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Post by cally on Apr 19, 2013 6:06:10 GMT 1
SO sad to read that up to half of the wild Welsh pony population may have died due to starvation and the harsh weather. What I find most upsetting is that there are organised groups that supposedly are involved in their care so how did it get to this stage? Couldn't hay have been dropped in by air? Farmers do it for livestock so why not these treasured ponies? Why do we only hear about these terrible conditions when it's too late?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2013 7:04:48 GMT 1
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Post by kunuma on Apr 19, 2013 9:41:57 GMT 1
Cally _ it's happening everywhere there are meat crop ponies left to fend for themselves, I wish I hadn't seen the pictures of the ones on Bodmin Moor, it only made the news because someone bothered to go and shoot the rest to save them suffering.
It should not be allowed, but the ponies are not protected by welfare even in the same way as sheep and cattle. The lambs and calves are worth more than the foals, so their mothers are more likely to get fed. The ponies are not.
The practice of breeding vast numbers of unwanted ponies on the moors has been going on a long time, and the excuse for it continuing is just that apparently, that it has been going on a long time. I see vast numbers of in foal ponies every time I take the dogs out, I know what will happen to the foals, and I hate the human race more every time I look at the new borns.
I'm replying to you not because I want to depress eveyone one the board (don't google the Bodmin moor ponies!) but because I am glad that someone in another country has heard what is going on, perhaps that's the answer, we need to make this country ashamed of what we seem to be happy to accept as normal.
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Post by cally on Apr 20, 2013 10:16:41 GMT 1
Our country has a shameful record when it comes to wild horses. Our brumbies are technically feral animals, but to see the UK's beautiful native ponies suffer like this is just awful. In the article I read, they were not referred to as abandoned ponies, rosie, and there was a Welsh organisation that is (supposedly) involved in managing the integrity of the breed. I also read of the Bodmin ponies, Kunuma, and saw the horrific photos. I just find it very sad that such neglect goes on in such a relatively small country: down here you could walk for weeks or even months in some areas and not see another human, let alone a brumby. No animal should die of exhaustion giving birth and the suffering of the foals...just horrific.
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Post by garej on Apr 20, 2013 18:21:38 GMT 1
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Post by cally on Apr 29, 2013 14:18:36 GMT 1
I just read an old UK 'Horse and Rider' and in 2011 there was a large number of ponies die on Bodmin Moor back then, so no lessons learned there. Humans just suck, really.
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