Animal Rescue People

2underage

Well-known Member
I like most animals and do not want to see any mistreated but I do not understand the animal rescue people. First the rescuer is usually a young female who just loves animals, especially horses. To save these wonderful creatures from becoming dog food they get a horse trailer, usually a borrowed or free one, and go about the county side looking for horses to rescue. To that part they are mostly successful as many horses were acquired for some teen age daughter or son who has moved on and no longer has any interest in the animal. Before long the rescue person has a corral full of animals and at that point they discover that hay and other feed is costly.

They now begin to look for others to help with the cost of the great rescue and start contacting their neighbors and local farmers for donations of cash or feed.
When they come to see me I do give them a few round bales of hay but my generosity is waning.

Many of these rescue operations wind up as follows,. The rescuer's neighbors notice that the animals look sick and malnourished and they call the SPCA which sends a Vet to check the animals and many of those old horses are old and in pretty bad shape. Then the law is called and a legal process is started that often leads to conviction and a fine. This could have been avoided if the people advising the would be rescuer that animal care is very expensive and before attempting any animal rescue one should be sure that you have the space, the money and the time to provide for animals. Just saying.
 
Most of these folks have the best intentions, although often misguided. I have had issues with locals adopting stray dogs, [I love dogs ] and turning them loose on our cattle. Sometimes that big dog to give to a home because he needs room to run is a guy trying to get rid of a problem dog. When the laws about horses changed here it made it hard to get rid of old horses that are going to look bad no matter what. And horse saviors don't know what they are getting into. We even had a hog rescue near us for those folks that bought those cute pigs and found they had acquired something they did not understand.
 
(quoted from post at 16:18:58 01/11/18) I like most animals and do not want to see any mistreated but I do not understand the animal rescue people. First the rescuer is usually a young female who just loves animals, especially horses. To save these wonderful creatures from becoming dog food they get a horse trailer, usually a borrowed or free one, and go about the county side looking for horses to rescue. To that part they are mostly successful as many horses were acquired for some teen age daughter or son who has moved on and no longer has any interest in the animal. Before long the rescue person has a corral full of animals and at that point they discover that hay and other feed is costly.

They now begin to look for others to help with the cost of the great rescue and start contacting their neighbors and local farmers for donations of cash or feed.
When they come to see me I do give them a few round bales of hay but my generosity is waning.

Many of these rescue operations wind up as follows,. The rescuer's neighbors notice that the animals look sick and malnourished and they call the SPCA which sends a Vet to check the animals and many of those old horses are old and in pretty bad shape. Then the law is called and a legal process is started that often leads to conviction and a fine. This could have been avoided if the people advising the would be rescuer that animal care is very expensive and before attempting any animal rescue one should be sure that you have the space, the money and the time to provide for animals. Just saying.
I tried to donate to a horse rescue once. I had about 10 tons that needed to be moved. They said they would take it. They showed up with one of their friends with their friends equipment and hauled a load. They weren't getting it done so I hauled them a load. A few weeks went by and they hadn't done anything. I then called a friend and sold it to him for a wholesale price. Contacted the horse rescue and told them the hay was gone and could they send me a receipt so I could get a write off. It never came.
Another time I hauled a load to another horse rescue. They didn't have money. I had to wait while they went to a bank machine. Then they gave me a sob story about how they didn't have money and how hard it was to care for the horses. Then they proceeded to tell me about their 10k stallion they had rescued. I told them great, you can sell him to help feed these other horses. She said " O no! We are going to breed him and show him!"
I no longer have any sympathy for them b#*%@s!
 
Don't they recycle horses in France? Look what the huggers have accomplished in just the past year. They killed the Ringling Brothers Circus. Just a few days ago I heard that the tourist horse draw carriages are out of b7siness in Philadelphia. They took all 10 horses to some place where if you "ADOPT" a adorable horsey, you can't use them for any business. That is going to fly isnt it. There are cities that are passing laws that no exotic animals can be used in any show. Don't worry, soon it will be any animal. The insane have taken over the country.
 
reminds me of a not to close neighbor that had 3 horses in a pen at the end of his driveway with a sign that said free horses, couple days later when he went to feed them there was 4.
 
The problem is actually wider than illustrated in your example. Owners of many horse boarding facilities are at fault on a much greater scale. They one day find themselves as business owners facing cost vs. profit and the first thing they do is to threaten the horses health that they're boarders have entrusted them with. They overgraze the horses on too small a plot and eventually they are faced with an overall failure of the grass so that fields they put out their boarded horses on have become dirt and cannot support any feeding. These areas with destoyed grass may take years to recover. It happens frequently. Or they buy poor quality hay or do not feed their horses entrusted in their care enough also shorting them on grain.

The horse boarding industry is largely a function of the economy. When the economy is booming they prosper. When economy goes in the ditch many boarding facilities go belly up and the horses being cared for suffer as well.
 
I hate government, rules and regulations, but I wouldn't have a problem if they required a license to buy a horse? They could charge a disposal fee up front and need a 10 page justification form in triplicate and notarized.
 
Had about the same encounter that Oliie had. Rescue called and wanted hay delivered. Said we will pay you and have people to unload it. Get there and they want to carry it bale by bale about 300 ft. No way, move 2 trucks and spend about 15 minutes backing into there "barn". Place looked worse than where the animals had probably come from. Will not deal with them and there is one about 2 miles from me always on Craigslist begging for donations which they end up selling. Same as the animals, always trying to sell for top dollar even when they are old and worn out. Just like cattle, horses need to be culled and shipped. Did it all the time in my younger years. Shoot me now or shoot me later. Fact of life.
 
