"Urgent rehoming"

Dolcé;10716599 said:
This, far better PTS than giving them away to just anyone!
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Sadly I agree with this. If they are being given away, goodness knows what could happen to them. even with no issues, not everyone can ride a polo pony and one can't be ridden anyway. If the team/owner had any thought for them, they would just have done it quietly and without fuss and not allowed them to be on a site advertised for free.
 
And once again it doesnt look to be the owner advertising but some do gooder, who thinks they are helping the horses!!
 
I'm going to be controversial here and say that not all ponies rehomed for nothing go to bad homes. A friend of mine recently took on an elderly ex polo pony mare and she's now got a light hacking home until she doesn't want to do it anymore and then she'll be allowed to retire with them for the rest of her life.

I appreciate that's not always what happens but sometimes these things can end well and I can understand why someone would want to try.

If I were in the position of knowing, and possibly caring about these mares I'm not so sure I wouldn't try to give them a chance.

Sorry, just my humble opinion.
 
bikerchickone said:
I'm going to be controversial here and say that not all ponies rehomed for nothing go to bad homes. A friend of mine recently took on an elderly ex polo pony mare and she's now got a light hacking home until she doesn't want to do it anymore and then she'll be allowed to retire with them for the rest of her life.

I appreciate that's not always what happens but sometimes these things can end well and I can understand why someone would want to try.

If I were in the position of knowing, and possibly caring about these mares I'm not so sure I wouldn't try to give them a chance.

Sorry, just my humble opinion.
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there is nothing wrong in giving an old horse a home for life nothing at all, the argument here (again) is that someone is prepared to get rid of their old horses that have served them well for years, they are due a good retirement, or the very least the owner should man up and do whats right by them!!!
 
From the add it's clear the owner has decided to put these ponies to sleep.
It is some good doer trying to find homes.

It's sad when they've earn't a retirement and yet no one is interested, sad but reality. The owner should just PTS and be done with it, ponies wont know or care :(
 
Yes it does say in ad the owner wants to pts so the owner is being responable, it is a good doer that's ad them from what I can tell.
If they were mine if I couldn't offer a retirment home I would pts but YES there are good homes out there and iv got 2 which if the ad was placed on here PTS would off been all that would off been said, but both are so happy , healthy now and won't leave mine. Iv given 2 horses away as well and keep in touch with both owners with regular pictures and updates so personally they may get a good home but it should be the owners choice not a good doer. If he pts that's his choice. I won't even sell horses now as although both iv given away have fab homes iv sold 1 who went to the most awful home and is now in a rescue center. Home sounded fab and lovely people etc who paid £2800 just to abuse him. It was the rescue center who rung me as when I sell I always write my tel number in the front page with a little note saying " old owner any info needed on this horse please feel free to ring" the rescue center done just that.
So free or sold nobody can say anything will get a good home.
 
i have an ex event mare we.ve owned for 11 yrs and has been retired for 4 yrs , shes currently nannying my yard owners youngstock , she will go nowhere , when her time comes we,ll be with her as she is pts
 
I sadly think its best that they are PTS, there are a few amazing homes for older horses (my friend always takes on older horses for quiet hacking) but these are few and far between.

It is sad that people wont allow horses a retirement but passing them on could be a fate far worse than death.
 
If I was the owner I'd be furious that some interfering do-gooder decided to advertise my horses as free to god knows where when I'd made the decision to pts.

Unless the owner genuinely doesn't care and will pass them on without a second thought anyway.

Far better to pts if retirement isn't an option, considering the way things are for unwanted horses at the moment. At least you can guarantee your horses won't suffer or be abused, especially for oldies. :(
 
I would have one of those ponies in a shot if I was looking for a companion for my horse. I rehomed an exracer many years ago that could not be ridden due to having both front tendons blown. But he was completely sound in the field. Sadly he broke a hind leg hooning about a few years later. So there ARE good home out there. I wish people would not slate those trying to find them. Yes, we all know what can befall horses that fall into the wrong hands, but every time we sell a horse, we are letting go of its fate. We don't know that the next owner will not starve it or beat it or otherwise mistreat it. That is why I never sell my horses. But those that do can hardly slate others for trying to find good homes for horses that otherwise face certain death.
 
I hope the owner stands firm and insists these ponies are pts. Yes of course there are good homes out there, but there are also plenty of bad homes. I imagine those ponies have had a hard working life and their owner owes it to them to be sure of their end. Our 24 year old is full of life but if for any reason we couldn't keep her she would be pts.
And Wagtail, I can slate others because none of ours have been sold, we have an 11.2 and a 13 hh here living out their days, plus a donkey who has been here since the year dog.
 
Wagtail said:
I would have one of those ponies in a shot if I was looking for a companion for my horse. I rehomed an exracer many years ago that could not be ridden due to having both front tendons blown. But he was completely sound in the field. Sadly he broke a hind leg hooning about a few years later. So there ARE good home out there. I wish people would not slate those trying to find them. Yes, we all know what can befall horses that fall into the wrong hands, but every time we sell a horse, we are letting go of its fate. We don't know that the next owner will not starve it or beat it or otherwise mistreat it. That is why I never sell my horses. But those that do can hardly slate others for trying to find good homes for horses that otherwise face certain death.
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I don't sell mine either Wagtail, sadly there are already hundreds of horses looking for companion homes, many of them are young and healthy as opposed to elderly and unrideable, which reduces these horses chances dramatically.

