NEDs ASSISTANCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HORSE CRIME!

[MHOL]

In the fight against horse crime NED has once again come to our assistance, we yet again had a horse out on loan which the owner had been told had to be destroyed and without the access to NED we would not be aware that the horse had not died.

NED is a vital facility which we cannot afford to lose.

The owner of this mare is desperate to find the truth and this mare

 

[CrazyMare]

NED (National Equine Database) is NOT always up to date.

A horse may have been destroyed, but for that information to make it to NED, the owner/loaner would have to had notified the PIO that the horse was destroyed, and they would have then had to have sent the up to date information to NED.

I think I can find several horses I know who have been destroyed still listed as alive on NED. I held them when they went, so no doubts there, but the information does not always pass through speedily or at all.

 

[MHOL]

Confirmation of the date the information was entered by the new owner was after the horse was so say "destroyed" due to behaviour issues which has led the owner to believe her horse is alive and well.

NED is only responsible for information fed to them by PIO

 

[MHOL]

We contacted the NED Database recently over a change of ownership of Henna /Prendera Passion, this mare has now been traced very much alive although the real owner was advised by the loanee that she had been destroyed a few years before, without the facilities of NED this information would of been a total loss. We had tried to find the mare in 2010 when she was advised she was destroyed due to behaviour issues, the owner was threatened when she pressed for further info but kept an eye on NED so was surprised to see a photo and details uploaded to her deceased mares details earlier this month.

Many of us were very sceptical that NED appeared at roughly the same time that Defra was adamant that it was going to impose a horse tax on all horse owners and obviously demanding that all horse passport agencies information had to be put on NED made their intending horse tax so much easier to implement. The horse tax went by the by and obviously NED is of no further use to Defra???


Many of us working against horse crime are adamant that we need NED and not to lose it, it's utterly ridiculous.

There is also a message that needs to go out that anyone who has loaned their horse out only to be told it had died needs verification that this is the case because this isn't the first "deceased" horse we have found!!

This case has yet to be resolved and there are two innocent parties in pieces this weekend.