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It is sad that I think this is a good idea.
http://www.norcalequinerescue.com/clinics.php
Things are bad everywhere, and at least once a week I hear another account of horses being abandoned on properties or or boarders disappearing and abandoning horses to the farm. The Enumclaw auction is regularly selling horses for less than $100 and the kill buyers are [comparatively] making bank with their double decker trailers full and bound for Mexico.
"Euthanasia means "good death" peaceful and calm. Sadly to say there are hundreds of horses suffering a horrible death in slaughter houses every day. Every 5 minutes an American horse is slaughtered. In Northern California around 400 horses are shipped out to slaughter every month. The economy is literally killing horses in droves. People are having a very hard time feeding their horses with the high price of hay and feed. We get calls almost on a daily basis, "I can't afford to care for my horse, what do I do?" We try our best to help out, but with these hard times it is impossible to take in every horse we get a call about. What happens to those horses? Neglect? Abandonment? Abuse? Starvation? Slaughter?
It is hard times for most people but the killer buyers are having a economic boom.
It used to be that killer buyers would be happy with any horse they could get their hands on, as long as it was not too skinny. Now the killers are able to pick and chose what horses will make them more money from the meat on their bones. Too thin, let it go, they like the fat ones.
Hundreds of horses are being sent to auctions as a last resort after their owner try to give them away. For example, let's say there is a horse named Old Nelly. She was the family's long time pet, all the kids had learn to ride on her, sadly now they no longer have any money to feed her. The family starting looking for options for Old Nelly. First they place an add to try and sell her, that does not work. Then they call a rescue with high hopes that they will take Old Nelly in, they hear the words "I'm so sorry, we get calls like this all the time and we do not have any room for Old Nelly, Sorry." They call rescue after rescue and get the same response. After a long take they call a vet to find out about putting Old Nelly time sleep, the vet says "That is going to cost about $250-$500" sadly they say "Ok thank you". They do not have the extra money, they might be losing their home soon and cannot spare $250-$500. Then they call an auction, "How much does it cost sell a horse at our auction?" "That will be $75.00, tell me about your horse." "Well, she is sweet, loves kids, about 19 years old, she does have some lameness...." "Is she fat or skinny?" "Oh we have taken really good care of her, she is in good condition." "Good, sound like she would sell for more then $75.00, bring her to the next auction." They get off the phone relieved that they have somewhere to take Old Nelly. Then someone tells them about horse slaughter and that killer buyers go to auctions. The day of the auction they load up Old Nelly in the trailer, heart sick about the killer buyers and hope that someone else will buy her. They say good-bye to Old Nelly and drive away. Sadly Old Nelly was bought by a killer buyer and a few brutal days later Old Nelly was killed in a Mexican slaughter house. There are hundreds of horses just like Old Nelly who are brutally killed because the owners felt they had no other way out.
All this brutal killing of horses must stop!
We have been thinking long and hard about this, in order to save horses like Old Nelly we have decided to have our first ever euthanasia clinic. This may be the first euthanasia clinic in California for horses, perhaps even the United States.
At the clinic people can bring their horses to our vet office and have the horses humanely euthanized for only $25.00 on the day of the Clinic. With your help we would be covering all the additional cost of Euthanasia. The only way we can make this happen is if you pledge to help save horses from a brutal death in a slaughter house.
It takes $100 in donations to provide this service per horse. We are currently accepting clinic pledges for our first euthanasia clinic tentatively planned for December 17th.
The next thing I would like to see is $25 gelding procedures, but that would leave a lot of trust in the hands of possibly ignorant people to care for the newly gelded horses in order to prevent infection.
Also, vote for your favorite shelter: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3 I suggest SAFE, but a vote for your preferred shelter is really a win for all rescues. The shelters receiving the most votes have a chance to win cash grants that will ease the financial burden of operating the rescue. True animal rescues are limited by their ability to fund the operation. A rescue that cannot afford to feed, house or care for the animals properly but continues to accept animals is a hoarding situation and does not offer a better situation for the animals.
Grand Prize: One $25,000 grant
Runner Up: One $10,000 grant
State Winners*: Fifty-four $1,000 state grants
Weekly Winners**: Eleven $1,000 weekly grants
BTW: I know of a nice TB Gelding - bay, big bodied 16.1 h hopeful/low jumper or eq horse for sale who was abandoned to a farm. Needs some maintenance, but is packing around kids now with none. $5k (to cover expenses). Would make a nice project horse to flip. UTD on all vet/farrier care and the BO would rather he sit in one of her stalls than go to a bad situation. Good home is a must. She has already turned down less than excellent homes for him.
http://www.norcalequinerescue.com/clinics.php
Things are bad everywhere, and at least once a week I hear another account of horses being abandoned on properties or or boarders disappearing and abandoning horses to the farm. The Enumclaw auction is regularly selling horses for less than $100 and the kill buyers are [comparatively] making bank with their double decker trailers full and bound for Mexico.
