mollymurphy
Well-Known Member
RE: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2461303/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1
Well the ILPH came out yesterday. I wasnt there, but he called me afterwards. This is what was said:
1) She's "not skinny enough" to do much about. How skinny do they need to be?? She's almost deffinately in foal and is going into winter looking like death!!
2) The owner is in Scotland, so someone else is seeing to her. I knew that, but didnt know who. Now i know it's another gypsy, but he's really lovely. Has one horse of his own who he absolutley adores. Calls her his "pride and joy". His horse wants for nothing, so i know he'll be trying with this filly, but what happens when the owner returns???
3) The owners' brother told the inspector "that horse is a rescue. She came over from Ireland a few weeks ago - she was really skinny, but she's getting better."
B****ks! They've had her for ages! And she's got WORSE, not better. I explained this to the inspector, but he didnt seem too bothered. I've seen her countless times being raced down the duel carriageway in a trap. She's still got harness rubs now.
So anyway, the inspector has asked ME to go every day and keep an eye on her and check the feed in the feed bin outside her field is going down. Am i right in thinking that this shouldnt be my responsibility? And that he's putting me in danger by asking me to go to a horse that is owned by a not-very-nice person?!
He said he'll come out again "in a week or two". He didnt even ask that a vet come out to see her. The 'vomiting' didnt get a mention and the rainscald will apparently "sort itself out"!
When my friends' horse was reported a few weeks ago, this same inspector was incredibly horrible to her and DEMANDED she got a vet out the next day. He also threatened to seize her horse if she didnt comply. The horse in question was a colt she'd rescued from the gypsies. It had collapsed on the yard a couple of months earlier and they wouldnt help him, so my friend bought him there and then. He was a state, and she's done really well with him. He's still underweight, but nowhere near what this little filly is. It seems that just because the owner is a gypsy, they can do what they want.
I dont know why I bother.
Gonna go and write a letter of complaint now i think. Or am i over-reacting??
Lou. x
Well the ILPH came out yesterday. I wasnt there, but he called me afterwards. This is what was said:
1) She's "not skinny enough" to do much about. How skinny do they need to be?? She's almost deffinately in foal and is going into winter looking like death!!
2) The owner is in Scotland, so someone else is seeing to her. I knew that, but didnt know who. Now i know it's another gypsy, but he's really lovely. Has one horse of his own who he absolutley adores. Calls her his "pride and joy". His horse wants for nothing, so i know he'll be trying with this filly, but what happens when the owner returns???
3) The owners' brother told the inspector "that horse is a rescue. She came over from Ireland a few weeks ago - she was really skinny, but she's getting better."
B****ks! They've had her for ages! And she's got WORSE, not better. I explained this to the inspector, but he didnt seem too bothered. I've seen her countless times being raced down the duel carriageway in a trap. She's still got harness rubs now.
So anyway, the inspector has asked ME to go every day and keep an eye on her and check the feed in the feed bin outside her field is going down. Am i right in thinking that this shouldnt be my responsibility? And that he's putting me in danger by asking me to go to a horse that is owned by a not-very-nice person?!
He said he'll come out again "in a week or two". He didnt even ask that a vet come out to see her. The 'vomiting' didnt get a mention and the rainscald will apparently "sort itself out"!
When my friends' horse was reported a few weeks ago, this same inspector was incredibly horrible to her and DEMANDED she got a vet out the next day. He also threatened to seize her horse if she didnt comply. The horse in question was a colt she'd rescued from the gypsies. It had collapsed on the yard a couple of months earlier and they wouldnt help him, so my friend bought him there and then. He was a state, and she's done really well with him. He's still underweight, but nowhere near what this little filly is. It seems that just because the owner is a gypsy, they can do what they want.
I dont know why I bother.
Gonna go and write a letter of complaint now i think. Or am i over-reacting??
Lou. x
