babymare
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This thread is not about horses who have numerous ailments such as yours. I certainly wouldn't sell on a horse with sidebone, navicular and arthritis and not many ethical horse owners would.. . . he has navicular, sidebone and arthritis . . .
. . . but I truly resent the idea that by being pragmatic about his future, I consider him to be "disposable."
So let me get this straight . . . it's preferable to pass unsuitable, or lame horses from pillar to post rather than either finding them a home in a field somewhere as a companion (if they will retire sound and not kill either themselves or another horse in such a situation) or putting them to sleep?
No, according to a rather strange group of posters on HHO, its better to humanely kill horses as soon as they reach a certain age, go lame, start refusing jumps or napping on hacks and who generally have the bad luck in life to have a series of owners who have caused them to have very mild behavioural problems, and replace it with a similar horse once you've had a nice little rest a few years later. Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.
No, according to a rather strange group of posters on HHO, its better to humanely kill horses as soon as they reach a certain age, go lame, start refusing jumps or napping on hacks and who generally have the bad luck in life to have a series of owners who have caused them to have very mild behavioural problems, and replace it with a similar horse once you've had a nice little rest a few years later. Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.
Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.
No, according to a rather strange group of posters on HHO, its better to humanely kill horses as soon as they reach a certain age, go lame, start refusing jumps or napping on hacks and who generally have the bad luck in life to have a series of owners who have caused them to have very mild behavioural problems, and replace it with a similar horse once you've had a nice little rest a few years later. Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.
The horse I would be looking for would be a weight carrier that my novice husband could ride, so she probably wouldn't be suitable. But if I was looking for one for myself, then she would be. I was just making the point that there ARE very good homes out there for horses even that are being given away. Obviously you have to be very careful, but selling any horse is a risk, no matter what they are worth as you can never guarantee their future.
No, according to a rather strange group of posters on HHO, its better to humanely kill horses as soon as they reach a certain age, go lame, start refusing jumps or napping on hacks and who generally have the bad luck in life to have a series of owners who have caused them to have very mild behavioural problems, and replace it with a similar horse once you've had a nice little rest a few years later. Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.
No, according to a rather strange group of posters on HHO, its better to humanely kill horses as soon as they reach a certain age, go lame, start refusing jumps or napping on hacks and who generally have the bad luck in life to have a series of owners who have caused them to have very mild behavioural problems, and replace it with a similar horse once you've had a nice little rest a few years later. Alternatively, to buy such a horse and keep it for a couple of years, go off riding and say that life changes mean you unexpectedly cannot afford a horse any longer and kill it humanely.
And apparently its also normal to constantly debate various different ways of humanely killing horses, constantly repeat how necessary and humane it is to euthanize such horses, and generally post high numbers of threads about killing horses humanely, over and over again.