----- We will not diminish the need for these
low end auctions until we each personally take responsibility for our horses
till death do us part. The rose colored glasses need to come off-reality
isn't pretty, but it's there.
I don't intend to be arguing---it
appears the auctions you have been to are different from those I have
attended.
Sure, there are a few horses who are in bad
condition at the one I attend---but MOST of the horses are good horses and
this is just a marketing medium. Of the 200-plus people who
attend--only *1* is a killer buyer. I've gone a number of times,
and watched, and the majority of horses go to local people. I have
also seen a "guy from the East" who comes to buy horses for the eastern riding
stables as the horses are cheaper here (Texas) than there, according to
him. He buys "color" and pays a good price. Arabians
are not popular here in "QH Country" and the killers don't want them, either,
so an Arabian brought to the auction will be pretty cheap. It's not
just a "throw-away" place HERE---you CAN find a good horse, and you CAN sell a
horse without thinking it will end up at the killers.
And--what to
you mean "till death do us part"? If I buy a horse I am
honor-bound to keep that horse FOREVER even if it was a poor
"marriage"?? Or if I sell it I am supposed to follow up on it
forever? I have a herd of 20---I am supposed to keep ALL 20
FOREVER? I am supposed to give up breeding because I am not
supposed to sell anything I raise?? I wanted to raise
endurance horses--guess I shouldn't do that??? Surely I have
misunderstood you??
Claudia