Check Fugly's blog entry today (Jan 19)

[Lori_B]

As for the person who, it was suggested might have owned this horse but who did not, the accusatory e-mail she received was uncool, but her extra-whiny with sprinkles rant about the mistake (a mistake that Fugly didn’t encourage, but which came out of and was corrected in the comments stream) was so extreme that she killed off any sympathy I had for her in about 2 sentences.

I’m certain that the thin, pretty, and wealthy are very oppressed by Fugly’s lack of regard for them. I can’t say that I find this very troubling. (insert eye-roll here)

[Penthilisea]

@Thomas_1;4643632

Well I’m also happy to declare myself a FUgly fan.

She may well make some people feel uncomfortable but so what! Am I bovvered?!

OMG Thomas_1, I love you, and Catherine Tate! Also Fugly. Not the least because she has accepted Fugly as an ok thing to call HERSELF…

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

[QUOTE=danceronice;4643623]

She already had (if she hasn’t deleted the comments) a person who was TOTALLY UNRELATED to this have their real name posted in the original thread about the horse, via their work e-mail, based on the suspicion that the horse might have been hers. (It wasn’t.) One of the readers saw the name in the posts suggesting possible IDs, and apparently sent a nasty e-mail to the person’s office. Said person responded on the thread objecting to being contacted at work and accused of dumping her horse at an auction and now having her name on the thread for everyone to see. Fugly’s response was basically “Shut up, you should be glad people care, and you shouldn’t have your name on the web if you don’t want people to e-mail you.” That person did NOTHING WRONG–the horse she owned was living in her back pasture. And I wasn’t aware having your name and e-mail on a professional website was an invitation to be sent accusatory letters at work because you MIGHT have owned a horse that ended up at auction.[/QUOTE]

I just went back and looked at that exchange. I didn’t understand at the time, and still do not, why that woman was so upset. The poster who contacted her immediately posted again to fugly that the woman still had the horse. I didn’t get the impression that the poster was accusatory in her email to the woman. The woman linked information about her horse life to her work profile, which I found really odd since the woman works as a prosecuting attorney (I never want my clients knowing anything about what I do for recreation). And fugly didn’t tell her to “shut up” - although she seemed mystified (as am I) by the woman’s reaction, she complimented the woman on giving her horse a nice retirement.

[Crooked_Horse]

[QUOTE=Lori B;4643366]
I adore fugly. Adore her. And this little adventure is why.

People can be as stupid, greedy, and cruel as they like, and they only behave better when behaving badly has DIRECT and PERSONAL consequences. And being outed on Fugly, if one is of the equestrian persuasion, and the outing is entirely truthful, is a pretty good consequence.

I hope that the asshat owner and her husband are shunned by their neighbors, their kids’ classmates’ parents, the checker at KMart, and everyone else who learns of their greedy lazy feckless stupidity.

This horse is safe. Saving this horse is great, but why stop there? By outing the owner, fugly is saying to the horse owner down the road who owns a 20 year old lamish horse they don’t feel like paying to feed anymore, that doing the easy thing has the potential to be costly to them. I love this. I can’t get up early enough in the a.m. to love this enough in a given day!!!

Since there are people whose parents didn’t teach them to be responsible because it was the right thing to do, there are those we can SHAME into a more or less acceptable level of responsibility. The internet is the tool to do this. Halle-freaking-lujah.[/QUOTE]

Ditto - 100%

[cloudyandcallie]

Things you don’t want to have happen to you:

1. 60 minutes investigative reporter and camearman showing up at your door;

2. Your major city tv investigative reporter and cameraman showing up at your door (I loved the WSB guys!);

3. Fugly displaying your horse as the fugly or you as the person who breeds or discards your horse.

I second her stance on euth-ing altho this horse’s owner wouldn’t miss the $ needed to retire that nice old horse.

And big deal for the prosecutor. Prosecutors are on TV all the time. Not only trying cases, but sometimes rescuing police horses off the streets by Piedmont Park, and doing dog adoptions and interventions for cats at the pound. All on TV. Prosecutors are used to having people like Lewis Grizzard flame them.:lol: much less getting calls and emails from people. All in a day’s work if you are an active prosecutor.

