Power to seize fly grazed animals on the spot.

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pennyturner

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I'm well aware of issues with fly grazing, but very alarmed by the proposed seizure powers. I had someone call an equine charity last year because they saw my unrugged natives and assumed they were being fly grazed. If the local authority had 'seized them on the spot' (FROM MY OWN LAND!), presumably I'd either be racing to pay for their release before they were euthanased or defending spurious welfare claims as they tried to back up their position.

Anyone else worried about potential mistakes?
 
pennyturner said:
I'm well aware of issues with fly grazing, but very alarmed by the proposed seizure powers. I had someone call an equine charity last year because they saw my unrugged natives and assumed they were being fly grazed. If the local authority had 'seized them on the spot' (FROM MY OWN LAND!), presumably I'd either be racing to pay for their release before they were euthanased or defending spurious welfare claims as they tried to back up their position.

Anyone else worried about potential mistakes?
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I don't think LA will be driving round the country picking up horses, things don't happen like that........ there will be formal notification IF they can't find anyone responsible.
 
Presumably the authorities would only be removing horses under the new powers, after receiving complaints from the landowners themselves..... so your hypothetical situation wouldn't arise, unless you had a serious memory lapse...
 
its already started happening with tethered horses
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/foru...d-horses-in-this-area&p=12157542#post12157542

but i think that they are only seizing horses from council land , i think yours on your own land will be find although people who tether on council land need to find somewhere more suitable to keep there horses

they were also all given plenty of notice this was going to happen before they were actually seized
 
Many years ago all our ponies were tethered on vacant land with the owners permission. And, let me hasten to add, very well cared for and loved. There is nothing basically wrong with tethering a horse.

If I was doing it today and they'd been seized, the person who seized them would be in court pretty damned quick for a variety of offences -- not least of all for theft, detinue, criminal damage, and anything else I could think of.
 
Can't see it happening anytime soon around here, there are too many horses and nowhere to put them as it is, unless they were euthanised rather than impounded, and the costs involved of impounding a horse indefinitely when the owner is unlikely to come forwards to pay a fine / livery costs would be prohibitive I think.
 
LittleBlackMule said:
Presumably the authorities would only be removing horses under the new powers, after receiving complaints from the landowners themselves..... so your hypothetical situation wouldn't arise, unless you had a serious memory lapse...
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I would have thought this too, before being on the receiving end of some nosey parker's assumption that lots of hairy ponies = fly grazing. It was irritating, but it would have been less funny if there'd been some kind of authority involved.

touchstone said:
Can't see it happening anytime soon around here, there are too many horses and nowhere to put them as it is, unless they were euthanised rather than impounded, and the costs involved of impounding a horse indefinitely when the owner is unlikely to come forwards to pay a fine / livery costs would be prohibitive I think.
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The report on H+H talks about 14 days to claim before the horse is euthanased!
 
I think it is an excellent idea but doubt, as has been said, that anyone other than the landowner reporting it would make it unlikely to happen.
 
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