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Who owns the horses near Clarehall?

  • 23-02-2017 9:29pm
    #1
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭


    I've often seen horses tethered here to public grass.

    https://goo.gl/maps/uQo1ePfNFa12

    They were eating a small circle of grass around them. This was some time last year and it was a scorching summer day and I felt sorry for the horses, I was walking by them. On my way back up, I noticed they were still there.

    So I turned around and bought them a bag of apples and carrot batons and I bought a cheap bucket from Tesco and filled it with a 5-Litre bottles of drinking water to give them a drink.

    The horses seemed happy :)

    The memory of it only dawned on me when I was driving by it recently and saw the horses again. I've brought it to the attention of people before but have always been told "there's nothing we can do". :confused:

    Why can't the DSPCA check microchips and papers from the horses and prosecute whoever is treating them cruelly, it breaks my heart to see the poor creatures treated like that, tethered on such a short rope.

    Can they not be seized and given to a sanctuary or rehomed? Who owns them anyway (does anyone know)?


Comments

  • #2
    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Those are people you dingbat. Just looks like a horse because he's bent down near his mate.


  • #3
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Those are people you dingbat. Just looks like a horse because he's bent down near his mate.

    :D


  • #4
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    A few years ago my dad was alarmed to find two horses, a mam and her foal, locked into one of our fields. Actually had put a huge padlock and chain on the gate. During summer, extremely warm, no access to water.

    Called the gardai, they came out, it was quite obvious where they needed to go to find the owners. Told us they'd call into halting site in town and contact the rspca. Within 20 mins a transit van arrived out trying to argue with my dad into letting him keep the horses there, my dad said no and he had the horses taken out straight away, as he knew the gardai would have them lifted.

    So, if they've no water access it's cruelty and they have to investigate


  • #5
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    What hope have animals when humans are living the same way.


  • #6
    jameorahiely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »
    Those are people you dingbat. Just looks like a horse because he's bent down near his mate.

    horses_c_1977633.webp


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