RADIO 2 - NOW!!!! POTTERS

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silversox

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Discussing horses and ponies being slaughtered unnecessarily.

Blaming the abbatoir is down-right ridiculous. It is one of the best places around and I have no problems sending horses that need to be put down there.

Also discussing over-breeding.

Listen now!!!!
 
There are far far worse things than death for many horses and ponies. At least in the UK the average transportation from auction or home to slaughterhouse is 5 hours. Once again it's the same old over-breeding and indescriminate breeding of ponies that end up with no value and are no longer wanted.
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I would have my horse put down at home (and indeed have done once). My horses are my friends and it is the least I could do, I have visited Potters (unintentionally) and would never send my horses there. My horse was injected in his paddock with me beside him and was out of it before he hit the floor. He knew nothing and had a mouth full of grass as he died. I cannot understand why anyone who loves their horses send them to the abbatoir unless of course it is down to money, what is it they pay you per kilo? (Bit different to a bill for a couple of hundred quid for euthanasia and disposal).
 
moneypit - I didn't hear the show so forgive me if I've missed the point completely, but that is all very well for horses who have loving owners who are happy to do that for them, but what about the poor horses who don't have owners like you? Their options are probably to go from sale to sale until the meat man buys them and ships them (by road) to Italy or somewhere
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Surely it is better they are PTS by abbatoirs here in the UK than passed from home to home by people who don't want them or are subjected to an appalling journey across the continent to end in exactly the same way?
 
I agree actually, it is better than shipping them abroad its just that so many owners have the choice and ship them off to the abbatoir to get a few quid when it needn't be like that. Its just so sad.
 
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