Silly Silly Silly Old Yard Owner.

Mosh

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He has 2 horses, a 14 year old mare and a 35 year old gelding.
He can't be bothered to look after them anymore
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He's selling the mare for a ridiculous amount of money to be a broodmare. She can't be ridden (lots of reasons why), she hs average paces but has never jumped. I Hope they don't breed from her!
And the gelding, my lovely Dougie Man. Hes 35 and looks it but hes a sweetheart. My old yard owner wants to put him down and sometimes i think"yes, before he suffers through another winter of not being rugged" but with careful managment of his teeth and feet and actually being rugged, i think he could live another few years very happily.

I want to have them both for companions of my boy but its just not feasible.
Not a rant or anything, i just feel desperately sorry for them both. And i feel hopeless but we can't save them all. I shall cry when or if they go though.
I am so glad i've left that yard
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Box_Of_Frogs

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That's so sad Mosh but at least the guy is trying to do right by them rather than sending them off to the local meat market to end up as yet more horror stories on the 6 o'clock news. Not my place to speak for these 2 neds but thankyou Mosh for caring about them xxx
 

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I know what you mean. I took over the care of a very elderly pony (43) which the owner thought could manage on fresh air in the winter, ie. no feed, no hay cos she can't eat it due to having no teeth, and an old rag for a rug. Another of the liveries persuaded him to buy her a decent rug and I soaked hi-fibre nuts and sugar beet twice a day which took her up from 550lbs to 675lb (winter weight). He couldn't even be bothered to spray her against the flies and said that her leathery scarred skin was used to being bitten. Basically she has been neglected for the last 20 odd years and if she wasn't so tough would have died of starvation and hypothermia years ago. Now she is a happy old girl who loves her routine of food at both ends of the day, knows that she will get attention, has minimal sweetitch, and interestingly, as a result has zoomed up the social ladder with the other neds. My only regret is that a pony in its fourth decade has to live out all year. I know she'd love to winter in at night but there is no way her owner would pay to stable her.
 
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