unbalanced
Well-Known Member
So, my YO has decided to get strict with us and check our passports after hearing that DEFRA showed up at her friend's yard and spent 5 HOURS there checking all the horses' passports against their markings etc. She doesn't keep our passports (in case she loses them or they get stolen and we might need them for a show or something) but she likes to have a list of their numbers.
This has got me a bit worried because although, like a good citizen, I do have a passport for my pony, it's not a very good one. It has her colour wrong (says dark bay - please look at my photo album and tell me what colour you think she is!) and has her freezemark wrong). She got it when she was on loan with one of the generic organisations and it says her breeding is unknown and stuff. I'm a bit worried that if DEFRA were actually to show up like they did to YO's friend I would be, as they say, stuffed. It is legitimately hers, I just think the vet that did it must have signed the paperwork in winter when she had her thick winter woolies on (and possibly in the dark).
I want to change it to a breed society passport and I have had her microchipped. Does anyone know how you get rid of a passport and get a new one with a different organisation? Also, what would happen if someone actually checked her passport and basic things like colour and freezemark were wrong?
This has got me a bit worried because although, like a good citizen, I do have a passport for my pony, it's not a very good one. It has her colour wrong (says dark bay - please look at my photo album and tell me what colour you think she is!) and has her freezemark wrong). She got it when she was on loan with one of the generic organisations and it says her breeding is unknown and stuff. I'm a bit worried that if DEFRA were actually to show up like they did to YO's friend I would be, as they say, stuffed. It is legitimately hers, I just think the vet that did it must have signed the paperwork in winter when she had her thick winter woolies on (and possibly in the dark).
I want to change it to a breed society passport and I have had her microchipped. Does anyone know how you get rid of a passport and get a new one with a different organisation? Also, what would happen if someone actually checked her passport and basic things like colour and freezemark were wrong?