Michelle's plea - Operation Esther - so called after a little donkey who was born in Horse Trust's stables out of one of the rescued donkeys - is an appeal to all who care...
"Find Horse Transport" company kindly donated a website (http://www.operationesther.com/) which assists in centralising all the ideas and bring together people who want to help the Amersham horses.
"Michelle placed a plea on the forum asking for everyone to give up one luxury..
If they smoked, give up that packet of cigarettes and send the money to a charity dealing with the horses, the price of a packet of cigarettes would pay for a bag of chaff or a bale of hay.
If they sat down in the evening with a bottle of wine, forfeit that and donate the money!!!
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What a cool idea. Or they could just give up smoking altogether and donate the money for a month. Just think how much extra money they'd have and how much longer they'd live! Do it for the horses! :-)
Geez, what is it with rescues? (not the organizations, the poor critters) There seem to be so darn many of them right now.
I am involved with a couple of rescue cases here and it looks that more are getting ready to happen. I'm beginning to wonder if it's the moon or what that's upped the numbers this year.
Here they are blaming it on the closing of the slaughter houses but you are on a different continent. Seems to me they're happening everywhere. It is so sad.
It's a very specific case this one here - over 100 horses on ONE farm in very, very bad condition; many had to be PTS on site upon the rescue :(
It really made the whole equestrian community integrate and offer help. People are loading their lorries with rugs, hay, food, anything and drive down to the charities which are now taking care of the horses.
I know what you mean though, I am shocked at the state of those horses but more so as they should really have been rescued much earlier...before they started dying from starvation and dehydration...!!!
All the national papers wrote something about it which gives you a bit of an impression of what a shocking situation it was...
All the best to your poor rescued fellows. It is very sad indeed.
Its a fantastic job they are doing however it was actually a company called findhorsetransport.org (a group of horse transport companies) who donated and actually built the site to back up the cause. I believe it is getting thousands of hits a day.
Thank you for pointing that out! I edited the post accordingly! :)
Here the problem is the law isn't specific enough and the sheriffs don't know what they are looking at. There is a move underway to make some changes in the laws. I hope that is successful.
Also they are having some classes to teach the sheriffs what they are looking at. How to feel through the coat for condition and how to tell an unhealthy long coast from a healthy one.
The problem there is that it's going to take more than one class to really know what they are looking at. I know many horse owners who wouldn't be able to tell by looking at an unhealthy coat and they're great owners, just have no experience with sick and under nourished horses.
It'll just take one bad call the other way and it'll set all change back on its ear. I would hate to see that happen as well.
Wow!!!! I have only just found this after discussing life changing achievements!!! (Yes I am Michelle) Thank you for sharing this, it only seems like yesterday!!! Take a look at a video on Youtube called What happened to the Amersham Horses.... by World Horse Welfare..... its lovely to see that many have gone onto fulfilling happy lives.....
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