"Euthanasia means "good death" peaceful and calm. Sadly to say there are hundreds of horses suffering a horrible death in slaughter houses every day. Every 5 minutes an American horse is slaughtered. In Northern California around 400 horses are shipped out to slaughter every month. The economy is literally killing horses in droves. People are having a very hard time feeding their horses with the high price of hay and feed. We get calls almost on a daily basis, "I can't afford to care for my horse, what do I do?" We try our best to help out, but with these hard times it is impossible to take in every horse we get a call about. What happens to those horses? Neglect? Abandonment? Abuse? Starvation? Slaughter?
It is hard times for most people but the killer buyers are having a economic boom.
It used to be that killer buyers would be happy with any horse they could get their hands on, as long as it was not too skinny. Now the killers are able to pick and chose what horses will make them more money from the meat on their bones. Too thin, let it go, they like the fat ones.
Hundreds of horses are being sent to auctions as a last resort after their owner try to give them away. For example, let's say there is a horse named Old Nelly. She was the family's long time pet, all the kids had learn to ride on her, sadly now they no longer have any money to feed her. The family starting looking for options for Old Nelly. First they place an add to try and sell her, that does not work. Then they call a rescue with high hopes that they will take Old Nelly in, they hear the words "I'm so sorry, we get calls like this all the time and we do not have any room for Old Nelly, Sorry." They call rescue after rescue and get the same response. After a long take they call a vet to find out about putting Old Nelly time sleep, the vet says "That is going to cost about $250-$500" sadly they say "Ok thank you". They do not have the extra money, they might be losing their home soon and cannot spare $250-$500. Then they call an auction, "How much does it cost sell a horse at our auction?" "That will be $75.00, tell me about your horse." "Well, she is sweet, loves kids, about 19 years old, she does have some lameness...." "Is she fat or skinny?" "Oh we have taken really good care of her, she is in good condition." "Good, sound like she would sell for more then $75.00, bring her to the next auction." They get off the phone relieved that they have somewhere to take Old Nelly. Then someone tells them about horse slaughter and that killer buyers go to auctions. The day of the auction they load up Old Nelly in the trailer, heart sick about the killer buyers and hope that someone else will buy her. They say good-bye to Old Nelly and drive away. Sadly Old Nelly was bought by a killer buyer and a few brutal days later Old Nelly was killed in a Mexican slaughter house. There are hundreds of horses just like Old Nelly who are brutally killed because the owners felt they had no other way out.
All this brutal killing of horses must stop!
We have been thinking long and hard about this, in order to save horses like Old Nelly we have decided to have our first ever euthanasia clinic. This may be the first euthanasia clinic in California for horses, perhaps even the United States.
At the clinic people can bring their horses to our vet office and have the horses humanely euthanized for only $25.00 on the day of the Clinic. With your help we would be covering all the additional cost of Euthanasia. The only way we can make this happen is if you pledge to help save horses from a brutal death in a slaughter house.
It takes $100 in donations to provide this service per horse. We are currently accepting clinic pledges for our first euthanasia clinic tentatively planned for December 17th.
The next thing I would like to see is $25 gelding procedures, but that would leave a lot of trust in the hands of possibly ignorant people to care for the newly gelded horses in order to prevent infection.
Also, vote for your favorite shelter: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3 I suggest SAFE, but a vote for your preferred shelter is really a win for all rescues. The shelters receiving the most votes have a chance to win cash grants that will ease the financial burden of operating the rescue. True animal rescues are limited by their ability to fund the operation. A rescue that cannot afford to feed, house or care for the animals properly but continues to accept animals is a hoarding situation and does not offer a better situation for the animals.
Grand Prize: One $25,000 grant
Runner Up: One $10,000 grant
State Winners*: Fifty-four $1,000 state grants
Weekly Winners**: Eleven $1,000 weekly grants
BTW: I know of a nice TB Gelding - bay, big bodied 16.1 h hopeful/low jumper or eq horse for sale who was abandoned to a farm. Needs some maintenance, but is packing around kids now with none. $5k (to cover expenses). Would make a nice project horse to flip. UTD on all vet/farrier care and the BO would rather he sit in one of her stalls than go to a bad situation. Good home is a must. She has already turned down less than excellent homes for him.