ponies being tagged

[rockyluver09]

Just a little warning that a number of ponies have been tagged in the somerset area with disks or a plait/tangle of the mane. Also the people have been comin at night and the retrieving of the ponies the next day it has been reported to the police but just a little warning .

 

[montydonkey]

I have heard this about plaits to - was on the local radio while I was driving home, been happening on the hampshire wiltshire boarder. I believe the police (wiltshire I think) are doing some advice / marking day tomorrow (saturday) in the Tidworth area. Sorry for being vague,wasn't paying enough attention

 

[MHOL]

A number have been tagged? And then coming at night and retrieved the next day? I think there would of been a national alert gone out across Horse Watch but no nothing. Another new poster

talking to a local villian who is well used to serious equine activities. He thinks it is really funny and laughed his head off when I told him.

Qoute "Someone is making a monkey out of you lot".

If you want to worry yourselves sick, go ahead, personally i think people are going round plaiting manes to start a panic (as there are so many being plaited) best thing you can do is get your horse freezemarked and microchipped, associate yourself with your horse on NED Online and in the notes say this horse is not to be sold or intended for human consumption and join horse watch, have like minded people cover your back and look out for you.

No one is taking a photo and sending them in to compare, its just new posters claiming its true, no crime reference numbers.

And before you start I know you are going to say well i would rather be warned, you know the risks, be proactive not reactive!

 

[_HP_]

I expect all these ponies have long manes. Are there any incidences of plaits in pulled, short manes?

 

[_HP_]

This was my pony this morning...same as I find her many mornings in winter for the past 11 yrs

Is this the sort of thing people are finding? IN which case, its just a tangle from the wind

 

[*hic*]

I've posted several times that my friendly valuable horses with their short pulled manes have never been touched whilst my long-maned, elderly Welsh who is terrified of newcomers and won't usually even let us put a head collar in is frequently "tagged".

Nice wind-tangle in your pony's mane though

 

[MHOL]

Thats exactly what people are getting worried about, amazing though aren't they? You wouldn't believe the wind could do that but it does, its called a fairy stirrup.

Thieves would not take the chance to plait an unknown horse, and ) Risk being seen and B) That someone will spot the plait before they get a chance to get in there and nick it.

As i have said before, they come in the dead of night, and load the horses they want, man handled into a lorry or trailer.

 

[equineeyes]

Have you ever had a horse or pony stolen?..... NO.
Well I have and they did not come in the dead of night and grab her and she did have a plait in her mane 2 days before (never had one like it before or since) so please if people want to warn others let them get on with it and stop trying to make out it is all rubbish.
Can PM my crime reference if you need proof but will not put onto the forum for obvious reasons.

 

[_HP_]

Please don't think I am trying to rubbish all this.It is every owners nightmare to find their horse/pony has been taken. My query was genuine. Are there any 'tags' in short pulled manes?
It does seem a bit of an odd thing to do to 'plait' the mane as of a pony you want to steal especially as we're all talking about it so much. Also, of all the people that have come on here to warn us - not one hasproduced a photo of an actual plait. There was one I think of a tangle just like the ones my pony gets very winter but none of an actual or more obvious 'tag'.

 

[equineeyes]

Sorry, did not mean any offence I just get mad when people say things like 'they come in the dead of night and grab them' when it is not true.
Did not take a pic of the 'tag' because at the time I did not know what it was but it is not like the fairy plaits that people are posting pics of on the forum.
I have spoken to other people (all with crime reference numbers like myself) who described the same type of plait as I found just before their horses/ponys were stolen I know a couple had quiet long manes but one was a t/b type mare with a pulled mane.

 

[lhotse]

I'm pretty sure that missinghorsesonloan is more aware of what is going on than most on here, being as she is a horeswathc co-ordinator and having close links with the information coming from the police.

Stop the scaremongering, it's getting boring.

 

[Tinseltoes]

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I'm pretty sure that missinghorsesonloan is more aware of what is going on than most on here, being as she is a horeswathc co-ordinator and having close links with the information coming from the police.

Stop the scaremongering, it's getting boring.

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"missinghorseonloan" She should know as you said,shes part of horsewatch.

 

[MHOL]

I can sympathise with people who have had their horses stolen, but truth is, they do come in the dead of night, very few are brazen to take horses in daylight unless they know the routine of the yard or know the routine of the owners.

What prompted me to comment on this thread, is once again new posters are claiming a few horses have been stolen in one area, there are no alerts and no crime reference numbers, if horses were going missing like this then there would be a message sent to every co-ordinator.

 

[lhotse]

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20...gid=20356930863

As can be seen, the facebook group is going strong, hell, this one might even make it to the spring ith all this weather we're having.

 

[_HP_]

Just to add another piccie...I untangled pony's mane this morning and when I went to check her this afternoon I found another. This looks more like a plait to me but is still a wind tangle IMO...

 

[lhotse]

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I'm pretty sure that missinghorsesonloan is more aware of what is going on than most on here, being as she is a horeswathc co-ordinator and having close links with the information coming from the police.

Stop the scaremongering, it's getting boring.

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"missinghorseonloan" She should know as you said,shes part of horsewatch.

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Sorry, what the hell was going on with my spelling there!! I haven't even got to the pub yet

 

[Tinseltoes]

My section A gets twists,tangkes all the time ,has to be the wind as she doesnt like people and is unfriendly.

 

[wiloafiz]

Hollypots if you are in North Devon i would be very cautious about those 'plaits' (i know what backlash i will get from this reply but meh) Hemyock has had repeated reports of plaited ponies shetlands n racehorses, and thats pretty close to devon border tiverton etc. in 16years of owning horses i have never seen tangles like that and yes i have had welsh mountain and dartmoor breeds to me that looks like a plait with the three strands, please check gateways hedges etc for any other markers.

 

[_HP_]

Wilofiz...thanks for the warning. Believe me, regardless of my thoughts on these plaits/tangles/whatever they are, there are plenty of people on watch including frequent visits to the field plus the cottage that overlooks the field, not to mention the resident YO.
There are no others signs that I can see. She shares a field with others and nothing on them or around the field.
I have owned her for 11 yrs and every single year she has these tangles.