Re: RC: Arab Slaughter Horses

[Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>]

Amen....can't fix the world.

Good Post, Kat...

Regards, Jim

guest@endurance.net wrote:
> 
> 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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