Ponies shot by gov vets on Bodmin moor

Welly said:
Why don't the commoners rule that all ponies have to come off the moor for one month, say January. This way all the ponies could be checked and any 'poor' ponies could be dealt with, also we would know the "dumped" ones as they would be left on the moor and they could be dealt with another way. This would mean that all the owners would have to own up to their responsibilities and feed/care for their ponies for at least one month of the year.
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good idea me thinks.....
 
Good idea, an even better one would be for all ponies to be off the moor. The basic free for all has ruined the breed ...(Hill Ponies my ass!)and its left to owners with their own land to breed true.

If the moor needs grazing the relevant authorities can introduce a select amount of ponies to graze as they have done in other areas. Commoners rights have a lot to answer for, and the low end market and no proper minimum value law is just feeding the fire.
 
Alec, come live down here & witness these poor animals every day as I do & you'd also be preaching from a soap box.

This story, which rightfully so made a national paper didn't make any local rags that I saw or the local news. It isn't very uncommon. Says it all, it is a regional disgrace.
 
pip6 said:
Alec, come live down here & witness these poor animals every day as I do & you'd also be preaching from a soap box.

This story, which rightfully so made a national paper didn't make any local rags that I saw or the local news. It isn't very uncommon. Says it all, it is a regional disgrace.
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It was in the western morning news and on Spotlight, so hardly left unreported.
 
Welly said:
Why don't the commoners rule that all ponies have to come off the moor for one month, say January. This way all the ponies could be checked and any 'poor' ponies could be dealt with, also we would know the "dumped" ones as they would be left on the moor and they could be dealt with another way. This would mean that all the owners would have to own up to their responsibilities and feed/care for their ponies for at least one month of the year.
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Great idea.

Our old horse came from bodmin and he was in terrible condition, turned out to be the most honest, sweet horse ever. We had him for 27yrs.
 
pip6 said:
Alec, come live down here & witness these poor animals every day as I do & you'd also be preaching from a soap box.

This story, which rightfully so made a national paper didn't make any local rags that I saw or the local news. It isn't very uncommon. Says it all, it is a regional disgrace.
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We don't have much in the way of "Commoners Grazing" here in Norfolk, but in the west country, where it does exist, it must be very difficult, assuming the reports to be correct, to see ponies pacing fence lines, because they're starving, and equally difficult to ignore them.

We have Trading Standards who's remit includes ALL forms of animal welfare, and they also have a right of entry to privately owned land, and it's THEY who should be addressing this problem. We have a Farm Team at our local TS office, and believe me, they have teeth, and they fear no one.

I suppose that the course which was taken was the correct one, but it should be unthinkable for people to either breed of buy these ponies, and then inflict a life of winter misery on them. I agree with everyone, it's a disgrace.

Alec.
 
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