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RE: [RC] How to HELP Horses/Mississipi - Spencer, Maryann LTCThere is something wrong with this story..... they don't die in a
few days when short of hay UNLESS... all they were fed is grain, they were bad
off in the first place, they ate poisonous weeds, etc. Perhaps he should
have allowed them to graze on his lawn but then it may have been TOO
manicured. GET A GRIP. One gets extra hay into one's barn when bad
weather is approaching.
Horses that are in standing water with nothing to eat and no place
to go because they are blocked by fences and buildings are likely to die because
of no hay and STRESS.
I too am listening to NPR as I do not have cable, etc and I work
shift work.
WHO is ultimately responsible for getting stuff to fed their
livestock? And yes, many are donating and many more will, including
me. BUT some of the stories just are not holding up. Think about
horses in small pens for LONG times and not dying but getting thinner and
thinner. The mess there has not been going on that long.
Someone is not telling the whole story.
For hay donation at least it is the time of the year when hay is in
good supply. I read a story once that said to get in your supply of hay
for the winter. I wondered why??? Well it is because there won't
necessarilly be any hay to buy before the spring grasses grown. A lot of
people do NOT understand that horses do NOT have to have grain but HAVE to have
forage/hay.
How do you know those minis did not drown from all the water with
no way to escape??? Ask those who were in the Tropical storm in Houston a
few yrs ago what happens when horses are swept down stream and there are fences
preventing an escape???
I was awakened this morning by my clock radio...NPR, guarenteed to make you jump out of bed. I turned on CNN while I was still laying there, and saw the piece on the poor people in Waveland Mississippi. The roads are clear enough for them to return to their homes, which are only piles of rubble. It is heartbreaking. A little farther up the road, is the home of some Doctors, the Bradfords. Its a nice brick home, so it is partially intact. In their front yard are dead miniature horses. The Dr. was crying on TV for help from the American Miniature horse Association to help save his surviving minis. They are starving, there is no HAY! I was crying to see it, that is the last straw. !!! If I lived anywhere close to there I would have volunteered my services as a nurse, or drove my truck down with supplies, I would have taken my horse trailer with a load of hay for these people. There must be many more!!!! I am IMO, sickened at the bumbling ineptitude of the way the government is handling the human tragedy in New Orleans. SEVENTY buses to evacuate the superdome....excuse me, when we take the kids on a fieldtrip to the museum there are over 70 buses at the museum! And we get all those kids loaded up, to and from the place in an hour or so. That is just one example. You have all seen what a stupid insane mess it is down there. Insane how our government is handling this disaster. Useless!!! I can tell you as a nurse that a lot of those people slogging around in that water are gonna be dead soon from diseases. AS Horse people, it is apparent that NOBODY is gonna help these people with horses, except us. It is our jurisdiction. Apparently the American Miniature Horse Association is flooded with calls and they have a response plan on their website. It is www.amha.org you can send an email to their representative, alison@xxxxxxxx If you click on their website, you can send a donation to rescue the Bradfords, through a paypal donation. I don't know if there are other people needing hay and help in those areas, I would hope that it is posted on ridecamp if there are specific people needing help moving horses and so forth. To make this endurance related....we are the ones with the big trailers, and
we are acclimated to heat! Thank you riders! This is one way of making up for the bad things people do, like to poor Dixie the horse whose tail got burned off, as posted by Jim! Beth Glover
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