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Hard Times for Horses

hypocritexposer

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“This is definitely a very bad time to be a horse,” Ms. Kanciper said, confirming the negative development — driven by panicky, cash-strapped owners and an unforgiving economy — that has uprooted Maple and an as-yet-unknown number of his species. Reports of a surge in abandoned or neglected horses; of overcrowded rescue, auction and retirement facilities; and of unwanted equines being fattened in feedlots before being shipped to slaughter in Mexico and in Canada have prompted the Unwanted Horse Coalition, an offshoot of the American Horse Council, to undertake a national survey on the problem.

According to Dr. Tom Lenz, a veterinarian who is the chairman of the coalition, although the elimination of domestic slaughterhouses has reduced the total number of horses killed, 100,000 to 150,000 are still exported for slaughter each year. “So we know they’re unwanted,” he said. “America needs a wake-up call about this issue. The general population has this love affair with the horse without realizing the costs and complications of owning horses in this economy.”

The expense of euthanizing horses that are sick, lame, old or dangerous is creating an ill-timed rise in “irresponsible owners,” Dr. Lenz said, and a new class of unwanted — and in some cases discarded — beasts. He finds logic in California’s proactive, if grim, response to the problem: It has established low-cost equine euthanasia centers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/long-island/01Rhorses.html?_r=1
 

Mike

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There was a guy at the coffee shop the other morning that said he took seven horses to the local salebarn and netted $192 for the lot.

Lot's of thin horses around now.
 

Cal

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It's just not fair that there's not a huge amount of this Obamulous money given to people that really couldn't afford a horse, but got one anyway! Aren't the PETA lobbyists doing their job? Isn't there Obamulous money that could be given to PETA?? :roll: sarcasm intended
 
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