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Maryann; I saw dead horses on TV, bloated with their legs sticking up, rottin under piles of debris on his front yard. This man is a breeder of Minis, he is not a stupid idiot feeding them with sacks of grain. Maybe he took in extra hay, and water etc, but if you read my story completely you would have read that the surrounding homes are piles of rubble. Perhaps his extra supplies of hay or feed were destroyed by the 20 foot storm surge and 200 mph winds, you think??  No his lawn is not manicured to graze the mini's and founder them, there is NO manicured lawn left to speak of. There is mud and head high piles of stacks of broken lumber, glass, bricks, electric wires. Those doctors were lucky to have a nice brick home, which has a few walls standing, but their windows were all blown out, if someone nailed plywood up, it was ripped away, roofs shingles are missing.   The horses are not standing in water blocked by fences, dying of stress, there are no fences left.  He has safely gathered his entire herd into a couple of stalls. He was just ONE example of what livestock owners in that area are dealing with. Its not just his horses either, its his neighbors and family who are curled up on the street crying cause all that 's left of their home is a flower pot, a wet remote, and a pile of lumber.  I'm not sure exactly what your point of flaming me was.  You can be sure that if it was your horse, or my horse, let alone our whole life, we'd be crying on TV too.

For anyone else interested, the AMHA has recieved many calls and donations, and they have people going down to that area to assist the Bradfords and their neighbors with food, water, supplies for the humans and the pets.  It feels kind of nice to be able to direct a donation to a particular face or small community, somewhat like adopting a family. Already we can track the progress of that community, on www.amha.org 

Beth

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Subject: RE: How to HELP Horses/Mississipi
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 03:14:28 -0400

There is something wrong with this story..... they don't die in a few days when short of hay UNLESS... all they were fed is grain, they were bad off in the first place, they ate poisonous weeds, etc.  Perhaps he should have allowed them to graze on his lawn but then it may have been TOO manicured.  GET A GRIP.  One gets extra hay into one's barn when bad weather is approaching. 

 

Horses that are in standing water with nothing to eat and no place to go because they are blocked by fences and buildings are likely to die because of no hay and STRESS.  

 

I too am listening to NPR as I do not have cable, etc and I work shift work. 

 

WHO is ultimately responsible for getting stuff to fed their livestock?  And yes, many are donating and many more will, including me.  BUT some of the stories just are not holding up.  Think about horses in small pens for LONG times and not dying but getting thinner and thinner.  The mess there has not been going on that long.   Someone is not telling the whole story. 

 

For hay donation at least it is the time of the year when hay is in good supply.  I read a story once that said to get in your supply of hay for the winter.  I wondered why???  Well it is because there won't necessarilly be any hay to buy before the spring grasses grown.  A lot of people do NOT understand that horses do NOT have to have grain but HAVE to have forage/hay. 

 

How do you know those minis did not drown from all the water with no way to escape???  Ask those who were in the Tropical storm in Houston a few yrs ago what happens when horses are swept down stream and there are fences preventing an escape??? 

 

Hi friends;

I was awakened this morning by my clock radio...NPR, guarenteed to make you jump out of bed. I turned on CNN while I was still laying there, and saw the piece on the poor people in Waveland Mississippi. The roads are clear enough for them to return to their homes, which are only piles of rubble. It is heartbreaking. A little farther up the road, is the home of some Doctors, the Bradfords. Its a nice brick home, so it is partially intact. In their front yard are dead miniature horses. The Dr. was crying on TV for help from the American Miniature horse Association to help save his surviving minis. They are starving, there is no HAY!

I was crying to see it, that is the last straw. !!!  If I lived anywhere close to there I would have volunteered my services as a nurse, or drove my truck down with supplies, I would have taken my horse trailer with a load of hay for these people. There must be many more!!!!

 I am IMO, sickened at the bumbling ineptitude of the way the government is handling the human tragedy in New Orleans.   SEVENTY buses to evacuate the superdome....excuse me, when we take the kids on a fieldtrip to the museum there are over 70 buses at the museum! And we get all those kids loaded up, to and from the place in an hour or so. That is just one example. You have all seen what a stupid insane mess it is down there. Insane how our government is handling this disaster. Useless!!!   I can tell you as a nurse that a lot of those people slogging around in that water are gonna be dead soon from diseases.

AS Horse people, it is apparent that NOBODY is gonna help these people with horses, except us. It is our jurisdiction.  Apparently the American Miniature Horse Association is flooded with calls and they have a response plan on their website.   It is www.amha.org    you can send an email to their representative,   alison@xxxxxxxx    If you click on their website, you can send a donation to rescue the Bradfords, through a paypal donation.   I don't know if there are other people needing hay and help in those areas, I would hope that it is posted on ridecamp if there are specific people needing help moving horses and so forth. 

To make this endurance related....we are the ones with the big trailers, and we are acclimated to heat!  We also know how to physically handle dehydration and so forth, we as distance riders are trained, and can share our knowledge.

Thank you riders!   This is one way of making up for the bad things people do, like to poor Dixie the horse whose tail got burned off, as posted by Jim!

Beth Glover

 

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