*hic*
village idiot :D
Got a desperate phone call from a friend this morning, she'd been told about a couple of ponies and asked by the Common caretaker if she would remove them from the common land where they had been dumped last week. Common due to be cleared and these ponies were scheduled to be shot on Wednesday if no-one would take them. Someone just turned up with a lorry at the end of last week, ran the ponies round on long ropes with the traveller ponies who have been out there and then abandoned them.
So we turned out with trailer, hurdles, ropes, buckets of feed, carrots and anything else we could think of that might be useful. The two ponies are now safely at mine and the vet has been out to check them over. One is approximately four months old, a pretty Welsh looking filly foal with a terrible snotty nose and a bit of a wry nose, still with the remains of a sales sticker on her, the other is a handsome and well put together but aged Shetland stallion currently displaying colicky symptoms. Filly has been checked and we will keep an eye on her nose and check for temperature/breathing problems etc. Stallion, who is obviously very well handled, has had a shot of Buscopan and we're watching him to make sure he's feeling better, not worse. Both are interested in feed, both have had a lie down in their ample paper bed. They are still in together as the filly is rather nervous and they seem to like the company.
These two have landed on their feet, it's lucky that I have the space to isolate them, my friend will take excellent care of them and they will want for nothing but whoever owned them and whoever dumped them needs a bloody good talking to about their responsibilities.
It was NOT travellers who dumped them, the travellers whose ponies are already out there were less than pleased to have a snotty foal and a stallion dumped out with their mares.
So we turned out with trailer, hurdles, ropes, buckets of feed, carrots and anything else we could think of that might be useful. The two ponies are now safely at mine and the vet has been out to check them over. One is approximately four months old, a pretty Welsh looking filly foal with a terrible snotty nose and a bit of a wry nose, still with the remains of a sales sticker on her, the other is a handsome and well put together but aged Shetland stallion currently displaying colicky symptoms. Filly has been checked and we will keep an eye on her nose and check for temperature/breathing problems etc. Stallion, who is obviously very well handled, has had a shot of Buscopan and we're watching him to make sure he's feeling better, not worse. Both are interested in feed, both have had a lie down in their ample paper bed. They are still in together as the filly is rather nervous and they seem to like the company.
These two have landed on their feet, it's lucky that I have the space to isolate them, my friend will take excellent care of them and they will want for nothing but whoever owned them and whoever dumped them needs a bloody good talking to about their responsibilities.
It was NOT travellers who dumped them, the travellers whose ponies are already out there were less than pleased to have a snotty foal and a stallion dumped out with their mares.
