Poor Pony

humph

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I'd love someone's advice. Every time I drive to Tesco in Dursley (glos) I pass this house which is an ordinary suburban home but with a somewhat scruffy garden with a skip, children's trampoline and other messy stuff in it.

Sometimes, but not always, when I pass it the gates are shut and there is a palomino pony living in the garden surrounded by all this clutter. The low wall around the garden could be jumped by the tiniest of ponies but this one seems to stay put.

I suspect that any horse charities wouldn't be able to help because the pony has grass to eat and, I presume, has access to water and I have to admit the pony looks in perfectly good health.

But I just feel that this is no way to keep a pony and, although he seems in good enough health at the moment, with owners that don't seem to know enough about how a pony should be kept, I worry about him in time to come.

Does anyone have any advice as to what I could do to help - I don't have the space, nor a child to ride him, to take him on myself. Am I just being a busy body?
 

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Maybe stop the car and have a closer look at the pony. If its in good condition and its feet are looked after etc, then its not an ideal situation but I'd mind my own business. If it isn't, its a welfare issue and worth reporting.
 

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It may be perfectly well looked after, and there's just a chance it quite enjoys being close to people and investigating the trampoline!
Agree with pp if the pony looks in good health, feet done etc, then I doubt it lives there all the time and is probably just lawn mowing, could be a good starvation paddock!
Turning the deranged nutcases of the RSPCA onto someone is not to be taken lightly. Maybe cut them some slack and call the Gestapo?
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PS I'm past caring this week, so don't bother flaming me about that, it can't get any worse
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I would think that if it's not always there then they could just be putting it there after they have ridden from the yard to the house and are giving it a rest before they go back.

If it looks in good health then it probably is and if you don't know these people or have ever seen them actually abusing or hurting the horse then you should have no reason to believe anything else!!!

Please don't be one of those people who sends out the RSPCA for no reason and causes a lot of bother for the owners. If you do stop and see the horse in any kind of discomfort then of course you should do what is best but from what you have described I can't see any reason to report it. IMO!
 

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sorry, yorks g, usually agree with you, but pony is in good health, probs turned out for a go on the tramp now and again
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why on earth do the owners need educating?
pony is probably far happier than tucked up in a 12x12 cube 24/7, living life a little, and mugging the postman for polos.
lighten up a little, peeps!
 
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