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We frequent horse auctions a few times/month.  The meat buyers do not buy 
crippled horses.  If the horses with club feet, and "noodle legs", are sent 
to auction, chances are they will end up suffering longer in someone's 
backyard.  What guarantee is there that the mustangs will go to a meat 
buyer?  The reality isa they will go to the hgighest bidder.  If thes horses 
are not fat, the meat guys will not bid.

Belinda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Doubledal@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Mustangs


> > Note that the ruling states over 10 years of age OR if the animal has
> > been to  adoption at least 3 times.  Meaning that young, healthy horses
> > will  potentially go to slaughter too - lots of them.  That's the part
> > that is most  disturbing to me.
>
> So, if they are crippled, rank, or otherwise unsuitable for adoption, they
> should be held in holding pens until they are 10 years old?
>
> I notice that it says "at least" three times--so it is not a strict "three
> strikes and you're out" sort of thing.  Looks like there is plenty of
> wiggle room in there for those in charge of adoption to say, "Hey, this is
> a perfectly sound and loveable youngster, we will hang on for awhile until
> the right person comes along."  But for the ones such as one poster
> described, with the noodle legs and the club feet, if they are passed over
> for adoption for such reasons, they don't have to spend the rest of their
> lives crippling around a pen.
>
> The only other alternative, since there are not enough adopters, and since
> there is a steady supply of new horses that need to be brought into the
> facilities, would be to build more and more holding pens, for which there
> is neither money, nor labor to staff them and care for the animals.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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