They visited our yard today. I just need to have a little rant! My friend who owns the yard was apparently refusing to give her/our animals any hay when they were out, they were reduced to eating snow, and the biggest was a skeleton and rugless!
The truth actually was that all of her beasts had had breakfast and a big haynet, before she turned them out at eleven for a leg stretch. They are mostly small natives, as fat as pigs, and spotless. Although it was cold, the sun was out and it was nice, so she took their rugs off so that they could air and roll. Her warmblood is only 6, and is recently broken. He is muscling up nicely, but is still a little hippy. He hasn't got a single rib on show! He was playing with the snow!
Now in the summer, I reported eight large horses in a one acre field, belonging to a notorious neglector in this area, I know her personally, had physical evidence of the neglect, the horses were up to their necks in shit and mud, had nothing to eat and no water for days on end. I was told that they could do nothing until the animals were starving or showing signs of dehydration. it took a week for the RSPCA to visit.
My friends/my horses were out rugless TODAY. The RSPCA must have responded instantly. They were there within two hours.
I know it's really six of one and half a dozen of the other, but in the face of REAL neglect it's bloody annoying!
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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 11/02/2012 20:10
It could have been anyone. Friend is frowned upon round here. In an area of hunters and show jumping wannabes, she owns and rides little native ponies. According to the inspector, they are all in perfect condition, and have no problems with being ridden, she is small, and obviously looks after them with great care. She has been reported for riding them before and the inspectors have always been more than happy. What the nosey people fail to realise is that not one of any of the ponies on our yard would probably even be alive if friend hadn't taken them on. They are all slightly mad, wonky or were once neglected. Her warmblood, was imported and then rejected for having one incredibly boxy foot and one flat one. He was out through his whole body because of this, and was on his way to market, where he would very likely have been sold for meat. She spotted a gorgeous temperament and the promise of fantastic action, bought him for peanuts and has spent two years putting him straight. She has bought, fixed and rehomed, many of the local rejects and problems over the years, and people are happy to fob them off on her with one hand, and slag her off with the other!
People ought to mind their own business! 
Sorry, late night rant! I'm very protective of my little friend!
Bunch of wasters,not only do they release urban foxes on farmland around here,but they bullied my friend horribly when someone reported her pony.The pony was elderly and undergoing vet treatment,but the RSPCA said that the vet she was using [the best in the county] were not the vet they recommended and tried to bully her into changing.
We used to get lots of abandoned animals around here and gave up ringing the RSPCA,as they would never help.We rehomed them ourselves or through other charities.
for your friend Saggy.Can't the RSPCA put some sort of tag on her details so that if someone reports maliciously again,they'll know to ignore it?
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