very skinny pony

I know of the owner but dont know her personally. This pony is supposed to be on full livery!!
I(ts not my yard I just walk my dogs past sometimes .
 
omg that's disgusting that someone could let a horse get like that:mad::(
god job there are people like you to recognise it needs help :(
hope the whw get back to you soon as i dont think he/she will last much longer :(
 
Things like this make me so angry! The pony doesnt look that old to me either.

I wish I could win the lottery and buy a big field for all of the neglected ponies out there! I have family who would find this type of condition acceptable! It is so wrong and undeserved!

I called the RSPCA out once to a horse being kept in a shed in someones back garden. It was never turned out and from what I could gather, never mucked out because I never saw any muck being disposed of. There were no windows either. The RSPCA called me back and told me that there WAS a horse in the shed but it looked in good condition so as far as they were concerned "case closed" A small glimmer of hope for that poor pony and that inspector took it away in an instant!

I hope the WHW come back to you soon.

A big pat on the back for not just walking past.
 
Just been in the phone to whw , they looked at the pics and are getting an officer out . It saddens me that on a livery yars nobody has done anything about it.
 
could be ancient....which I suspect and how can you fatten up a laminitic pony?? Not excusing it as it looks terrible and even if there is good reason I think I would be putting a rug on it out of embarassment personally, but wonder if its ancient and lost condition and they cannot fatten up due to lammy....there is a lot of it about just now with grass coming through.

Dont think its a youngster to be honest.....we had ancient girl who was never as poor as this but did look rather coatrack...however, had we overfed her, we would have killed her with kindness...

The very fact it is on livery yard, leads me to suspect there is good reason (abliet not pleasant to look at) that pony appears like this....cannot imagine other liveries would turn a blind eye - BUT WHO KNOWS THESE DAYS!!!
 
have you asked to see if this pony has any underlining problems ie any illnesses ie grass sickness etc to how this pony has got into this state, it just baffles me how a livery yard can except this kind of behaviour .
i sure wouldnt
 
charliefox said:
Just been in the phone to whw , they looked at the pics and are getting an officer out . It saddens me that on a livery yars nobody has done anything about it.
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Poor pony. From what I understand (not much lol) the yard owner is liable for its current state as well as the owner. I can't access photobucket from work but can well imagine what the poor thing looks at. The RSPCA can't do a great deal, I ended up buying Toby because technically he had food and water in his field so was being cared for well that is the way the RSPCA would see it, the fact that he was 15.3 TB that weighed about 390kg or less didn't matter. I can't call them all that much though they have certain laws etc to abide by so it isn't entirely their fault, our justice system is just rubbish and animal welfare sadly isn't at the top of everyone's agenda.

Let us know what happens :-)
 
somethingorother said:
I wonder if it has cushings, it's coat looks very hairy and a bit of a mess. Let us know what WHW say, i hope she has a happy ending.
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That was my immediate thought - an oldie with cushings.
Another thought is, as you only walk your dogs past, OP, I assume you don't know the people or the horse's background? Wouldn't it be a good idea to ask them about it first?
 
I have asked around about this pony and it is at least 30. It is not a lammie case just not adequatly cared for. It had no rug no stable and no hay all winter. It gets a bucket of feed in the field, 2 new horses in the field get hay in 2 piles but this poor girl doesnt get any. She was just watching the other 2 eat . A friend who was a livery there a year or so ago said that she was poor and prob not wormed properly and teeth def not done. She is also lame and her urine is the colour of coffee. Its a real crappy yard with baler twine for fencing in places .I also no the yard owner and she is as batty as they come, an elderly eccentric. Its not cushings the coat is matted and scraggy not curly with bald patches more like rain scald.
 
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well in that case , you have every right to report , and im very shocked the livery hasnt done anything about it !!!!
 
chestercharlie said:
could be ancient....which I suspect and how can you fatten up a laminitic pony??
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Actually you can keep an ancient laminitic in good condition, as I have done in the past. You choose high calorie but low starch/low sugar feeds (such as unmolassed beet) and ensure that the horse or pony has a laminitic safe hay replacer, because often the weight loss is down to poor teeth. My old laminitic used to have great big tubs of Happy Hoof instead of hay.

I don't know what the story is with the horse in the photo but hopefully the WHW can ensure it gets the care it needs.
 
