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Arab Slaughter Horses



K S SWIGART   katswig@earthlink.net

Lisa P. said:

> I am hoping someday to have enough acres, and money to do
> rescue work.

Just a note of caution.  It takes more than acres and money to
properly "rescue" a horse.  It takes time and attention. Although
with acres you need less time and with money you can hire some
of the needed attention, I know plenty of horses that would be
better off being "rescued" from their rich, landed owners who
have more horses than their time and attention allows for.

There is an extreme shortage of competent people to provide
adequate care for all the horses that there are. Rescuing a
horse by placing it in the hands of somebody who either does
not have the expertise or does not have the time to properly
care for it, is not what I consider to be doing the horse a
favor.

I would rather such horses went straight to the slaughter house
with a short trip to euthanasia than for them to languish in
the fields of the well-meaning but incapable (and even the most
competent of horsemen only has so much time to spend on each
horse and can quickly be overwhelmed by the amount of time that
his horses are requiring).

I make no comment as to the expertise or abilities of Lisa P.
but merely comment that it would be well for any well-meaning
"rescuers" to be aware that rescuing a horse so that it wouldn't
be better off dead takes much more than just land and money.

It requires time and expertise that cannot always be bought.  The
fact is, there are more horses out there than there are competent
people to properly take care of them.  If _I_ had access to vast
financial resources, the way that I would put them to use in
rescuing horses would be to buy the ones that nobody else wants
and have them humanely put down...and if I could put the carcass
to good use after it is dead, I think I probably would.

In many ways, I think I have just described a slaughter buyer.

Although one of the ways I would expend those resources would be
in providing a more humane way of transporting them TO their
final rest.

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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