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On 8/17/07, Carol Scott <CJScott2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On nice horses at Auctions.  reason that I have to take nice horses to
> auctions. I try to rescue animals. Keep them here well fed, and cared for.
> Now we are moving and no one wants the critters. Horses, Arabs- reg. with
> goood blood lines. no takers.

If you genuinely cannot care for your horses, and cannot find them
good homes, wouldn't it be more humane to euthanize them - rather than
to send them to an auction, where they will most likely end up
enduring a long ride to the slaughterhouse?

"Hoping" they won't go to the killer's is unrealistic. Most do.

I don't think anyone with sense is saying horses do not need to be put
down, at times. The slaughterhouses do serve a function. But it's more
responsible, and humane, to put the horse down yourself rather than
send it on the type of transport situations that are currently in use.

~S

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