What would you do if you visited someone you have known very well for many years, and found several horses so thin they are bordering on emaciated (even though the person has plenty of feed, and plenty of money), kept in an exposed field, with no shelter? Someone who claims to be a "natural horse trainer who takes in and rehabs horses no-one else can ride" yet who finds most of their own horses impossible to catch? Whose partner rides in a bitless bridle, but has such wicked hands that the horse is still in pain?
I'm in that situation. I asked about the state of the horses, and was told that they simply wintered badly. Asked when their teeth were last done - was told last year, the person concerned did it. Asked about worming - was told the worst of the horses, a mare, was done twice with equest and does not have any worms. Asked about feeding - was told she is being fed sugar beet pulp and conditioning cubes. But - people who keep their horses there say they have already tried to get something done about the state of the owner's horses, and nothing has happened. That those horses are not being fed anything extra, and don't even get much haylage - and what they are fed is not good quality. I felt sooooo sorry for that poor chestnut mare. When I went in the field she came over to me and just rested her head on me. She was so weary and sad, I just wanted to take her home. From a distance she doesn't look too bad as she still has a full winter coat, but get close and she's just a bag of bones covered in skin. : (((( Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes"
