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Post by Claire on Feb 16, 2012 12:57:06 GMT 1
Was reading this in my local paper. A local equine author Lesley Skipper who wrote horse care books including Let Horses be Horses and Understanding the Arabian Horse is being prosecuted for mistreatment of four horses, three of which had to be put down. The horses were stabled in a livery in a village round the corner from where I used to live! Here is the full story from the Northern Echo: www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9528634.Stockton_equine_author_denies_neglect_of_four_horses/I've never read her books and certainly won't be now. I'll let you know the outcome of the trial.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2012 13:14:49 GMT 1
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 16, 2012 16:40:08 GMT 1
totally shocked, i have a couple of her books ( Let horses Be horses and realise your horses true potential) and would have highly recommended them. Her/her horses have also appeared previously in either your horse/horse and rider magazine in 'behaviour' related articles. Thats so awful, i'm now wondering which poor horses it was as her books introduce their 'family' of horses in quite a bit of detail, i'm also wondering what happened
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Post by kunuma on Feb 16, 2012 18:52:09 GMT 1
Why is it always Arabs that finish up in this sort of situation? They just seem to attract the sort of people who have horses for the wrong reasons - there has been several cases (Including one very high profile one involving multi millionaires) where an arab stud became surplus to the owner's requirements - and the horses paid the price.
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Post by Claire on Feb 16, 2012 22:28:50 GMT 1
I'll continue to monitor the story in the papers here. What is puzzling is that if they were in a livery stables how come no-one reported them sooner?
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Post by garej on Feb 18, 2012 19:27:35 GMT 1
I'll continue to monitor the story in the papers here. What is puzzling is that if they were in a livery stables how come no-one reported them sooner? Perhaps the owner of the livery stables was the sort that was never around, but all that they cared about was if the money arrived on time? If they were the sort that werent highly knowledgeable about horses they might not have been bothered what the state of the animals was like on their yard as long as the owners paid on time? Also, perhaps the horses were in a dark corner of 4 stables in a row so nobody except the owner of the horses needed to go down and therefore nobody bothered about it. 'Or perhaps the owner of the livery yard knew but threatened anyone who "interfered" with the goings on of the yard (including raising concerns about how some people cared for their horses) with eviction? Hence why nobody rang the RSPCA until the horses were on death's door? All seem logical and it may have been a case of "out of sight out of mind".
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Post by Claire on Feb 18, 2012 21:05:11 GMT 1
Yes, I suppose we'll not know unless the full story comes out after the trial. I don't know why with the world the way it is today but I somehow always assume people with horses (or other animals) around care about them. Sadly it's not the case.
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