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[RC] backyard breeders, slaughter - A. Perez

 I've been 'into' equine rescue for a couple of years, in terms
of reading the websites and seeing what is available for
adoption.  My impression is that most horses going to slaughter
are not 'surplus' resulting from indiscriminate breeding, as is
the case with dogs and cats, but they are unsound, often due to
hard use or injury.  The fact of the matter is that many owners
cannot afford to keep an unrideable horse around as a yard
ornament.  Add to that the problem of people who cannot bear to
have a horse put down, so they send it to auction... where it
gets bought by a killer buyer and ends up in a slaughterhouse.

Horses don't have litters like cats, and not to many people keep
a stallion around, so over productions simply isn't the big
problem.  If it were, there would be far more sound horses out
there for adoption.  Horse racing (flat and harness) put far
more horses into the pipeline than does backyard breeding.

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