Young or old it needs help
Hope WHW can sort/find a solution

TBH this has been a very hard winter--I expect to see quite a lot of ponies/horses which have been out 24/7 unrugged and without adequate shelter to look like that

That in no way excuses it-they need a constant supply of hay as heat from digesting that keeps them warm

I am looking after a 12hh who really does not like stables, she is 20yo and well covered but even she was shivering after the cold rain and wind this week--shut her in till she dried then away again

Let us know how things go please

Just read your post--coffee coloured urine can indicate atypical myopathy--blood test needed asap
 
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charliefox said:
I have asked around about this pony and it is at least 30. It is not a lammie case just not adequatly cared for. It had no rug no stable and no hay all winter. It gets a bucket of feed in the field, 2 new horses in the field get hay in 2 piles but this poor girl doesnt get any. She was just watching the other 2 eat . A friend who was a livery there a year or so ago said that she was poor and prob not wormed properly and teeth def not done. She is also lame and her urine is the colour of coffee. Its a real crappy yard with baler twine for fencing in places .I also no the yard owner and she is as batty as they come, an elderly eccentric. Its not cushings the coat is matted and scraggy not curly with bald patches more like rain scald.
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I was just about to say that something looks wrong with its wee. It does look like my neighbours pony did when it had cushings. Just a LOT thinner
 
martlin said:
That was my immediate thought - an oldie with cushings.
Another thought is, as you only walk your dogs past, OP, I assume you don't know the people or the horse's background? Wouldn't it be a good idea to ask them about it first?
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I'm sure alot of use wouldn't be brave enough to March into a yard and ask them why one of their horses looks emaciated! It is MUCH safer to report it the way that Charliefox has done.

Fingers crossed for the poor pony, she really does not look to be in a good state.
 
I was concerned last year about a very thin pony I came across whilst out hacking. The WHW did go out and see it and talk to the owner. The pony was 42 years old. The WHW where satisfied that it was being looked after correctly - just really showing it's age.

It looked very like the one in your photos actually.
 
keeley said:
I'm sure alot of use wouldn't be brave enough to March into a yard and ask them why one of their horses looks emaciated! It is MUCH safer to report it the way that Charliefox has done.

Fingers crossed for the poor pony, she really does not look to be in a good state.
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I didn't have in mind MARCHING in and asking why the horse is emaciated... There are more subtle ways of doing things than that, and seems like the OP has found one of them anyway...
 
as charlie fox will know i was a livery at that yard last year with my horse, they say she is 42 (that i cant prove but i know she has been there 21 yrs and was about 20 when she turned up) the old lady is bit bats, and sadly relys on whoever is in the ponys field to help look after her which is not there job i know but well like me they feel sorry for her so they do, CH is right she never got hay i used to give her mine as she shared the field with my boy who loved her to bits the fencing isnt good but while i was was there i put my own inner fence up which protected both of them, this pony was only rugged in winter from oct to march because she rubbs like mad and has wrecked loads of rugs, but no excuse i know, she suffered from lice every year but was treated once when i was there because i did it, i also wormed her while i was there (like i said the yard owner did nothing unless someone offered) her feet werent done as often as should be but were done once that i saw, she got 2 large feeds a day but they were too big and she really needed them in to 4 small meals as i explained to owner but never happened,i made the owner buy her a lightwieght rainrug for those warm rainy days and i used to put it on but she was quite ferrell and it took me ages to get her to let me put a headcollar on let alone a rug but i did, the field isnt the best and she lives out all year because a stable fell on her when she was in her 20's in the 87 storm and since then she hates being stabled now all this info i got from owner who probably sees the pony few times a yr but regardless of all this i havent been at the yard since august last yr and before i left i know the vet came and did blood tests to find out why she wasnt putting wieght on but nothing showed apart from a little iron deficiency so they put her on an iron supp, she does look awfull and i can back charlie fox up in saying that when we had the snow blizzard she had no rug on, why i just dont know but i did see it on her for a very short time only last winter. Now in this case there has been the odd person approach the yard about the state of this pony over time but nothing came of it so hopefully as CH says and shows in her photos, this pony doesnt look any better than last yr but worse of it doesnt look like any one is helping like i did which i can say means not a lot is done for her, good luck CH lets hope something happens this time.
 
It's good you tired to do something but if I were you I would also have reported it anonymously to WHW myself.
 
QR - not read the whole post but it looks like it is ancient, has cushings, and is preparing itself for the long canter up to the stable in the sky to me!
 
there wasnt much to report that would have looked like desperation that was the problem people had tried before and to no avail the problem is she has looked skinny for ages but giving her too bigger feeds wasnt helping thats when i got the owner more involved and thats when things started to be sorted out, she was being fed, and had water etc etc but what she needed was a better yard where she was cared for a bit better i mean she was getting sugar beet, build up mix, molichaff and barley rings and vet took bloods and just said its her age, its not the best place for her but sadly i feel it convenient for the owner i dont know what livery she is on as owner supplys everything but yard owner feeds etc (well supposed too) when i left the owner of pony was going to start buying hay for pony too have as i had said that i was leaving and she needed hay but then new liveries turned up and as CH has says the pony doesnt get any so i dont know what has happened there.
 
well what ever way this pony needs sorting and im very much if the whw dont do anything ,im willing to take this horse on if nothing comes about it with the rescue ,but not going to pay so owner would need to allow her to go free to good home as im not paying for her to get another please let me know of outcome
 
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