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[RC] Spanish mustangs/breeding - Sharon Hahn
Why is it that news about neglected or auction-bound horses suddenly brings people out of the woodwork who weren't considering acquiring another horse? Seems like there is a market for good horses (i.e., sound, healthy, good bloodlines, actively ridden and competed in whatever they compete at), and a market for horses in trouble (starving, neglected, about to be put down or sold at auction), but not so much of a market for ordinary horses that just hang around in somebody's pasture and maybe haven't been ridden in a while, so the ordinary ones tend to have to move up or down a category before they can find new homes (and sadly, it's all too often down). I also wonder - are all of the people who step in to adopt "free" horses equipped to properly care for them? Do some of the "emergency herd dispersals" result from kind-hearted people who took in more animals than they could handle in response to call(s) for help from someone else? I'm not really trying to make any kind of point here - it's just something I think about from time to time. -- Want an e-mail address like mine?
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