There are always people who say that they would give it a home 'if', but many of us are already full to capacity and those good homes are like hens teeth with many more horses than there are homes. Most of us have 'If's' stopping us.

By offering free to a good home then there is nothing to stop a potential seemingly wonderful new owner shipping it off to the next sale ring or selling privately, and after visiting many sale rings with these pitiful cast offs stood miserably in pens, it is something I would never allow for mine. Better to go with dignity in a home they know and love than take the risk of ending up like that. Of course they 'might' be lucky and end up loved and cared for, but realisitically it is far more likely to go the other way.
 
only 1 horse belongs to the 'owner' the other 2 belong to the team, i wonder if either party is aware their horses are being advertised by a 3rd party!! if they were aware and had agreed to it you would think there would be rather more info !
 
MurphysMinder said:
I hope the owner stands firm and insists these ponies are pts. Yes of course there are good homes out there, but there are also plenty of bad homes. I imagine those ponies have had a hard working life and their owner owes it to them to be sure of their end. Our 24 year old is full of life but if for any reason we couldn't keep her she would be pts.
And Wagtail, I can slate others because none of ours have been sold, we have an 11.2 and a 13 hh here living out their days, plus a donkey who has been here since the year dog.
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BoolavogueDC said:
I think I'd rather my horses faced certain death than an uncertain future. In today's climate.
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touchstone said:
I don't sell mine either Wagtail, sadly there are already hundreds of horses looking for companion homes, many of them are young and healthy as opposed to elderly and unrideable, which reduces these horses chances dramatically.

There are always people who say that they would give it a home 'if', but many of us are already full to capacity and those good homes are like hens teeth with many more horses than there are homes. Most of us have 'If's' stopping us.

By offering free to a good home then there is nothing to stop a potential seemingly wonderful new owner shipping it off to the next sale ring or selling privately, and after visiting many sale rings with these pitiful cast offs stood miserably in pens, it is something I would never allow for mine. Better to go with dignity in a home they know and love than take the risk of ending up like that. Of course they 'might' be lucky and end up loved and cared for, but realisitically it is far more likely to go the other way.
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Of course the right thing to do would be to retire these ponies. Why is no one slating the owners? They use these ponies until they are too old and slow and then just cast them aside. They are not cars! Of course, I would never just give my horses away on the open market if I could no longer care for them, but I think I WOULD try to find them a home before outting to sleep. But I would have to be 100% certain of their future, and so it would likely be my sister or a friend that I rehomed them with. If I was unable to do this, then I would PTS. But I cannot blame a third party trying to find a home for these ponies. Good homes may be like hen's teeth but they do exist.
 
The people who have said they have given horses away free, can i ask, was it a word of mouth thing or an ad like this one? I think the point is, unless you personally know the people, you can't know that they are all that they seem. Bin end and unscrupulous dealers don't go in and tell the truth, they are very plausible when they offer what sounds like a wonderful home. I bought my wee minty from a dealer who later admitted to me that she had seen his ad in the paper and actually bragged that it said 'no dealers' and she went in and sweet talked with the story that she was a private buyer and she was buying for her little girl. Load of rubbish, she knew she could sell him for way more than they were asking, they just wanted a good home for him. he was in a bit of a mess when i got him after him being sold to idiots then being returned. He was with us til the day he died. Of course there are good people out there but as someone said, there are also the bad. I am a bit of a fluffy but if anything happens to me instructions are that my mare is pts as she is in her 20's and i wouldn't risk an uncertain future for her.
 
Wagtail said:
Of course the right thing to do would be to retire these ponies. Why is no one slating the owners? They use these ponies until they are too old and slow and then just cast them aside. They are not cars! Of course, I would never just give my horses away on the open market if I could no longer care for them, but I think I WOULD try to find them a home before outting to sleep. But I would have to be 100% certain of their future, and so it would likely be my sister or a friend that I rehomed them with. If I was unable to do this, then I would PTS. But I cannot blame a third party trying to find a home for these ponies. Good homes may be like hen's teeth but they do exist.
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While I personally couldn't not keep a retired horse, there are plenty of folk who can't keep a horse into retirement, whether due to finances, space, time or the owners health/age.

I used to teach at a riding school which had to be run as a business, if the horses became lame they were given treatment and rest for a certain period of time and after that if still not right they were pts.

A mare used as a broodmare and the owners old pony were the only ones to be kept into retirement. The simply fact was that they couldn't keep them as space was at a premium and finances dictated that the horses had to earn their keep. Older ones were used as lead rein ponies if suitable, but everything had a job and when the point came that they weren't capable they were euthanised.

They were all well looked after and had good productive lives, but it was a given that nothing left the yard to be 'rehomed' or sold when its working days were up; far too many horses and novice owners wanting to take them than would be good for the horses.

It was always a sad day when they went, but we knew that they had had a good life and saved the possibility of being trapped in a living hell.
 
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