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I have to agree with Una on this—horse
welfare beyond mission readiness doesn’t belong here on the MSAR list. We are faced today with an economy that
won’t restart, confidence in the future as low as it has ever been and an
unwillingness to spend government or private funds to get it started. In the horse
business, and it is a business, this has resulted in oversupply for years,
depressed prices, and no place to recoup investment. We shut down slaughter, which put about 100 000
unwanted horses into French stomachs, we shut down the {MU operations which
brought forth a flood of sport horses. If you can make a commitment for 20 years
to care for and support a horse, buy one, don’t go to a rescue and adopt
one, buy it outright, accept the responsibility of ownership. Horse
rescues and dog rescues should be outlawed as charities. They are nothing
more than rental agencies for animals. They have to make a profit on each
transaction to sustain their administrators, real estate, and paid care staff.
There are plenty of “used horse dealers” out there without dealing
with a “rescue”. Irv Lichtenstein From: msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Karen Nesbitt |
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