Travellers like these should be shot.

[Moggy in Manolos]

Sadly I live fairly near a massive site, and I see them getting yearlings pulling carts at high speed with the heads yanked high, scaring the life out of them, so in my close proximal experience the ones are I have are idiots! Like this silly moo on the video, that poor horse

 

[potty_4_piebalds]

I don't think it is right to tar all travellers with the same brush. I love traditional cobs and have met some very nice travellers, and some very nice livery yard type people and some awful livery yard types like the equine vet we have on our yard at the moment she has been there about 4/6 weeks i have only seen her youngster with its head collar off once and cant tell you how many times other people have had to give the poor mare water because the vet can't be bothered to turn a tap on!

 

[JadeWisc]

I am not getting into the traveller debate but that boy at the end will wind up in prison if I had to guess. That was the part of the video that upset me the most. If that was my child I would redden his a$$ so fast his head would spin. My kids would not do that though as they are all three huge animal lovers with big hearts. This kid is going to grow up with problems and I bet he has some messed up parents.

The girl at the start is obviously an idiot and I was hoping she would get thrown on the concrete. People want to go on the Parelli thread and call abuse but THIS is what I call true abuse

 

[jodie3]

Did anybody else see the young boy attempt to kick at the ponies face, and then spit at it, a few times :-( sad.

This bit upset me most to be honest, especially as the horse wasn't doing anything at the time and the boy went out of his way to kick it and then went back to spit at it again. Even though there were adults around no-one seemed to even notice.

It looked a sweet little horse too.

 

[perfect11s]

The truth is there is good and bad in all parts of our human world. genuine gypsys are fine very sound law abiding people however I would love to know how many of the traveling comunity, so called... are genuine and can trace there roots back to nomadic people and how many of them or there recent forbears have chosen a selfish anti social way of life that just takes and gives nothing in return... in order that they can do just as they likey!!!!????

 

[Horsey_dreams]

I think theres a difference between proper gypsies and travellers. Travellers have no respect for anyone- camp where they like, kids running wild, stealing, dumping rubbish, intimidating local businesses (restaurant i worked at was forced to stay open and cook them a meal past kitchen closure time as the night before when we refused they vandalised the garden) when they leave their camp site they leave all their rubbish behind, including human excrement. My mum has been threatened over the phone by them when she tried to intervene in cruelty to their dogs. Remember Tony Martin? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/717511.stm

 

[Dolcé]

My OH lives in bradford, and there's always loads of people running around bareback on very young ponies, trotting them up main roads and tethering them next to busy dual carriage ways. I hate seeing them tethered on every available piece of grass. Especially the mare and foal nearby to my OH's house. They never get to go for a run or play with other horses

But i suppose as long as they are given water regularly they all look quite well weight wise. Just hate to think of them all without shelter in this horrible weather. I think if you don't have anywhere to keep them (other than a dodgy council estate playing field) then they shouldn't be allowed them. And they should be stopped from breeding them. Similar sorts who keep their ponies nearby to our yard tethered one on some scrub land with no shelter, and it was found strangled to death by a walker. I don't turn out in a headcollar, so it would be pretty damned hard for that to happen normally.

Oh, and saw a miserable skinny looking horse in a rickety old cart loaded with junk tied to a lamp post on a main road outside a shop at weekend. You wouldn't even tie a dog there for fear of it getting loose. Stupid people.

That would be Tyersal then I suppose!! One of my colleagues was working there a few months ago and was amazed to see a horse being led out of the house he was going to, it lived there!!! I live a few miles away and regularly see them driving the poor babies, still with foal tails, at breakneck speeds!

 

[Tinseltoes]

Im just wondering who here would happily sell or rehome a dog or horse of theirs to someone from the travelling community?

Now chance,when hell freezes over!

 

[zoeshiloh]

Originally Posted by narkymare
Im just wondering who here would happily sell or rehome a dog or horse of theirs to someone from the travelling community?

Yes, I have done. Not all travellers are the same. I know the mares I sold to a traveller are better looked after than they probably would have been by 'normal' folk. I still see them at least once, normally twice a week, and they are a picture of health.

You cannot generalise like the above statement does - there are plenty of 'normal' people I would not sell a horse to! Some of the idiots I have entertained when selling a horse!