Thor.. the emaciated horse from Bissel wood ride

No doubt I'm wrong about this but was there a thread on which the rider was complaining that her horse had been wrongly taken away by RSPCA and was campaigning to get him back. Was that thread anything to do with this horse?
 
That was one up in Scotland doing the ridings, not this horse :).

I do wonder if she was surrounded by people including herself who mistakenly thought that its a TB it is going to look poor in winter, and then that sort of self perpetuated and if everyone is saying it everyone believes it etc and they all then feel ok about it.
In a lot of ways lucky for him he was taken on that fun ride.
 
TP that photo just made me gasp, I am no slim jim but how did she think it was ok to ride a horse in that condition with her so overweight. The horse looks so sweet bless him I hope his new home treats him like a prince.
Note to self stop reading this thread it is just so upsetting.
 
IMO she was too fat to ride that horse even before she starved him almost to death.

I remember all the furore at the time. I'm so pleased the horse is now doing well & in a good home.
I can't describe how I feel about this piece of cr*p woman.
 
This is particularly upsetting because this poor horse has been starved and neglected and still worked, worked by a heavyweight rider and not just a plod round the block - an eight mile fun ride with jumps! Most cases of starvation are horses left abandoned in fields or shut in stables where at least they can rest. I consider fun rides to be fairly hard work for a horse and I wouldn't take any of mine on one unless they were reasonably fit. It's a miracle he got round without collapsing!

This is something you'd expect to see in the third world country where people cannot afford to feed their families let alone their animals, animals which they rely on to make a living. This is the sort of thing you'd expect to see on PFK, not your local fun ride!

And agree, Claracanter, I thought the same about the fly veil (in the middle of winter??), spend money on that and go to the trouble of putting it on but don't bother to feed the horse? Unbelievable.
 
I haven't followed this on fb, but it is a shocking case. However, there are a lot of TBs out there being ridden by people far too heavy. They're bred and designed to carry light weight, fit riders. Even big strong NH horses shouldn't have fifteen stone riders on them.
Good luck to the horse.
 
Marmalade76 - this horse looks worse than some of the neglect cases pfk see!

It may also have been deliberately managed that way to make him rideable. I've seen the results of that on a grade A horse when he arrived at the new (good!) yard.
 
Frumpoon said:
It is more likely that she is not telling the truth, perhaps
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I can only think this. In the screenshot she says he's put on loads of condition - what condition?? What was he like before if he's put on 'loads'?

And he's only missing topline not weight - if this was actually the case then the RSPCA wouldn't have been able to seize him? We all know how difficult it can be to get the RSPCA to do anything in horse welfare cases so it has to be pretty bad for them to seize it.


And - forget about the condition for a minute - who rides a horse twice a week and takes it to a fun ride with a massive saddle sore? She didn't explain that.
 
sky1000 said:
No doubt I'm wrong about this but was there a thread on which the rider was complaining that her horse had been wrongly taken away by RSPCA and was campaigning to get him back. Was that thread anything to do with this horse?
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Ooh Humphrey. I think he came back didn't he?
 
Can anyone tell me why no one noticed that this horse was getting very thin. They can lose weight quickly, but not overnight. Did no one on the yard think to do something, phone WHW for instance?
Or the farrier?
For heaven's sake, someone must have seen him without a rug. Or seen his poor stick neck?
Calls to the RSPCA etc can be made anonymously.
 
I think she may have got the 20% weight rule the wrong way round...

Somewhere there must have been at least one toady, with the 'Aw hun, don't listen to the haters, you look perfect on him and he's in perfect condition. Them haters are just well jealous, cos they don't know nuffink about horses and especially tbs, and your boy is beautiful. xxx.'

I can't get my head around someone either being so arrogant and stupid or arrogant and selfish, or maybe both...
 
This story is so upsetting! The woman (well girl) is clearly delusional!!!! As a tb owner myself and knowing how difficult weight problems can be, i can very proudly say my girl has never been in such a poor state as Thor no matter what the weather is like or her fitness level!!!! The topline quote made me so angry as we all know what TBS and topline can mean but without topline my girl doesn't have bones protruding! Im also a larger ride and wouldn't dream of getting on her (my mum now rides her!) And as said before its always the poor ex racers that end up in such horrible states yet they are always so forgiving and trusting! Its heart breaking! So happy Thor has a second chance with people that know how to care for his needs!! This idiot should never be allowed near a horse again!!!
 
jmd481 said:
This story is so upsetting! The woman (well girl) is clearly delusional!!!! As a tb owner myself and knowing how difficult weight problems can be, i can very proudly say my girl has never been in such a poor state as Thor no matter what the weather is like or her fitness level!!!! The topline quote made me so angry as we all know what TBS and topline can mean but without topline my girl doesn't have bones protruding! Im also a larger ride and wouldn't dream of getting on her (my mum now rides her!) And as said before its always the poor ex racers that end up in such horrible states yet they are always so forgiving and trusting! Its heart breaking! So happy Thor has a second chance with people that know how to care for his needs!! This idiot should never be allowed near a horse again!!!
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A twenty two year old is not a girl I was grown up and out on my own at that age .
 
Im 25 with 3 children and my own home! What i meant is the way she has acted is like the mentality of a child because any sane person would know that Thor wasn't fit to ride!
 
jmd481 said:
Im 25 with 3 children and my own home! What i meant is the way she has acted is like the mentality of a child because any sane person would know that Thor wasn't fit to ride!
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I agree with you. I do wonder if she is a bit 'simple' as they would say in the old days, I'm sure there is a more PC term for it now though. Not that ignorance is any excuse for cruelty ...
 
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