[QUOTE=Coanteen;8753705]
To be fair, she may have understood AC’s advice. I imagine “Get a lawyer and sue” may have been the easiest way of getting her to back off them.
OP, animal abuse/neglect are not private-lawsuit issues. They’re not things one private citizen sues another over.
This is when the government steps in, via its proxies, like AC. If AC had reason to believe abuse/neglect was occurring, the action was theirs to take.
Instead, you claim they told you that the animal was being abused in their opinion, but… you needed to privately sue its owner? In all honesty that pretty much translates to “Go fly a kite, lady, we have work to do.”
You sold your horse. The new owner said they’d follow your vet’s advice, but may have reconsidered once they discussed with their vet and decided yours was a kook (whatever the mare’s diagnosis supposedly is, a vet who’s just overall anti-vax is not gonna be seen as anything but that); there’s nothing wrong with that. An owner has the right to choose a vet whose opinion they trust.
Horse went up for sale, and you were offered dibs. You couldn’t afford the price, someone else did, end of story - even if you had a written contract with ROFR, it would’ve gone the same way. You did get ROFR! You couldn’t afford the horse; having the ROFR on paper wouldn’t have changed that.[/QUOTE]
Well said.
Once sold, the new owners were perfectly within their rights to obtain a 2nd veterinary opinion and follow it as they saw fit. The end.
When you sell your horse you no longer have full control of it, no matter what type of contract you may use. Another option could have been a lease, in which you would still retain ownership, control, (and responsibility for expenses.) But it’s water under the bridge now.
Let it go.