Poll: For Adults Only

Do You Agree with the Death Penalty

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So on reading the post about how attached we all are to our horses and ponies, I have had this thought for all of my adult life. There will always be the odd one to buck the trend but I thought I'd just do a quick poll to see what really happens to all of those horses and ponies we love so much as children.

So this poll is open to anyone 25 years old and older (sorry youngsters).
 
I'm 24 so not allowed to enter the poll!

However, my first pony was on loan, although didn't have an owner because he died!
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He went to another loan home but it was a bit awful because they let him get fat and his dodgy old gets caught up with him and he was PTS shorty afterwards.
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He was about 30 though so didn't have a bad life!
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Sold my other 2 ponies.
 
When my sister and I outgrew 13.2 Punch he was sold to a local family and was very successful with them and they kept him until he died in his late 30's. I was sad when he was sold but by that time i was more interested in boys discos etc so selling him was definitely the right thing to do for him.
 
i sold my boy,gilr was told by a riding school that he was wonderful and they just turned up out of the blue one day and asked if he was for sale !!
i said no but parents said yes as he was getting to small for me and they wanted him to go on and make another child happy etc of which he did.
i cried loading him,i went in lorry with them to his new home and cried again when unloading him !!!
but kept going to see him afterwards
his new family where so happy with him and he was happy too
hes the coloured in my sig !
 
hmmm.

I would have kept her, but my parents decided that we should move overseas and so they sold her. If we had stayed there, then yes we would have kept her as she cost virtually nothing to keep, I would never outgrow her, and she was "the one" for me.
 
I voted still have - my dear pony became a brood mare and we kept her to the end of her days. Did think about loaning her, but decided the only people that wanted loan horses were dangerous muppets

I am now competing her babies and 3rd generation is hopefully on its way!!
 
i only sold him cos i was 12 and seriously outvoted... mum said i could only have a bigger one if i sold him, and i was knocking down jumps with my feet as he cleared them.
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he'll be long gone now, but i still feel a bit guilty.
good horses and ponies make their own luck though, i believe, in a lot of cases. he was a great little pony, and i know he landed on his feet and went to a lad who hunted him a lot, which the pony would have loved.
 
I didn't sell her but she was pts in 2001. Mainly as she was retired anyway and so was worth nothing but she had also had a hard life before we got her and I didn't want her passed from pillar to post. She went out on loan as a companion for 6 months but was mistreated so we took her back. She was 27 when she died and I had gone right through pony club with her. She was a superstar pony and I did love her to bits, she was pretty much all my teenage memories
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Yep - I'm with Trec Peter! Got my 'childhood pony' (not sure my 16hh would agree with that description!) at 40 too - a present to myself! He's not going anywhere! I doubt I'll ever have the problem of knocking poles off with my feet!
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Ok not adult but think its fair to say an adult when it comes to horses, because my parents roughly know I own and horse and thats about it. Yes that pony ment everything to me, we were going to take over the world and I swore never to sell her, I worked out I'd still be poo picking for her when I'm 40 (at the time I was 13) but a time came when I knew I had to sell her and move on to a horse. Selling and buying new horse is easy bit, there lots to distract you. Its letting go, I was blessed with Liberty because she went to such a perfect home. The more horses you have the more you relise you will have this relationship with all the horses you own, maybe because you treat them like a child.

I think I'm probs abit selfish I want my riding to make it and if a horse isn't gonig to take me there its not fair on anybody.
 
I sold my 12.2 when I was 13 and far too heavy for him anymore.

I've had my 14.2 I bought with the money from the first pony now for 12 years (am coming up 26). He is now 17 and after a brief retirement in the middle of our relationship for a couple of years we are back competing and having fun - he's never been fitter. He is my forever pony and will never be sold. So yes I'd say I still have one of my childhood ponies!
 
I never had any say in what happened to the horses of my youth as they were all owned by my grandparents. My grandparents eventually sold their horse farm when I was about 13 and then they boarded a couple of the horses for a few years until horses were taken from my life out of no choice of mine altogether .

My mother could not afford to get me horses of my own once the farm was gone and we moved into the city . I had to involve myself with horses in any other way possible. I would work at stables and be around them any way possible until I was in a position is life to buy my own horses .
Looking back, having those years in the city was good for me and just what I needed.

I did have close bonds with every horse from my youth that my family had though and still get very sentimental when I think of each one.

especially Lucky (the horse I am riding at age 5 in my sig)
 
My first pony was sold on, but i don't remember her as much as 2nd 2 who were both kept until they died/were PTS. Really they would have been too old to have been loaned/sold anyway and we "acquired" both of them after having them on loan!!
 
Should've said i'm havin more of a dilema of what to do with current horse as i class him as my first proper horse - 1st one officially owned, without my aunties help, thought i'd have him til he died, but now i'm thinking of selling/loaning.
 
Ok not quite elegible for poll yet but I got my first pony when I was 11, 13 years ago and he's now 20. No way would I have sold him, even though we got a lot of very good offers for him. My sister who's now 11 is riding him and had a great season on him, won everything. He's a little superstar and is definitely part of the family, we've had him longer than my sister!!!!
 
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