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

[QUOTE=cloudyandcallie;4643783]
All in a day’s work if you are an active prosecutor.[/QUOTE]

I know, right? I couldn’t believe the attack of the vapors this one got.:lol: I hope for her sake she’s thicker-skinned than she appeared on fugly.

[chism]

[QUOTE=Lori B;4643366]
I adore fugly. Adore her. And this little adventure is why.

People can be as stupid, greedy, and cruel as they like, and they only behave better when behaving badly has DIRECT and PERSONAL consequences. And being outed on Fugly, if one is of the equestrian persuasion, and the outing is entirely truthful, is a pretty good consequence.

I hope that the asshat owner and her husband are shunned by their neighbors, their kids’ classmates’ parents, the checker at KMart, and everyone else who learns of their greedy lazy feckless stupidity.

This horse is safe. Saving this horse is great, but why stop there? By outing the owner, fugly is saying to the horse owner down the road who owns a 20 year old lamish horse they don’t feel like paying to feed anymore, that doing the easy thing has the potential to be costly to them. I love this. I can’t get up early enough in the a.m. to love this enough in a given day!!!

Since there are people whose parents didn’t teach them to be responsible because it was the right thing to do, there are those we can SHAME into a more or less acceptable level of responsibility. The internet is the tool to do this. Halle-freaking-lujah.[/QUOTE]

ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY!!! What Lori B said!

What’s that saying…“Character is what you do when no one’s watching”? She thought no one was watching. If you don’t have a conscience, public shame & embarrassment helps you get one. If it stops even one person from throwing their used up faithful servants away like yesterday’s trash, it’s worth it.

[catknsn]

Thanks for all the comments. I admit I was thrilled to confirm her identify – I mean, he’s such a nice horse. ANY of you would have taken one look and said, whoa, what is THAT horse doing in a kill pen? You just can’t dump horses of his caliber discreetly, and that was her undoing.

Anyway, all is well that ends well for the horse - Hercules is happy, got his teeth floated today and x-rays of his ringbone to determine the best course of action there, and he has over 500 Facebook Friends. (Search Hercules the Horse to become his fan) He is the barn pet and everybody loves him. He’ll stay there til summer so that he has a large, dry indoor arena to play in while his hoof grows back. He isn’t having any problem holding shoes though and overall his prognosis is excellent.

ASB Stars, I have 5000+ unread e-mails, as I have frequently noted. I tell people all the time to post important or time sensitive stuff to my comments because I can’t keep up on my e-mails. Sorry but I do have, you know, a regular full-time job in addition to the blog and my Horse Illustrated column. And sometimes I like to sleep, shower, ride horses or go have margaritas with my friends, you know, other totally unreasonable uses of my time. I do not know what you are talking about. Not a clue. Why don’t you post this terribly important email here?

[Meredith_Clark]

I love Fugly!

She did a story of an owner that sent a lesson horse to slaughter. I was really good friends with people who had ridden at their barn all their life and I had also gone to a show there once.

I don’t know if the story was ever 100% confirmed but it made me think twice before supporting that farm.

There are a few farms over here on the East Coast I wish she would expose! New Holland is a melting pot for crazy horse assholes

[AddingStrides]

To all who say they don’t understand why this horse wasn’t put down, according to fugly he’s 90% better without so much as supplements. Why not humanely euthanize the owner, and everyone else who puts down perfectly healthy older horses? The horse was fine----just not properly cared for.

I once rescued a 27-year-old TB who was owned by a small, crappy lesson barn in Alexandria, Va. The owner said the horse was narcoleptic bec. he fell down while on cross ties once or twice while kids were grooming him.

I rehomed him with a fabulous horse rescue and two years later he’s fine, feisty and no longer falls down. The horse wasn’t narcoleptic. He was sleep-deprived and starved. The owner was a selfish, lying human who denied this old man enough private space so he could sleep at nite (group turnout in a small mud paddock) and starved him.

Both of these cases, fugly’s and the one i recount, are abuse by sick, selfish humans. The horses are completely innocent and should not be put down!

[oharabear]

[QUOTE=catknsn;4644345]
and he has over 500 Facebook Friends. (Search Hercules the Horse to become his fan) [/QUOTE]

I added him to Biff’s “favorite pages!” :lol:

[cloudyandcallie]

Ah from kill pen heading to slaughter to Facebook with 500 Friends.

