Please look into my eyes

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Please look deeply into my eyes.... they tell a story..... the story of my life....

Like any foal, I used to bound around in lush green pasture with other foal friends to play with, and I was protected and loved by my mother as well as the humans who used to stop and say how beautiful I was....

I grew and grew and grew, and once I had finished growing I began my training.... I was so proud, I could carry a rider and give something back to the humans who had looked after me in my younger years....

I had lovely homes, with loads of food and water.... and a human to brush me and give me cuddles..... I had everything a horse could wish for....

That was until the day I ended up on a farm with lots of others.... there was no human there to brush me or cuddle me, there was no food or water and like the others in my company I began to get thinner and thinner, some of my friends died and they laid where they fell.....Just look into my eyes to see that the spark has gone as I knew what I was destined to face.

BUT all that changed and I was taken with many friends on a lorry and once again, I have someone to love me, brush me and cuddle me.... I now have food and clean water... and the spark is returning as I once again realise I am loved..... and this has been made possible by people like you who are fighting my corner for me.... You see I dont have a voice, the only thing that tells the full story is my eyes....

Please continue to give so that other equines dont have to tell the same story through their eyes.....
 
This is the sort of thing that needs to be available to non-horsey people too to raise the awareness of what has been going on. I have been so emotional over all of this and feel helpless as so far away. Have sent money and posted on the RC website for help too.

Well done everyone for trying their best to make such a valid difference.

xx
 
Certainly gives you a lump in the throat it makes this a more emotional read writing it from the horses mouth i think people will be very touched when they read this great job!
 
VelcrobumOvidius, would you mind if i posted that onto the Cruise site i am on? i know its a car cruise site but there are horse lovers on there too.
 
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Like my friend the coloured, my eyes also tell a story, a story of endless days of total bewilderment and depression, not knowing where my fate lay, would I make it onto a lorry to meet my end? How I wished that day would come soon as I could no longer cope with standing in excrement not being free to move as I did when I was a foal.... I like my coloured friend, used to run free across lush green pasture, spending endless days basking in the glorious sunshine, eating as much as I could..... I used to hack around the countryside with my human, carrying them for miles without a care in the world, as I knew then, I would return home to a stable with a nice warm bed, hay and a hard feed and more importantly a bucket of clean fresh water..... I remember whinnying to my human when they would arrive the next morning to feed me, brush me and love me.....
Then came those days of total bewilderent.... I changed homes and I did not have the nice warm straw bed, then endless food and the undying love of a caring human.... I spent those days remembering what it used to be like and how by some small miracle those days would return.... and they now have, I am now a former shadow of myself all those years ago, my chestnut coat does not gleam with glints of copper and gold in the sunlight, but it will do..... I have a nice warm bed, food and water and the undying love and care being given by those around me now, just look into the eyes of my human standing next to me, she did not witness the horror I lived in, but her eyes also tell a story....
One day, my coat will once again shine with hues of gold and copper and I will once again whinny with love to the person who cares for me..... But I will never forget my friends who shared those months with me in darkness....

Please continue to give whatever you can.... And who knows, one day you may see a stunning chestnut whinnying at you across a field.... That will be me, showing you my gratitude for everything you have done now...
 
May I print these off and use them in my shop? I work in a pet shop near th the horse trust, and made a collection box yesterday, I have already made £28.06 from my customers. Will be donating it soon, I have the picture of the coloured on it already but would like to use the story too.
 
While feeling very emotional and sentimental thought I'd add this:


The Horse's Prayer

To thee, my master, I offer my prayer.

Feed me, water and care for me, and when the day's work is done, provide me with shelter, a clean, dry bed, and stall wide enough for me to lie down in comfort.

Always be kind to me. Your voice often means as much to me as the reins. Pet me sometimes, that I may serve you the more gladly and learn to love you.

Do not jerk the reins, and do not whip me when going uphill. Never strike, beat, or kick me when I do not understand you. Watch me, and if I fail to do your bidding, see if something is not wrong with my harness or feet.

Do not check me so that I cannot have free use of my head.

If you insist that I wear blinkers, so that I cannot see behind me as it was intended I should, I pray you be careful that the blinders stand well out of my eyes.

