Re: SEPT. 2009 ISSUE: THE CASE AGAINST EQUINE SLAUGHTER

indymom — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Hello, tlrobertshsnt ~ I couldn't agree with you more. You are 100% on the mark, as was the editorial. If we'd had the guts to just take slaughter completely off the table long ago, I'm sure we would have come up with better solutions by now because we would have had no choice. As long as people are willing to consider slaughter a viable solution to "unwanted" horses, it will always be with us. At least until the EU stops accepting our contaminated horses for comsumption by their countrymen.

I come from Texas, but have lived in Indiana since 1992. I was fighting the slaughter issue there. At that time, horses were being stolen right out of their stalls to be taken accross the state line, auctioned to killer buyers, then brought back to Bel-Tex or Dallas Crown for slaughter. A horse was stolen out of the stall next to mine - my horse had a freeze brand and my friend's did not. Several other horses were taken as well, and though we tried and tried, we never recovered any of them.

Sounds as if you a doing a wonderful job down there. Thank you so much for all that you are doing.

Suzanne Moore

SEPT. 2009 ISSUE: THE CASE AGAINST EQUINE SLAUGHTER

tlrobertshsnt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Good morning sir. I am really hoping that this is a good email address for you and that it reaches you. I am the lead humane investigator for the Humane Society of North Texas. I am sure you will receive a wonderful response to your article in the September issue of EQUUS, and I wanted to take the time to personally thank you for such a well written look into this very controversial issue in Texas. I was an animal control officer in Indiana for about 6 years before moving to Texas almost 3 years ago, and the issues of horse cruelty and neglect were no where near the numbers that are right here in horse country.

Our organization has taken in over 500 horses in the past two years, and most people's opinion regarding this is due to the loss of slaughter houses. I, being open minded on so many issues, am not of the same accord regarding this issue. We are still having to seize animals for neglect, as opposed to the thousands of stray cats and dogs that are brought in each year because of unwanted litters, and lack of spay/neuter for these animals. We are not seeing loose horses roam the neighborhoods, and people are not willing to give away their horses 'for free' to families that are willing to care for them.

I strongly agree that the reason we are seeing so many horses die of neglect and starvation, is not because people have no other solution due to slaughterhouses closing, we are seeing them because the people that will break the law and will treat animals cruelly not matter what, have no where to HIDE these animals that they were starving. I get into many heated discussions with law enforcement regarding this situation....I never win.

Your article was truly an inspiration to me and I am so grateful that there are so many other people out there with the same beliefs that I share. We need another solution.

We spend a lot of time educating people, taking feed to them when they are in a bind and we euthanize for free, when the owners have no other option. I have been working on a program through our organization that will hopefully make a difference in our community. Thank you for your words and I hope it reaches out to so many other people that initially thought that slaughter was the answer to this problem of abuse and neglect.

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Re: SEPT. 2009 ISSUE: THE CASE AGAINST EQUINE SLAUGHTER

SEPT. 2009 ISSUE: THE CASE AGAINST EQUINE SLAUGHTER