Poor little mite - selling for £95!

lorraine&comet said:
wish i could buy them all :(
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Trouble with that is you are just encouraging that seller to go and buy yet more bargain bucket specials to sell to those not hard hearted enough to say no. Catch 22. You feel sorry for it, and buy it, and he will have a new one in its place in no time at all. And thus the circle goes on.
 
If you are unhappy about any ad report the web site to the Advertising standards authority ASA, you can do it on line.
www.asa.org.uk/
This will not affect the vender but if there are enough complaints the web site will have problems and hopefully stop taking these ads, rember they are making money from these web sites so they are just as culpable.
I complained about an ad on Adhorse and within 2 hours it was pulled.
As to the price of ponies, at the sales, some of them for £10 or less. I think the bottem price I have seen is 2gns
http://www.brightwells.com/Libraries/Welsh_Pony_Hay_on_Wye_Breeders_Sale_Results/2010.sflb.ashx
 
You are talking about a yard that has already been checked over many times by welfare agencies. The owner was prosecuted by Trading Standards. He has a high turnover (meaning that the horses don't stay with him for very long, so, to be honest, their poor condition is the way he brought them). It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it certainly isn't the next Amersham as suggested on the previous page. If anyone is concerned why not go and have a look and make up your own mind? I'm not posting this in support of the dealer, just saying that rather than look at the advert and make assumptions, why not go and look for yourselves?
 
I have, and it was horrendous; stallions in a big open barn with mares and foals, foals lying on the concrete yard, whilst others wandered about with leadropes dragging and being trodden on a t every step. None had access to water, food or clean bedding. Sarcoids and open wounds seemed to be on most of the animals, and all looked depressed, and dull.
There was also a weird lean-to thing that was about foal height, and width, with 3 or 4 almost certainly far too early weaned foals in.
My farrier's apprentice came from the area and the tales that he told were horrendous (not sure how true they were though).
Very Victorian.
 
When I went there, there were big hay bales all around the yard and several big tubs of water.
According to the RSPCA that's ok :(
the fact that some of them are tied up to shopping trolleys and walking/sleeping on a concrete yard covered in **** is another thing...
 
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