Have any readers here been to fugly recently?
"Fugly" is fuglyhorseoftheday.com It is another horse related blog-much larger than mine by orders of magnitude :) I have been reading it for months now, at least a year or better. As I mentioned before, there have been several horse auction reports recently posted, and the numbers are pretty scary.
Then today's entry really gave me pause....not only is the lead entry about a person with *over* 100 hundred head (Over one hundred!!!) in very bad shape, there was in the comments section a blurb about another auction, quoted here:
"Local midwest sale barn on Friday - no bids on many horses....2 yr olds started under saddle with $20 bids.
The guy running the sale said at a different sale barn, a couple of hours from here had MANY go through without bids. After the sale was over, and everyone was gone - approx. 80 horses stood on the property...the owners just abandoned them. Many were euthanized I guess. It's getting scary out there. If this is happening now, when there is still pasture out there, I can't imagine what's going to happen when the pasture is gone."
Another poster linked a CL ad in Kansas, 40 to 45 head of "reining bred" horses, make an offer.
The growing numbers of these abandonments, the increasing numbers of horses being abandoned (or worse, like with tbfriends.com where Joe reports the going price of horses from the kill buyers at forty cents per pound) just scares me pretty bad. I know that the majority of these poor horses are either young and unstarted, or older with issues-but still, it should give us all pause. Some of these auctions are held weekly, some once or twice a month-but it's happening all over the L48.
Can this happen here in Alaska? Has it happened? I have heard about horses being dropped at AC before, this year in fact-but I haven't heard anything recently. If it's that bad down south, where there *are* auctions, where there is pasture for a good long time, where hay can be had for a pittance compared to Alaska, where there are many active, legitmate rescues, law enforcement who can and will act with the aid of much better statutes.....what's the future going to be like here, when the economic slow down really reaches us?
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I did hear about a older horse that has been seen wondering around in the Butte area. The person that told me about it seems to think he was dumped to free range since no one can locate a owner.
Almost all of my horse friends have had offers of free horses, nice ones, but had to turn them down....hay is to short and so it $$.
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