Fw: Arab Slaughter Horses etc...!

["Beth Gunn" <happyhoofprints@hotmail.com>]

Have really good friend here in Moncks Corner SC who does close to this.
For her job/career she goes out, finds neglected and unwanted horses,
registered and not, brings them to her barn and re-habs them.  It is a long
process, at Least several months.  Usually 6 months to a year.  And resales
them as pleasure horses....oporative word, yes?  After adding up the
expenses, she barely, I mean it!, breaks even.  But, she is doing what she
loves and a lot of horse who would be planted by now have good homes...I
know, at least temporarily.  Know how fickle folks can be.
Beth Gunn
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>
To: <guest@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: RC: Arab Slaughter Horses


> 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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