Do not overload me, or hitch me where water will drip on me.

Keep me well shod.

Examine my teeth when I do not eat, I may have an ulcerated tooth, and that, you know, is very painful.

Do not tie my head in an unnatural position, or take away my best defense against flies and mosquitoes by cutting off my tail.

I cannot tell you when I am thirsty, so give me clean, cool water often.

Save me, by all means in your power from that fatal disease - the glanders.

I cannot tell you in words when I am sick, so watch me, that by signs you may know my condition.

Give me all possible shelter from the hot sun, and put a blanket on me, not when I am working, but when I am standing in the cold.

Never put a frosty bit in my mouth, first warm it by holding it a moment in your hands.
I try to carry you and your burden without a murmur, and wait patiently for you long hours of the day or night.

Without the power to choose my shoes or path, I sometimes fall on hard pavement which I have often prayed might not be of wood but of such a nature as to give me safe and sure footing.

Remember that I must be ready at any moment to lose my life in your service.

And finally, OH MY MASTER, when my useful strength is gone, do not turn me out to starve or freeze, or sell me to some cruel owner, to be slowly tortured and starved to death, but do thou, My Master, take my life in the kindest way, and your God will reward you here and hereafter.

You will not consider me irreverent if I ask this in the name of Him who was born in a stable.

AMEN
 
Its the picture of the chestnut that gets to me. Reminds me of our little pony. It looks quite old, but that could just be down to its condition. At least these have hopefully got some sort of decent future ahead of them now.
 
Unfortunately a lot of these horse have NEVER had a nice life ,they were born into a hard ,cruel world .Charities should start paying for horses to be neutered[ and all other animals] then MAYBE there will be less bred to this awful life.
NO ONE should send an old horse to a sale better to have it pts
 
Good Grief everyone...i know this week has been quite shocking for some, but PLEASE get a grip...

this is all getting a bit "Evangelical" now........
 
I know this is a forum and everyone is entitled to their opinions but surely this is one topic where negative comments and views about things that people are doing are best kept to yourselves. Just this once?
 
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QR. think the facts are bad enough without people whipping themselves into a frenzy of hysteria imagining the lives of these animals and anthropomorphising.

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indeed.....

just a thought here...how many barns around the country must there be that have horses/ponies who are in exactly the same situation???

wouldnt it be a good idea to be checking out isolated barns instead of going full-tilt into something that has already "happened"....i say this because members on here have said they know this place/walked, hacked past numerous times.....

as had been said PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE....
 
agreed nicki68


besides it is human natureto anthropomorphise theiranimals and is a tactic more likely to pull on the heart and purse strings of the general public

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Good point JM07.
This whole episode has taught us to be very much more aware of how horses are kept but we should do this AS WELL not INSTEAD of!
AND we should all look at our own practises in terms of breeding, selling horses, security of our horses and planning for our horses future. None of us would want our horses to end up like these poor souls.
 
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I know this is a forum and everyone is entitled to their opinions but surely this is one topic where negative comments and views about things that people are doing are best kept to yourselves. Just this once?

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not at all......

this sort of thing goes on EVERY DAY...OK, so maybe on a smaller scale in terms of numbers but it happens...

that is the reason i donate horse charities on a regular basis...because it's on-going....

i dont think for one minute that a high percentage of those pikey ponies EVER saw grass, had someone to love them etc...but have spent the whole of their lives going from sale to sale, pikey yard to pikey yard, being used as "money"...

IT HAPPENS..........and there are loads more yards out there like this one......
 
Again JM07, I fully agree with you - there are places like Spindles farm all over the country, let alone the world. BUT this case made National news and therefore already has a higher profile.
The horsey community can capitalise on that by publicising horse charities and the general welfare of horses.
If it means tugging at some heartstrings of the general public by using some emotional prose that so be it!
Everyone here wants better protection for horses from this kind of a life. That's all.
 
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agreed nicki68


besides it is human natureto anthropomorphise theiranimals and is a tactic more likely to pull on the heart and purse strings of the general public

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I doubt that, think they were anthomorphised in the middle age or later times?
 
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