Posted by on Mar 16, 2009 in General News, Welfare | 1 comment
We are probably all familiar with the ancient blood ‘sport’ of Bullfighting throughout Spain and Portugal. But are you aware that France is still hosting these barbaric spectacles in 11 different departments across Southern France?
Whilst the often tragic end to the bull is apparent, what is also extremely concerning to us who have a love of horses, is the countless injuries and...
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At the end of January we were alerted to a horse in dept 24 which was severely malnourished looking. The relevant authorities were immediately alerted and worked very quickly in locating an owner. It appeared that the horse was very old (thirties) and could not eat properly due to missing teeth and an abscess on the side of her face.
Yesterday, sadly the horse was spotted covered up under a...
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Last week ERF were alerted to a horse that had been found roaming around a field and had been taken to the safety of an local family’s paddock whilst a owner was sought. ERF went out and took photos of the horse and treated some minor health problems that were apparent. We advised that the Gendarmes and Maire should be informed, the people had already enquired within the local community...
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Last September we had a report of a pony having extremely overgrown hooves. The pony’s condition apart from the hooves was very good. After contacting the local Maire of the commune, we found out who owned the pony and approached the owner to see if we could help. Not all owners are approachable, but in this case we were able to offer some advice and contact details of a local farrier...
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Last year we were alerted to the case of a Shetland in dept. 17 that had severely overgrown feet.
As the Maire had already been contacted we spoke to the SPA who contacted a more local organisation to take the case on. Unfortunately we now know no action was taken, and when the original person who reported it told us this we immediately started communications with the DDSV to get something done....
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Posted by on Jan 7, 2009 in Donkeys, Horses, Welfare | 4 comments
Temperatures throughout France and the UK this week have hit the lowest this winter, but is your horse feeling the cold too?
With temperatures plummeting down to as low as -10 at night and barely past freezing in the day, you may be wondering whether your equine friend needs rugging..more rugs adding.. stabling..or bringing into the house (only joking folks!).
An age old technique is to...
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