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Euthanizing Healthy Horses - What do you think?

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  • #181
    You know, I think Wikipedia might be an even better cut and paste choice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_care
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    • #182
      This is what we need in the USA

      Equine Industry Welfare Guidelines Compendium

      WHAT IS THE COMPENDIUM?

      The Equine Industry Welfare Guidelines Compendium is the first document of its kind to set out the minimum standards of care required to appropriately look after a horse.

      Since its initial publication in 2002, 30,000 paper copies have been issued across the industry and over 7,000 have been downloaded from the internet.

      The Compendium does not form a statutory code but is agreed by the industry to be the recommended best practice and where relevant legislation is applicable, it is highlighted in shaded boxes.

      The Compendium has assisted many groups of people including:

      • prospective horse owners • horse owners / keepers

      • veterinary surgeons • police officers

      • welfare inspectors • trading standards inspectors

      in achieving high standards of horse care, husbandry and welfare.



      The Compendium has been successfully used in Court as a legal referral document to aid those who are prosecuting people for neglect or cruelty to the horse by clearly identifying the industry agreed best practice.
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      • #183
        I see this issue going back and forth on several boards, and see no easy or even really good solutions to many of the horses ending up in the pipeline over the next 5 to 7 years. What I do see is a constant reflexive jumping back to the vets to euthanize the horse. Just an opinion, but I would imagine that the vets themselves will end up figuring out just who will and who won't be put down, based on the simple inner need to protect themselves from either converting a larger portion of their practices over from horse fixing to horse killing (becuase any way you label it to look nice, that's what it is), or from ending up shattered from putting down horse after horse after horse after horse, which is what this will be for several years if the bill ever gets passed.
        On the one hand, I would love to see the rescues be licensed and strictly regulated to euthanize the horses they can't help or keep, because once you're the guy doing the euthanasia, killing the horse is another story. Maybe everyone wouldn't be so fast to try bringing in the vet if they had to do a few of these themselves. On the other, I'm not sure I would want them anywhere near these drugs. It is this 'what do you do with them' question for the next several years that concerns me. I imagine the fairgrounds and empty racetracks are going to end up with more dumped and dead horses in their stalls than ever before. Just an opinion.
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        • #184
          Chief2 -- good points. What concerns me is the responsibility put on rescues. These are volunteer orgs, which means a lot of the people won't be able to handle doing this any more than John Q Public. Not to mention that the policies are frequently driven by the volunteers, and really, a fair number of them will not want to be "realistic" when it comes to euthanizing animals. They got into rescue to "save animals," and their idea of that does not include cleaning up after owners by doing the euthanasia (not to mention the cost--eeek!). I can totally understand vets not wanting to be the one, but I think volunteers will be even less likely, or able, to take on this job.

          It could cost the rescue system a lot of volunteers, which in turn, would make it unable to function efficiently, just at a time when the burden would be at an all-time high.

          No easy answers, that's for sure....
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          • #185
            Can't have it both ways. Some are going to be chosen to live, others to die. The means of choosing is simply fgoing to be redirected into the private sector.Volunteers or otherwise, these rescues, shelters, etc are going to have to retool to handle what's coming down the pike for the next 5-7 years. The bottom of the horse industry without the slaughter issue is already beginning to slide out. If the net isn't in place before the bill goes through, there are going to be a lot of abandoned and dumped horses, with or without laws designed to prevent it. (another reason some would not want to microchip their stock!)
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            • #186
              Well, then I hope everyone speaking out now across the country is willing to put their time in, because turnover is going to be high, I fear. That kind of work is really, really hard to do and very few people can hold up to it. I know I couldn't. Occasionally, "as needed?" Sure. But monthly, weekly, for who knows how long? Ouch.
              "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." -Don Marquis
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