- Joined
- Mar 30, 2013
Those horses might just be old. Sometimes people move their horses to a proper retirement farm (people will sometimes be willing to take on a spare horse or two for friends, like my family does).
But I've heard through the grapevine that sometimes people will move their old horses in the hopes that the horse dies on someone else's land, therefore someone else's problem. We've had that happen, but on accident. Boarding someone's half a dozen horses, including a beloved 30-something horse who after only a day passed away just from the sheer stress. We had to do the burial. My dad was suspicious but seeing as the owners were very apologetic and we've continued to do business with them, I'm sure it was just one of those small tragedies.
But there are very shrewd people out there that take advantage of charity, and we know that other alpaca farms are desperate to find a place for the expensive animals, so to see a malnourished horse show up at the Tranch makes me suspicious. Which means hopefully we'll get some comedy out of it because a properly-ran farm can take care of all sorts of animals, and has the equipment (and fortitude!) to bury an animal.
The Tranchers seem to be more the type to let the coyotes do all the work while pretending not the smell the horse rot.
But I've heard through the grapevine that sometimes people will move their old horses in the hopes that the horse dies on someone else's land, therefore someone else's problem. We've had that happen, but on accident. Boarding someone's half a dozen horses, including a beloved 30-something horse who after only a day passed away just from the sheer stress. We had to do the burial. My dad was suspicious but seeing as the owners were very apologetic and we've continued to do business with them, I'm sure it was just one of those small tragedies.
But there are very shrewd people out there that take advantage of charity, and we know that other alpaca farms are desperate to find a place for the expensive animals, so to see a malnourished horse show up at the Tranch makes me suspicious. Which means hopefully we'll get some comedy out of it because a properly-ran farm can take care of all sorts of animals, and has the equipment (and fortitude!) to bury an animal.
The Tranchers seem to be more the type to let the coyotes do all the work while pretending not the smell the horse rot.