“Forever Home” only lasts until the job loss, the unexpected move, the divorce, non-renewal of the lease, broken arm or the scary diagnosis.
Real world is when it gets on the trailer, there it goes. You’ve lost all control.
Can’t say this often enough.
[QUOTE=RedmondDressage;8220045]
This sort of thing makes me cringe as well. I regularly peruse the feedlot listings because I must like being depressed… I always wonder how many of the horses in the ads like this end up showing up at the lot. If I REALLY wanted to be depressed I’d try tracking them. I’ll bet the number is obscene.
I’ve got a 32 y.o. that has been retired for close to 8 years now and was semi-retired before that… Apparently I’m the ultimate sucker - I should’ve just pawned him off on someone else when he was no longer useful. Shoot, I can’t even get rid of the young healthy ones! I pulled a feedlot horse last year. He’s young (11 or 12), sound, and useful (but not suited to my sport) with THE BEST bomb proof temperament. My plan was to rehab him, put some training on him, and find him a home… Here I am a year later and I can’t imagine sending him on because I don’t trust anyone else to do right by him long term. I’ll probably still be feeding him 20 years from now :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
I’ll do you one better! I tracked down my old show horse and told them that if they ever wanted to retire her, I’d take her! So when she was ready for retirement, I “bought” her (like $10) and vowed that she’d live out her days with me. I haven’t rode her more than a walk (like 3 times) since I was showing her when I graduated high school in 2005, but I just had to have her back so I could look at her in the field :lol:
Be very afraid, Dobbin and Pathfinder.
They want $1200 for two horses that you can’t do anything with? AND to retain control over said animals? :eek::eek: What’s that about having your cake…? Those poor horses.
One of the idiot trainerettes at the one barn I rode at sold a 22 yr old TB, broke down, in horrendous pain - I mean the horse could barely shuffle at the walk - for $2200. Sold him to a family that knew NOTHING, absolutely nothing about horses. Last I heard, they took him home, dumped him in a pasture when they figured out he couldn’t do what they wanted and he died there - alone and miserable.
For every sucker out there, there’s some greedy manipulative jerk willing to dump something.
Ugh, I hate these stories.
Funny thing is this applies to reading posts on COTH too.
I agree we get some stories, but in this case there are many photos of Dobbin and Pathfinder, plus ads for a couple other horses he has for sale. Unfortunately this one is real, I think.
Recently, a lady whom I hadn’t seen in about 20 years came up my driveway and told me I was taking her horse. She wanted to move and the horse couldn’t come with her (she said).
I’m not in a position financially to take on another animal (and said so) and I have mini horses and don’t want a strange full-sized mare plunked down with them in any case.
She got all offended and said, “WELL! If you won’t take her I’m going to have to put her down.” “OK then,” I said.
She was all upset at ME that I wouldn’t take this 20 year old (I remember when it was born) grade mare who is unbroken, has dropped suspensories and Cushings. And, woman admitted mare is a b*tch.
Wow.
these ads make me insane. I have a healthy, sound mare that is just too much horse for me and I can’t sell her. But this dude has a (basically) crippled mare and he thinks he will unload her? ACK!
[QUOTE=Lady Eboshi;8220144]
Firstly, let me say one should not believe even HALF the stuff you see on Facebook. Shut off that “feed” thing unless you want to wind up on anti-depressants with a lot of crap in your head you can’t “unsee.” Goes for Craig’s List, too. As someone said above, people can write anything and I’m convinced a lot of the time it is nothing more than twisted satire or trolling.
However: The irresponsible disposable-pet trogs of this world are now FULLY AWARE of the apparently numberless bleeding-heart-Go-Fund-Me because-I’m-penniless idiots out there who polish their halos by “rescuing” literally ANYTHING; and it seems to me lately that the more pathetic, the tastier the bait. This has become so lucrative a major East Coast broker now gathers up New Holland’s most emaciated to stock his bogus “No. 10 Pen” with desperate “rescue” bait he’s flipping weekly at up to $700 a head! Some of these horses have lately wound up needing “rescue” from the “rescuers” in short order, and some are re-posted for flipping again soon thereafter.
When the opportunity to rehab an unwanted horse comes your way through legitimate, real-life channels, go into it with your eyes wide open because you will likely accumulate a daunting pile of vet bills before it’s over. Make sure that income is really “disposable.” Aside from that, block FB & CL pathetic situation ads like you would block PORN. Because on some level, that’s pretty much what it is.
PEER PRESSURE, exerted by neighborhood horse owners’ standards, VETS, and diligent Animal Control enforcing EFFECTIVE laws are the only way to end abuse and neglect situations. That, and discouraging irresponsible breeding.[/QUOTE]
Texas, Washington and California too…“the truck is coming, the truck is coming.” Disgusting.
We have Amish communities who take good care of their horses and we have some who don’t.
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