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Indiana Robinson robinson46176 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 11:04:49 PST 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> wrote:
> A friend of mine is an NJ state veterinarian, and she said that the
> economic situation is taking a real toll on the horses in the state. You
> can usually take an unwanted dog or cat to an "animal rescue" place, but
> there are very few places you can take a horse that you can't afford to
> feed. She is seeing more and more starved and sick horses every week as
> the yuppies are losing their jobs in big corporations. She choked up
> just telling me about it.
>
> Mike
>
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There is a 12,000 acre state park (Brown County) about 45 miles south
west of me that has a huge amount of horseback riding. I read and
later found verification that the gate attendants at the horse camp
entry are under instructions to keep track of how many horses are in
each trailer when they enter and to be sure that same trailer leaves
with the same number of horses. Quite a few were being taken in and
released. They would eventually find their way to the saddle barns and
the numbers were climbing rapidly. One of the rescue folks said that
it was also becoming a problem at some Kentucky state parks. My
youngest daughter lives right on the edge of the Cherokee National
Forest in southeast TN and she says people are taking horses, dogs and
cats etc. to the national forest and dumping them constantly now.
My old ag book in grade school in the middle 1950s was far enough out
of date that a McCormick 10-20 on steel was pictured as an example of
a modern farm tractor. In that book it discussed how there would
always be a place on even the largest farm for work horses since there
were so many jobs that a tractor couldn't do or that a horse could do
better.   :-)
The horses being able to replace themselves and able to function
without off farm inputs (fuel) were two of the reasons given.
Funny how I can remember that but don't have a clue what Diana said I
need to get done today just before she left for her weekly visit with
her mom at the nursing home over in the next county east.   :-)



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Francis Robinson
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