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RE: [RC] The Old Way (was: Spanish Mustangs) - heidiWell, Kat, you are talking individual owners taking a moral and financial responsibility to have their individual horse euthanized on their property. That is what we want! But this thread is about people creating/accumulating more horses than they have a plan for, and passing their responsibility to others, by just sending the horse down the road to auction or abandoning them. Well, actually, Terry, Kat is talking about the fact that YOU stated (in this thread!) that "urbanization" made it impossible to have local slaughter facilities, and she is pointing out that that is not the case--the problem is that people (like you, judging from your scores of past posts on the subject) have pressured Congress to pass laws making it illegal to slaughter horses for meat. She would like to be able to make the same "moral and financial responsiblity" and have her horse put down by the local butcher, the option for which IS FULLY AVAILABLE TO MOST OF US FOR OTHER SPECIES despite urbanization (ie your argument about that is full of holes). If it were not for a bunch of bleeding hearts who have turned veterinarians into "Dr. Death" (and Kat is right again--vets would much prefer being able to concentrate on life rather than being the harbingers of death) that "moral and financial" option would still be available for responsible owners to end the lives of their horses, rather than be forced by legislation to accumulate them because there are frequently no other options (one thing urbanization HAS done is remove many of the options for burial or for simply leaving a shot carcass out for nature's scavengers to dispose of), and finally resort to turning them loose because people like yourself have legislated away one of the more efficient means of taking "moral and financial responsibility." I concede that there are "collectors" of horses that are pathological. Those are the ones that make the news--but those are not the ones who make up the bulk of the slaughter population. There are already laws in place that allow prosecution of people who neglect and abuse horses--we don't need MORE laws for that. But what we are seeing now is that we cannot enforce such laws, because people like you have so burdened the enforcement system with abandoned horses by REMOVING a means of "moral and financial responsibility" for getting rid of horses that have no function that there will be more and more horses suffering for lack of enforcement, since enforcement is swamped. Congratulations, Terry. We are now reaping what you have sowed. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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