What is the difference between a horse or dog that is ether a nuisance or too old to go on,,verses a rat or a ground hog that gets exterminated ?? They are all animals.. I see the TV adds where the lonesome sad voice trys to get us to send money to "save" a dog...I bet little or none of the money received gets to a dog,s health...
 
Same ones will initiate abuse claims against reputable owners, farms etc. One had best be careful about who they let in to their place.
 
The SPCA is a joke,I called them on my niehbor who left two horses on his property and moved back with his mother 50 miles away.I ended up feeding them with my feed and hay all winter because the SPCA said they could not tresspass to check out the horses.He could see from my property that they were negelected, but nothing was done. He even advised me not to tresspass to feed the horses.WTF.I did and they survived the winter. The niehbor finnally moved back and started to care for them again.
 
I have owned horses for over 50 years. Still do, my problem is if I send a horse to the salebarn, there is a DARN GOOD REASON. I like horse trading, and if one goes to the barn instead of me selling it face to face, you can bet its no good!! I have seen a number of horses in the "kill pen" with the bleeding hearts trying to "rescue"them. If they are in the kill pen they are either old crippled or outlaws. I have a horse here now that I need to put down. My wife bought him as a baby, and he is an awesome cow horse, but he is crippled, and there is no way that she can sell him. That is the hardest part of owning them.
 
The VERY WORST deal I ever saw was when Haiti got hit by a hurricane. A group of well meaning but stupid people went there to save the dogs. In the mean time, thousands of humans were without shelter, food and water. Don't get it - dogs over humans !!!
 





































Some times people advertise to give unwanted , or unaffordable horses free to good homes, on Kijji or Facebook . So one Gal was going around and getting these horses , and taking them to her farm. Some folks would come by and see their old horses once or twice maybe , most never. Anyway this gal would feed them up , and get some flesh on them , then send them to slaughter in Quebec. She was making a good dollar at this too. One crazy lady caught wind of this , after she had abandoned her horse to this other woman, and tried to have charges brought against her for sending "her horse " to slaughter. It didn't go anywhere once the police found out she had relinquished ownership to another person , it was then hers to do with as she pleased within the law. Some people are just dumb !
 
Let on their place my !@... they just walk right in and there is nothing you can do. Shame it isn't the old west. Neighbor up north raises veal calfs. He got in all kinds of trouble cause some ^%$?@?^ came waltzing right into his place and had a fit, and a camera and took puictures of the penned animals. Should I say a female? Was a real mess. Funniest thing about the whole mess.....He is the local large animal VET !!!! If you thump on them for trespass you are the baddie.
 
Know a lady that loves animals so she was going to catch stray cats so folks could adopt them. She was going around to empty old barn and sitting live traps to catch them. Don't think the project went over very good. Here the cats were living in a good environment and she was going to make there life better. A cat is a animal that can live out in the middle of nowhere and still survive.
 
(quoted from post at 22:27:16 01/11/18) The VERY WORST deal I ever saw was when Haiti got hit by a hurricane. A group of well meaning but stupid people went there to save the dogs. In the mean time, thousands of humans were without shelter, food and water. Don't get it - dogs over humans !!!

Oh man! My ultimate pet peeve!!! I see all these posts by people about how they "rescued" a kitty or doggie and their friends all laud them as HEROES of some sort. I got fed up with it and flat out asked why these HEROES didn't make a real difference and become foster or adoptive parents to the tens of thousands of in need children out there. "Oh, I can't do that!!!" Horse puckey they can't! It's just that they can't put a kid in a kennel for 2 weeks while they go to Aruba or Vegas. Makes me sick to my stomach.
 
A guy who lives in the local "town" would bring home stray cats and feed them. Eventually, all this food on his front stoop attracted every stray cat with a good nose. He ended up with several DOZEN cats. Now this is a run down town, but people still have to go THROUGH it. He lives on the main street, in one of the old stores, so all these cats (some estimated over 150) would be furry little road hazards, even bothering the local Amish when they drove by in a buggy. Anyhow, it was getting outta hand.
The guy took a 2 week vacation to Texas, and left a big pile of food on the stoop. When he came back, there were only about 5-6 cats left...and the food was gone....
Nobody knows what happened to the either.....
 
Local donkey rescue was advertising they needed hay, my wife decided that would be a good way to get rid of last year's round bales. We'd donate 40 bales, but they had to come get it. After a couple of weeks of dithering, they decided that it wasn't good enough for their donkeys, even though they never came out and looked at it. I figured that would be the outcome, but knew better than to tell my wife "I told you so".
 
My brother-in-law's father used to go to the local auction barn before silo filling and buy an old crow bait horse for $20. He'd put the horse in the silo and start blowing silage in. The horse would stomp around to stay on top of the silage and pack it in the process.

When the silo was full with the horse on top, the old man would take a high powered rifle, shoot the horse off the top of the silo, make tankage out of him, and feed him to the hogs.

One day a gal from the local humane society got wind of it, and came out to the farm and threw a 2 hour tantrum. Next year it was business as usual.
 
That's way to far. Now if they wanted to do that if you wanted to start a shelter...... I had horses for years so does a lot of my family. We never had more than we could take care of and never had to ask anyone else take care of them. Don't group everyone together because many horses are in good hands. There are also a lot of really stupid people without an understanding of their actions till its to late.
 
(quoted from post at 08:38:48 01/12/18) Local donkey rescue was advertising they needed hay, my wife decided that would be a good way to get rid of last year's round bales. We'd donate 40 bales, but they had to come get it. After a couple of weeks of dithering, they decided that it wasn't good enough for their donkeys, even though they never came out and looked at it. I figured that would be the outcome, but knew better than to tell my wife "I told you so".
I think it's like a lot of Charity's. They just want money do they can spend it how they see fit.
 

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