Please please be careful who you loan your horses to

[Moomin1]

Regardless of being on loan or not who would do this to a horse (or any animal) and not look and think the horse is suffering. How can people be so blind. And i worked for HAPPA many years ago and thought had seen worse. Now adays its horrific and constant. will it end?

You worked for HAPPA and never saw worse that that?!! Really?

Wow!

 

[cptrayes]

I sold mine and rescued him four months later from a really smart yard in Cambridge looking a lot worse than that I found out later that it wasn't the first horse she'd starved, either. Happy to provide a name and photos to anyone selling to that area.

 

[Ladyinred]

I sold mine and rescued him four months later from a really smart yard in Cambridge looking a lot worse than that I found out later that it wasn't the first horse she'd starved, either. Happy to provide a name and photos to anyone selling to that area.

Trying to recall.. was yours the horse you found on Facebook with a photo of him in the corner of a field trying to eat leaves on a tree?

 

[nikkimariet]

It's more common than you think...

Years back we had one of ours on sales livery with a reputable 'name'.

He left ours looking like the proverbial out house. Picked him up as an unrecognizable bag of bones

 

[cptrayes]

Trying to recall.. was yours the horse you found on Facebook with a photo of him in the corner of a field trying to eat leaves on a tree?

No, I was really lucky, she leased him to someone who could not even ride him, he was so thin and ill with a nasty cough. That person used his proper name to trace his eventing record, and bless someone at BE who broke the rules and gave her my name and address. We plotted for a week how to force her to sell him back to us and went and got him home.

The RSPCA were prepared to prosecute but my vet at the time didn't want to give evidence in a court a long way away.


To complete the fairy story, I then gave him to the person who had leased him, who then took him home with her to Colorado!! He was adored for every day of the rest of his life.

 

[cptrayes]

It's more common than you think...

Years back we had one of ours on sales livery with a reputable 'name'.

He left ours looking like the proverbial out house. Picked him up as an unrecognizable bag of bones

Shocking

Don't tell me, he billed you the livery fees for doing that too?

 

[TheHairyOne]

Trying to recall.. was yours the horse you found on Facebook with a photo of him in the corner of a field trying to eat leaves on a tree?

That was my sisters horse.

Happy to report he's doing amazingly and has a fabulous sharer/loaner who's doing all sorts with him and it's lovely to have his big grey face back in the field!

However, she now has another horse on loan. Thankfully is at a yard where we know people who are keeping an eye on things this time. The horse world sometimes seems a very small place, but sometimes very big when things like this just slip off the radar.

 

[Ladyinred]

That was my sisters horse.

Happy to report he's doing amazingly and has a fabulous sharer/loaner who's doing all sorts with him and it's lovely to have his big grey face back in the field!

However, she now has another horse on loan. Thankfully is at a yard where we know people who are keeping an eye on things this time. The horse world sometimes seems a very small place, but sometimes very big when things like this just slip off the radar.

So pleased to read this. He looked dreadful, poor boy. Sometimes these stories do have good endings, like yours and cptrayes.