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  • #181
    WOW. Even with the queasy feeling I had after reading your initial description of what happened, I couldn't have imagined this turn of events!

    Good luck, and GET THAT &^%#!

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    • #182
      i hope this works out for you! that woman should be shot.

      best of luck!

      Kristine ~ owned by two silly, silly tb's

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      • #183
        Monday morning update, please.

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          #184
          Good morning-have a few minutes before my first class. I was in contact with the state investigator Sunday, sending him the picture he needs to ID my boy. He will try to locate him today (yeah!) in either Lynden or in BC. I am very "out of the info loop", since it is an official investigation, he doesn't give me all the info.

          I got another email, from the "friend" of the lady. She says she hasn't heard from her either, and can't help me much. She says she saw a dead horse and it was the color of the one that was "staying there". Now, as we all know, one brown horse looks like another to the unhorsey among us, so I am not putting much stock in this statement. I will trust the two very experienced veterinarions who ID my guy as coming into their clinic to get his coggins and health certificate done--on the same day as he was supposed to have died.

          I'll update you all as I find out new info. On a personal note, we sign the papers on our new farm today and my 3 year old filly went to her first hunter schooling show this weekend and was wonderful! (trot a pole was ho-hum for her--no spookies at the pumpkins or the people in the stands!)

          You can send a kid to school, but you can't make 'em learn!
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          • #185
            I hadn't realized before I read this topic how many horses were stolen or sold illegally. Just out of curiosity, will equine vets microchip horses? My dogs & cat are.
            You mentioned the horse was a tb, does he have a lip tattoo?
            Oni

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            • #186
              Yes, you can have your horses microchiped. In my area it runs about $25 per head. It would definitely cut down on the all bays look alike. I don't think the slaughterhouse here scans for MC but I could be wrong.

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              • #187
                calvin... still jingling for a safe return of your boy! Hoping for a VERY happy ending to this for you!

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                • #188
                  Calvin-still jingling for you.
                  On the topic of microchips-they can be removed very easily as happens often with stolen dogs. Tattoos are harder it get rid of.

                  http://www.positivestepfarm.com
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                  • #189
                    But I have heard that the problem with microchipping at least for small animals is that there are different brands or types so that if you have a type A chip implaneted and the vet that finds your lost pet scans him with a type B scanner it won't read the chip.

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                    • #190
                      Calvin - I too have been following this thread. I sure hope you get your horse back and soon! Keep us updated please. - Libby

                      There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." - DAVE BARRY
                      Libby

                      There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". - Dave Barry

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                      • #191
                        I had my cat chipped at the pound in California and the pound here in MD uses the same brand (Avid). I think my vet does too.
                        Oni

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                        • #192
                          Shiaway - any scanner should pick up any chip. it does not reveal any info though, just a number. You have to call the company (and often pay) to retrieve any information.

                          Why is it that when we ask for the time, we point to our wrist...but when we ask for the washroom we dont point to our butt?

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                          • #193
                            I am a dyed in the wool BC girl, so here is what I can tell you about that area.

                            If he is around the Lynden area, from what I remember, there are a ton of acreages around there and it is only about 20 minutes to the Canadian border.

                            Now, if he has crossed into BC, (Vancouver, Surrey, Langley, Millarville, Abbotsford, Maple Ridge, Coquitlam), he is going to literally be a needle in a haystack. There are probably 200-300 boarding stables, and hundreds of private acreages.

                            Is there any way you can narrow it down?

                            If he went to BC, my guess would be Langley, which has the highest concentration of barns and private acreages.

                            If you can narrow it down, I might be able to get you a listing of feed stores. I am pretty sure I have the BC Horse Council Directory, which lists trainers, barns, vets etc...would be happy to send it to you.

                            Dragons is so stupid!
                            Proud Rubenesquestrian!

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                            • #194
                              Amy said...
                              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I don't think the slaughterhouse here scans for MC but I could be wrong.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                              I don't think they do either but have always wondered why a grassroots effort could not convince them to. It would certainly be good PR for them!!

                              I am imagining something like a non-profit that buys the few remaining slaughter houses the right readers. Coordinate this with a national database where people can "register" their horses with their microchip IDs.

                              I am thinking it would have to work something like this.....

                              1. Breeders and/or owners register their horse's microchip ID in the database. They are signing up to be the "rescue" owner of the horse.
                              2. Unfortunate horse ends up at the packers somehow. Packers scan him, find the chip, and refer to the database.
                              3. "Rescue" owner is contacted.
                              4. "Rescue" owner has to pay the packers for the horse (they are business men after all) and pick up the horse. Packers get a nice daily board fee to separate the horse and feed it well.

                              As a breeder, I would not hesitate to "rescue" one of my babies even if it ended up costing me several thousand dollars. I know many folks who feel the same - at least it gives our horses a safety net.

                              Thoughts?

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                              • #195
                                I'm still jingling for you too and I hope that the next report will be the -he's on his way home- report.

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                                • #196
                                  Wow, I hope you find him! I would be heart broken!!

                                  I free leased a horse last year. The owners asked nothing, I could have sold him with no problem (didn't even cross my mind though ) I wonder if they knew the risk they were taking, they didn't know me from Adam!

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                                  • #197
                                    Does anyone else think it sounds funny that the "friend" doesn't know where she is and saw a "brown" horse dead in the field. Maybe I'm overly suspicious but it sounds like maybe she DOES know where she's located. I certainly wouldn't trust her...sounds like she's helping to cover her tracks and make the dead horse story sound more believable.

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                                    • #198
                                      This whole saga is unbelieveable to me.

                                      "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of his devotion."
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                                      [i]\"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be wo

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                                      • #199
                                        Bump

                                        I have been following the story from the beginning as well. Hope we hear good news soon!
                                        Grief is the price we pay for love- Gretchen Jackson

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                                        • #200
                                          I too have been following your story from the beginning and am happy to hear you're getting *somewhere*.

                                          I'm hoping for a happy resolution as well!
                                          I'm not one to say I toadaso. But I toadaso. - Ricky

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