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Post by JoanMRK on Jan 1, 2009 15:40:01 GMT -5
PS: My horses, however, will be taken care of by me throughout their older years... my Spanish mustang mare lived to be 42, even without teeth! ;D
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jan 1, 2009 15:47:34 GMT -5
While I may not be found of the horse slaughter, I feel the alternatives have been worse. No place for lame/unusable animals. People are letting them starve or turning them loose to fend for themselves. They stil end up going for slaughter, but to Canada or Mexico. Long, hard, terrifying days on a packed trailer and ending up in a terrible place. In Mexico there are no human laws and the horses go one of three places: slaughter; the rodeo for horse tripping or worse and the dump - where they are just used to haul trash until they drop. It is a very unkind end anyway you look at it. In my opinion, they needed to make the slaughter here more human and be regulated better.
The next step now that slaughter is gone in the US, may very well be that horses are not considered livestock and then we are all in a heap of trouble. There are always worse reprocutions to that stuff.
hard issues.
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Post by ctxkiger on Jan 1, 2009 16:25:39 GMT -5
42 are you serious?!?! I have never heard of a horse living that long...........I am not fond of taking a horse to slaughter either and personally never have.
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Post by canadiankigers on Jan 1, 2009 17:10:55 GMT -5
Years ago I used to go to an auction for horses every Tuesday in Kitchener. All the meat buyers were there and it was not unusual to see some pretty cruel stuff happening. I am happy to say that enough people spoke up. The handlers are no longer permitted to use whips, horses intended for meat must be posted as such and why. Also an SPCA agent and vet inspect all horses before they even come off the trailer. After charges were laid on those bringing in horses clearly neglected or abused, Kitchener is no longer a dumping ground for neglected or abused horses. The majority of horses that come through are older horses, lame horses, horses with uncureable breathing disorders or those with overly aggressive tendencies (for what ever reason)
I believe that there are those horse that can go for meat but I agree that a strict regulations regime and strong penalties for mistreatment or abuse need to be in place. Horse slaughter is NOT a place to dump a perfectly good horse that someone cannot sell, keep or take care of anymore. I would rather see them be given to others who would take them as pets, show horses or work horses. There are so many things that can be done with horses, why are we slaughtering perfectly good animals?
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Post by mustangdara on Jan 2, 2009 18:10:23 GMT -5
I was on the FHOTD blog ans she was talking about CBER....what a bunch of cons! thats real sad that unknowing folks think they are rescuing a horse at such a high price!
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jan 4, 2009 15:39:05 GMT -5
Yes, I saw that yesterday on FHOD....seems like a big scam and of course using the horses as pawns.
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Jan 4, 2009 20:35:09 GMT -5
Last year two mustangs came into that feedlot...one was named Forgotten. How does that not touch you, that a mare named Forgotten has been left for slaughter, for no reason other than the dude string she had been used by went under?
Thats when I began doing the research on CBER. What a mess. I posted about it on one of my blogs and I still get comments on it, from both people who've successfully adopted and think because they got a good horse, the organization is good, and from those who've seen the reality of the situation.
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Post by elikiger on Feb 2, 2011 21:00:30 GMT -5
Does anyone remember this? I have one of the filly's that were rescued and we're trying to locate her mom. The posts never said anything about a mare being there but I have learned there was. Can anyone help us locate my filly's mom?
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