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Interesting here on the big cat theory.

 

I reported and then helped to rescue 5 Arabs back at Christmas.  The county I live in doesn't have a "real" animal shelter.  But it has a lady, that owns a private zoo.  She is the licensed Animal control officer. She runs a dog/cat shelter, and on some occasions does house horses that are neglected.  Anyway, she had to keep these 5 horses on the zoo property.  She has about 60 acres, but the large pastures are for her cattle.  She then has several smaller, 3 acre paddocks with run-in sheds.  These have been used for her camels, llamas, etc.  I was concerned that the horses would be uncomfortable in these conditions.  They literally had tigers, lions, bears and hyenias across the driveway from them....watching them.  The horses settle in after of all things, being scared to death of CAMELS.  That was funny, Arabian horses scared of camels.  At any rate, the horses handled it great.  I now have one of the 5, and he is going to make his debute on the endurance trail this fall at Big South Fork.

 

Jody and Brego (the new rescue pony, who was so glad to see food, he didn't care about tigers)

Tx Trigger <txtrigger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They can't inject the animal and then use the meat to feed the wildlife, that is why they shoot them. The only other question I'd ask any of these sanctuaries is, WHEN will they be doing it. Some take the horses, and then feed them, and keep them until meat is needed, but the horses are living near the big cats etc., and hear them, smell them and such. We actually adopted a horse out of The Wildlife Waystation in So. CA. They had a small herd, from all the donations, and they kept them up in a small field. This horse had nothing wrong physically, just was too much horse for the woman who donated him. After we had the horse a few months, we found ourselves riding near the Waystation, and when he heard the animals start roaring etc. (it was feeding time) he got VERY nervous. I'd ask if I could keep the horse at my place until they needed the meat, so they could put it down right away upon arrival, and if I could not be there, ask a friend to over-see the task.

 

It is a very good way to have your horse go back into the food chain.

 

Jonni

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