Real numpty question........do you send the passport when loaning out your horse????

[Rosie2407]

Hello,

when my mare went out on loan I sent her passport with her as they were going to be taking her to shows etc. I kept a photocopy at home and I also called to issuer and adv them that the horse was going on loan.
They noted on their records that the horse was on loan and that at no stage should a change of ownership be done without my say so.

Prob not really watertight but it put my mind at rest!

 

[Donkeymad]

It's fairly simple to be honest.

The law states the passport must be with the primary carer of the horse. In this case, that is the loaner. It would be illegal for you to keep the passport from the loaner.

Whether you choose to abide by this law or not, of course is your own choice. But the black and white answer is yes, you do.

If you choose not to then bewarned - if your loanee knows their stuff well enough, you might find they kick up a fuss if you don't pass it onto them, especially if they are planning on competing the pony. In these days of VOSA clamp downs I wouldn't consider traveling a horse without a passport.

Also, please be aware the passport is no security at all. I ended up applying for a passport for a 15 year old pony, well after the 'all horses must be passported by' date, and not one person batted an eyelid or queried why this old pony suddenly needed a brand new passport.

This is the CORRECT answer.
If you don't trust the loaner with the Passport, why trust them with your horse??

 

[annaellie]

My boy is out on full loan and the the loanee has his passport, its a legal requirement. If I was concerned I would not loan the horse out and I have seen at Beeston and expect sales up and down the country horses taken there and get a new passport done there and then and then entered into the sales and sold. No questions asked These horses were sold not long after passports first came into force but I imagine its still the same and lucky these horses were not stolen.

 

[skychick]

Hello,

when my mare went out on loan I sent her passport with her as they were going to be taking her to shows etc. I kept a photocopy at home and I also called to issuer and adv them that the horse was going on loan.
They noted on their records that the horse was on loan and that at no stage should a change of ownership be done without my say so.

Prob not really watertight but it put my mind at rest!

Thats a good idea to ring the issuer to tell them that he is going out on loan.
I will do that as well as keeping a couple of copies of the origional passport at home.

Thanks everyone.