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Re: [RC] was slaughter update. - Rebecca FabiszakA horse is not a person. Grandma's care can not be put into the same debate. We produce too many horses that will have no home unless the breeder keeps them. How fair is it to keep an animal alive that is is constant pain? I would prefer to see everyone spend $250 to euthanize an animal if that animals quality of life is so poor that it is a gift for them to be released from it. Instead, people will just let these animals starve as hay has become so pricey that only the rich can afford it, the rich that have built their houses on all of the hay fields that used to produce the feed. How is it that the animal welfare people have made it so that we can't take reasonable care of our companions? All those that are for keeping a horse alive at any cost, better start bearing that cost. When it is time for my daughter's 4-H pony to be put down (if he has another rotation), we are going to cut off his legs and have them sent to a lab to have them shellacked or whatever it is that they do so that the leg is a
teaching tool. If the rest of him could be put to good use, I would have no problem with it. Can't use the body if it has drugs in it though. At least his legs will go on to teach for years to come. Just my opinion. Beccy ----- Original Message ---- From: Karen Everhart <rainbowmeadowsranch@xxxxxxxxx> To: AERC <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Spottedracer@xxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:33:53 AM Subject: [RC] was slaughter update. Morning LP-
Since I am in the "rescue" business, my first question is: why do folk think that they have the "right" to throw away an animal? Any animal? It is made to sound like these folk are in a horrible situation because they no longer desire to care for the "good 'ol riding horse". I have been doing this for a few years now and I can tell you that 1 of 50 calls is from someone who can no longer (due to health, death of a spouse, divorce) care for the animal. Instead it is "she's old" or "she's lame" and we just don't need/want her anymore. Where does accountability and responsibility come in to play?
Is "throwing grandma away" also condoned? Unfortunately, in the US, that answer is often "yes". But that means that someone becomes financially responsible after she is thrown into a nursing home, etc. Too often it is state Medicaid, unless there has been a hospitalization, and then Medicare might pay for 100 days. We make it too easy to toss grandma into the nursing home and then pat our selves on the back if we visit once a month, all the while allowing our Sate taxes to pay for her care. More often than not, it is because caring for her is inconvenient.
So, when throwing people and animals away is no longer convenient (i.e.slaughter auctions) then perhaps we might see a ramping up of societal responsibility. If carcass removal is such a big deal (as so many say), then as a group (horse people) we need to come up with a solution rather than using slaughter as an acceptable option. Here at our ranch, we compost.
Just my highly biased opinion on the matter since I care for rescued horses every day and have lost faith in many "horse people".
Karen Everhart MEd
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