Risking it all feature

[Patterdale]

Has anyone read it in this weeks Horse and Hound?
My jaw actually dropped.
I mean, who am I to judge, it's up to other people what they do etc but I can't help having an opinion. I can't actually believe some of the stuff I read.

What are people's opinions? There was a woman who spent £10,000 and remortgaged her house to keep her horse alive as a paddock ornament, and walked out of her job so she could drive a 3 hour round trip each day to visit him in vet hospital.
A woman who quite her job and worked as an exotic dancer so she could but a 2yo horse which was out of her price range, and beyond her means to keep along alongside the 2 she already had. The horse is now 7 and has still done nothing.
A woman who made herself homeless to keep her 4yo.

I don't mean for this post to sound bitchy, I know it's judgemental of me but like I say I can't help having an opinion. What do others think?

Don't get me wrong, I love my horses, but I certainly wouldn't put them above having enough money to live, having a place to live, or my family. To me, that's just madness.

Or am I wrong??

 

[Capriole]

No. I spent more than I should have trying to fix the unfixable, and it came out the same anyway, but with added stress and misery for both me and the horse.

I wouldn't do it again.

The above examples, suppose they can do as they like. I don't know their circumstances, if they were single and child-free fair enough, it's when it negatively impacts on a partner, a family, and the family home, I think that's wrong to do.

 

[Patterdale]

No. I spent more than I should have trying to fix the unfixable, and it came out the same anyway, but with added stress and misery for both me and the horse.

I wouldn't do it again.

The above examples, suppose they can do as they like. I don't know their circumstances, if they were single and child-free fair enough, it's when it negatively impacts on a partner, a family, and the family home, I think that's wrong to do.

Agree. I've done it before, kept a horse going longer than I should and wasted a whole lot of money before the inevitable end. I would NOT (and have not) go through it again.
At the time I was younger and single.
But lots of the people you see carrying on like this have families.
I don't know how people can think 'oh I have 2 horses but I want another. Can't afford to keep or buy it but hey ho!'

 

[Magicmillbrook]

In many cases this is not in the horses best interests. Its like the so called horse rescue centres who then need rescuing themselves. I can appreciate someone trying to afford to pay for treatment for a horse they already own and love, but to buy more when you can't afford them is irresponsible.