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Just read this on the news page here....I'm just praying it wasn't the "system" that meant it took 3 days from the horse first being seen/assessed in this horrific condition by vet/welfare charity to him being finally put down. Wasn't it obvious on day one that that had to happen to ease this awful suffering?!

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/312091.html

Not sure what the whole story is...
 
Horrific! 3 days does seem a long time to decide to pts considering the horses condition. Hate seeing this sort of thing happening, we all know horses will lose weight (esp in winter if you have a poor doer) and some put themselves through so much stress trying to find the correct balance of feed ect. Its sickning that someone could keep a horse in this condition. This is just pure neglect! :( Surley it would be better to sell than keep something you clearly couldnt giv a ** about? Ill never understand these people. Idiots. RIP Poor horse.
 
Ignorance can never be an excuse ... as in he was offered food and water but couldn't eat it because of his poor dental condition .... i hope they jail this idiot ... oh and forget to feed him whilst he's in there..
 
MochaDun said:
Just read this on the news page here....I'm just praying it wasn't the "system" that meant it took 3 days from the horse first being seen/assessed in this horrific condition by vet/welfare charity to him being finally put down. Wasn't it obvious on day one that that had to happen to ease this awful suffering?!

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/312091.html

Not sure what the whole story is...
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There would never be an incident where the 'system' would prevent a suffering animal from being pts immediately if that's what the vet felt needed to happen. The Animal Welfare Act affords powers to police officers to arrange for the destruction of any domesticated animal on a vet's advice - and sometimes even without vet advice if it isn't practicable to await vet attention (ie a cat run over by a train, chopped in half and still alive).

Hope that puts your mind at rest! :)
 
Is there more to this though? Why could they not treat the horse? What were the dental issues? Was it an old horse? I don't like to judge, the owner was 72. Ok, so this may not be old as such these days for people but maybe he just didn't know or think about what he could do - they said he was providing food and water so he wasn't intentionally starving the horse as such and of course he should have called a vet in but, without knowing the full details it's hard to judge. Ultimately though, again, the horse is the one that's suffered :(
 
I find it horrifying that he got to that state looking at food that he couldn't eat because of his teeth. That's the worst kind of torture I can imagine.
I hope they leave the guys food outside his cell so he can see it but not eat it.
 
Moomin1 said:
There would never be an incident where the 'system' would prevent a suffering animal from being pts immediately if that's what the vet felt needed to happen. The Animal Welfare Act affords powers to police officers to arrange for the destruction of any domesticated animal on a vet's advice - and sometimes even without vet advice if it isn't practicable to await vet attention (ie a cat run over by a train, chopped in half and still alive).

Hope that puts your mind at rest! :)
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This ^ I think they will have thought long and hard about what was/was not possible and may have needed the results of some tests. Depending on the horse and circumstances they can come back to health from this sort of condition, but there are a lot of variables.
 
If you scroll down and read the comments you will find that this poor horse was reported two YEARS ago and the RSPCA were supposed to be monitoring the situation.

They never fail to disgust me with their lack of action.
 
Poor horse - how can anyone do that to any animal. Makes me upset for the poor animals and angry with the people responsible.

Sickening :(

RIP
 
Ladyinred said:
If you scroll down and read the comments you will find that this poor horse was reported two YEARS ago and the RSPCA were supposed to be monitoring the situation.

They never fail to disgust me with their lack of action.
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This seems to be becoming far too common nowadays :(
 
The sad thing is welfare officers in all animal charities have too much work at the moment. If you are one person with hundreds of animals on the books, then it is hard to keep up with them all. If the poor horse was in this exact condition 2 years ago surely it would have died long before now? So probably at the time it was bad but not prosecutable, and there were worse animals being reported so this case went to the bottom of the list/was closed. Or one person could have left and the horse slipped through the cracks. Or someone went off sick and there was no replacement.

Whatever happened I am glad the poor horse is no longer suffering.
 
The people caring for him must have thought they had a hope of getting Him to eat and drink on his own and given him enough time to settle after the stress of being moved before deciding as a former welfare officers i can assure everyone that if the vet on the day wanted to PTS it would have been done at once the ' system' would not cause delay .
 
ladyt25 said:
Is there more to this though? Why could they not treat the horse? What were the dental issues? Was it an old horse? I don't like to judge, the owner was 72. Ok, so this may not be old as such these days for people but maybe he just didn't know or think about what he could do - they said he was providing food and water so he wasn't intentionally starving the horse as such and of course he should have called a vet in but, without knowing the full details it's hard to judge. Ultimately though, again, the horse is the one that's suffered :(
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I must agree with this, the horse was 30years old and the man had had him from a yearling. I don't think it was necessarily a case of ignorance, but a case of couldn't cope. 16 weeks imprisonments seems a lot if you ask me :( (Note, I'm not advocating horse neglect of any kind, however I think more info on the circumstances is needed before judging....)
 
ladyt25 said:
Is there more to this though? Why could they not treat the horse? What were the dental issues? Was it an old horse? I don't like to judge, the owner was 72. Ok, so this may not be old as such these days for people but maybe he just didn't know or think about what he could do - they said he was providing food and water so he wasn't intentionally starving the horse as such and of course he should have called a vet in but, without knowing the full details it's hard to judge. Ultimately though, again, the horse is the one that's suffered :(
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I kind of agree with this. For someone to say a horse was unable to eat because of 'dental neglect' when the horse in question is 30 sounds like rubbish I'm afraid. There are very few 30 year old horses who are able to eat hay even if they've had the best dental treatment in the world. I have known plenty of horses/ponies who begin to struggle eating hay once they are in their mid-twenties.

I'm not for one minute condoning the state this poor horse was in but to say “The horse, despite having access to food and water, had severe dental neglect and wasn’t able to cope with what he was being offered [to eat]." just makes me wonder if this person has any idea what the mouth of an average thirty year old equine is like!!
 
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