Sussex horse watch meeting info

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Hi guys,
Just got back from a Sussex horse watch meeting and thought I would give you all an update on what went on, and hopefully others who went can add aditional information.

Please please contact your local police station and ask for your details to be added to your local horse watch scheme.

Sussex horsewatch have a new website, which is impossible to find on google, if I could remember the address it would be more helpful but hopefully someone else can!!!

Please please report ANYTHING you know about local horse theft/tack theft issues etc no matter how small. And keep your reference number (which is a number and a date eg 236 15/12/09) and keep for future reference, and please quote EVERY time you call, otherwise they will not link them together.

New tags have been identified as marks on trees, plastic bags in trees, carrots/bread/feed in fields, and now road markings (they do an arrow with a box with lines in, each line represents 100 yards, and outside field/entrance they do an arrow with a triangle to indicate). A man in an oragne tabard has been seen spraying the roads with these symbols. Any other suspicious tags or odd markings on trees etc please please report!!

Please contact your local police and ask to be signed up to Sussex Horse watch and Farm watch, and please report everything you can.

Hopefully others who went tonight will be able to add a little mroe information and the new sussex hores watch website, and any phone numbers etc that thet can.
 
http://sussexhorsewatch.webs.com/

This is the link to the new website.

I'm afraid I am very cynical about all these reports from the strange to the downright ludicrous - despite all these apparent signs there doesn't apper to be any actual horses stolen. (Thankfully) Why the hell would you spray markings on the road with a high-viz jacket on if you wanted to steal some horses? It seems much more likely that they were marking the road for future repairs or resurfacing. As to plaits - well I can barely see my horses mane in the winter in poor light never mind wandering around with a torch in the middle of the night trying to see which horse has a minute plait hidden amongst his mane which presumably since the owner has found it has been brushed it out? Yes I think we should be vigilant but I think these reports are just a result of very effective scaremongering.
 
At the meeting today it turned out some peoples horses had been stolen and they had seen the tags a few days before, lots of people did report a lot of strange things eg tags on trees etc, but they did have horses stolen.
So I guess, despite things sounding strange its best to be on guard just incase.
 
Oh really - no horses were mentioned stolen from the Sussex area on the Horsewatch site. On the old web-site the last update was in 2006 and that was not about stolen horses. Have these horse been found? If not where can we look for their descriptions so we can keep a look out?
 
I don't know if they have been found or any descriptions, I'm just reporting what was said in the meeting today. It was held by Sussex Police and had quite a lot of people turn up. I expect the new website will be updated soon, but they did say that if you contact your local police and ask to be signed up to youe local horse watch they will keep you informed via email and txt message.
 
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