Wish Fugly had time to out more people who discard horses like him and throw them away like trash. This is a much better ending that the former lesson horse who went to slaughter from NJ or PA, the thread last year or so.

[Carolinadreamin]

To all who say they don’t understand why this horse wasn’t put down, according to fugly he’s 90% better without so much as supplements. Why not humanely euthanize the owner, and everyone else who puts down perfectly healthy older horses? The horse was fine----just not properly cared for.

I believe the point many were making was that if the owner truly believed he was lame and/or beyond the point where she could help him, it would have been kinder that she herself take responsibility and have him humanely euthanized rather than sending him to the kill buyer where he would face a terrifying ride on a double decker and a gruesome death.

[MrWinston]

About Fugly

I am another fan of the Fugly blog. I’m not always interested in every entry but I really applaude her outing of asshats. In this case I think her point is valid. From the information on these people, they are very conscious of what others think of them and want to impress people. There are lots of people in the horse world like them. Losing status and respectability is a good way to make them think twice about abusing another horse the way they did this one. WTG Fugly!

I honestly don’t know how anyone can defend sending a horse that has faithfully served to an auction for kill. We know it’s not illegal but it is totally UNETHICAL and INHUMANE. Anyone who does this should be outed. I don’t want to hear the lame excuse about the cost of euthanizing and disposing of the horse. Find the funds somehow. If you really can’t, you have no business owning a horse.

[ASB_Stars]

[QUOTE=catknsn;4644345]
ASB Stars, I have 5000+ unread e-mails, as I have frequently noted. I tell people all the time to post important or time sensitive stuff to my comments because I can’t keep up on my e-mails. Sorry but I do have, you know, a regular full-time job in addition to the blog and my Horse Illustrated column. And sometimes I like to sleep, shower, ride horses or go have margaritas with my friends, you know, other totally unreasonable uses of my time. I do not know what you are talking about. Not a clue. Why don’t you post this terribly important email here?[/QUOTE]

You have a PM- so you don’t need to sort though emails… :winkgrin:

[FrenchFrytheEqHorse]

I used to be a fan of Fugly, but in the past few years, she’s gone from pointing out the obvious shouldn’t be bred/shouldn’t have been bred types to critiquing people’s riding skills (not sure how she is qualified to be doing this), calling out kids whose eyes are bigger than their pocketbooks, etc. It seems her popularity has begun to affect her ego.

That being said, this situation is absolutely deplorable. What this woman did to this horse is disgusting, and as an equine business owner with the means she has access to, she deserved to be exposed. I am hoping that this type of publicity will keep others from doing any kind of business with her, and that she becomes known in her area for this horrendous deed.

[lcw579]

@cloudyandcallie;4644549

Ah from kill pen heading to slaughter to Facebook with 500 Friends.

Wish Fugly had time to out more people who discard horses like him and throw them away like trash. This is a much better ending that the former lesson horse who went to slaughter from NJ or PA, the thread last year or so.

Harry, his name was Harry.

[up-at-5]

Where are the usual suspects, the “slaughterettes”? They should be here to defend the “one more use” tactic that they all so dearly covet. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Not that I miss them posting, but really, wouldn’t this be just the type of thing they support…the one final use of the animal?

I LOVE the Fugly blog. Sometimes it’s very hard to read, due to the nature of the topics, but it’s always well written, and I love the humour.

Everyone involved with horses should read FHOTD.

[Threebars]

[QUOTE=up-at-5;4645001]
Where are the usual suspects, the “slaughterettes”? [/QUOTE]

All over this thread, and as far as I can see, universally applauding Fugly’s work here.

Well, a couple of us anyway!

Slaughterettes don’t support asshattery.

[fanfayre]

Was Hercules his real name, or did Fugly et al who did such a wonderful job here, name him before they found out who he really is (ad says his name is Tiny)?
I’m asking because I knew a “Hercules”, a huge, bay TB gelding who evented at Prelim, ready to upgrade before being sold to Washington.

Love everything Fugly stands for and does, just never said it before. Keep up the GREAT work!!