things up (previously medium/large sized dogs being bred bigger and bigger until they suffer awful joint problems, having to support their weight, is another one....)
 
Bakedbean - there will always be contoversy between miniature horse lovers about dwarfs. No true mini lover would ever condone the deliberate breeding Of a dwarf.

There are however some mini lovers who have bred dwarfs but not deliberatly. The research shows it take a gene from each parent to produce a dwarf. Breeders could have a dwarf from a stallion or mare that in the past has produced world beaters and because its breeding partner didnt have the gene dwarfs were never produced. Then there is that one time the sire or dam is matched to the wrong partner who carries the gene and a dwarf is produced through no fault or knowledge of the breeder.

However there are those who strive to produce "tiny" and will breed a dwarf with another in the hope to produce another dwarf. Those people are dispicable. They will then sell it to those inexprienced as "rare" and charge hundreds of dollars.

Im not saying all dwarfs should be pts. I know a few of them out there that have been taken on by friends and despite a little corrective trimming they do live normal lives. They r pets though. Nothing else.

This poor dwarf has too many disabilities at birth. Its cruel to keep it alive and moraly wrong IMO
 
I'm not great on FB, but think I just sent her a message to say how sick I think she is.
And linked the PTS site on my FB with an explanation.
Poor little guy. :(

Amd 'mummy' ? WTF? Did she give birth to him?:rolleyes:
 
MurphysMinder said:
Poor little sod, deformed legs, deformed mouth, deformed neck "but he is very happy".
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I thought that. Has breathing problems too, pneumonia twice in 10 weeks - "but he is very happy and runs and plays like any other normal horse" yeah looks like it too, poor little mite hobbling round like that.
I know when humans have to use splints for twisted limbs its so painful (my niece was born with her feet twisted inwards and her legs bent) so god knows what its like for Minxy.
I quote from one of the FB pages I saw "N'awwww cute"....as long as there's a market for it, these idiotic breeders will keep churning them out and probably without doing their homework on the genes too.

K x
 
This story is on local news here in Cornwall, on Radio Cornwall today and yesterday.

I haven't read all the posts, I'm just giving my gut feeling, which is that he should be PTS.
 
This is sadly a sign of how odd peoples priorities are, every effort is made to prolong the life of one sad little deformed foal,while elsewhere overbreeding is seeing potentially healthy and useful youngsters being neglected and ending up in poor condition going into sales and probably for slaughter. Vets will earn themselves no respect in helping to prolong this ponys life, the owners are the ones responsible and should make the right choice not try for world records.
 
be positive said:
This is sadly a sign of how odd peoples priorities are, every effort is made to prolong the life of one sad little deformed foal,while elsewhere overbreeding is seeing potentially healthy and useful youngsters being neglected and ending up in poor condition going into sales and probably for slaughter. Vets will earn themselves no respect in helping to prolong this ponys life, the owners are the ones responsible and should make the right choice not try for world records.
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£6K would purchase and rehab a lot of those poor wormy hill ponies on Bodmin.
 
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