Re: Please help save our horses!!!!

[Nancy DuPont <htrails@earthlink.net>]

Yes, slaughterhouses are a fact of life.  I have worked to protect the
inhumane transport of these animals - unecessary suffering. I have tried to
keep good bloodstock, young horses and healthy animals away from them by
marketing them for others to good trail homes especially when the market
fell apart for those people who senselessy bred Arabians (and others) for
the tax write off and then had no clue what to do with them.  In my county
I can see my acquaintances riding great horses that I moved from the "throw
away" pile into decent homes.
I have also assisted brand inspectors in locating stolen horses that almost
went to slaughter.
Having said that, I acknowledge slaughterhouses and the animal control
centers are a fact of life.  You kill dogs and cats because some one wanted
to "see" what would happen when mama dog had a litter.  Then take them all
to the pound!

But please, in all fairness to this person who is worried about the cruelty
and unfairness to animals in this world--the person who started this
thread-- PLEASE! Don't ask a question like: "Why aren't you at the auction
buying them and bringing them home?" 
Who can do that?  We do what we can do....

I feel compassion for the anxiety felt by people who care and think there
is actually one answer!




At 03:15 PM 2/21/99 EST, you wrote:
>OK, I promised myself I would stay out of this one...but here I am.
>
>Everyone is whining about the fact that these horses are getting sent to
>slaughter because they are old, lame or the owner just doesn't want them.  So
>if this bothers you so much, why aren't you at the auctions buying these
>horses and bringing them home.  Probably for the same reason that the
previous
>owner sent them there...they can't afford it.
>
>I am not advocating slaughter of horses...not by any stretch of the
>imagination.  I just know with my limited resources, I can't afford to bring
>one home and save it.
>
>Because horse meat is not accepted in our culture, that doesn't mean that it
>is wrong.  Look at India, they won't eat cows -- they are sacred.  How
many of
>us had beef to eat in the last week?
>
>Just something to ponder,
>
>Diane (and no, he would never go -- because he is my pet) & Phoenix (Thanks
>Mom)
>
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