Saving horses

[Charlie10]

I am lucky enough to have the use of some stables and grazing for free and I have my own boy, but every so often I find a neglected pony that needs tlc and bring them home, my latest was a black colt foal who was in a touch and go condition, any way 9 months later he was back to full health and being very coltish, he was about, 18month and only had one ball down, after speaking with my vet he was going to need an opp with the min figure of £350 to 1000s depending on whether they could find the other, well to cut a long story short, I couldn't afford to do this for him, so I tryed to rehome him, after 3 months I had no joy so I rang round a couple of horse rescues and charities, when I have had filly's mares ect they have been there the Next day and collected them, WELL 3 different charities told me that the kindist thing to do was to put this little man to sleep, I was heart broken, luckily a friend of a friend found a fantastic home for him and he has been under the knife,
I just can not behave that the charities where telling me to put him to sleep,
Well since then I now have two Shetland mares one is so skinny its unbeleavable and the other is very neglected and scared, so the rehab starts again, and hopefully I will find these two beautiful girls a new home when there back up to health

 

[Moomin1]

Oh dear. I do hope you can afford hefty vet bills if they need it. Horses that are 'so skinny it's unbelievable' often need quite a lot of money spent to bring them back up to health.

IMO many would be better being pts in the current climate, rather than passed from pillar to post.

 

[Theocat]

I'm afraid the charities are full up. If you can't find a non-charity home to pass these horses on to, i think you need to be prepared to keep them on long-term yourself.

 

[Nudibranch]

To be honest you need to make sure you have the money for these kinds of things, otherwise its not fair on the animals and not really rescuing them is it?
Can you guarantee their long term wellbeing once you have moved them on?
For these reasons, rescuing is usually best left to the charities, who can pay whatever vets bills are required and loan them rather than give away or sell.