Yay! I'm finally part of the club...I got my first hate mail today. Ahh, Yahoo Answers, you make my life complete, filling it hate and ignorance.
Although I encounter that in real life too. Some guy turned his horses out on the state land next to our place and left them in 95 degree heat for two days without water. Awesome. I hauled them water and called the sherriff but because I live in the middle of nowhere, there isn't much in the way of animal rights/animal control, so no one has done anything. This is the FOURTH time I've report someone for horse cruelty in the past 3 years.
So to make this an official question, does anyone else find themselves doing this too? Reporting their neighbors for neglect? Normally I don't stick my nose in other people's business but when their horses are trying to push down the fence to get to my water, or when a 5 month old dies of starvation on the property line, I don't really have a choice...
I'm HOPING that I find this neglect is not so common in everyone else's neighborhood.
By the way Jesse M, I hope you're having a WONDERFUL day.
2008-07-31T17:42:40Z
Oh no Hudson, this wasn't an issue of a difference of opinions. It was an issue of someone writing me a very immature email calling me a bunch of expletives. (They were mad that I killed a rattlesnake in my barn). I could paste it on here but it was obviously written by someone who couldn't come up with an intelligent argument so they just cussed me out. It made me laugh.
2008-07-31T17:47:10Z
YES! I am looking forward to the pervert emails. It's gonna be so great. I COULD block my email but then I wouldn't get get good emails either...or get a good laugh at the others.
Redial, you're hilarious.
Galloppal...you got an avatar! I always assumed you were a male! Sorry! You know what they say happens when you assume...
I'm quite glad to hear there isn't as much neglect in the rest of the world. Wyoming is just a little backwards sometime. I think it's so easy and cheap for people to have horses here that everyone and their brother gets one, even though they shouldn't, and use it as a status symbol :(
The Captain2008-07-31T18:14:17Z
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Welcome to the club. I get hate mail quite a bit. Apparently it's not nice to tell someone their grade horse with it's ewe neck, chronic founder and duck feet isn't worth the $10,000 they were hoping he would be. In my opinion, if you're getting hate mail then you're obviously doing something right on here! Some people just get bent out of shape, cause the truth does hurt. I had to quit posting my ranch website because certain people were going to it, getting my phone number and giving me some nice calls. Gotta say that I miss those 2 am hang ups and voice mails telling me that my horses are all going to colic and die. Made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
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I have gotten hate mail on Yahoo answers, but not from the horse section. I have blocked some from the political spectrum. Any emails I have gotten from the horse section have always been welcome. That's one reason I mostly only answer in the horses section. As far as neglect, I live in South Dakota and I am the only one with horses around me anymore. I don't think it is a status symbol here, maybe in a cowboy state like Wyoming it is. It isn't always starving horses that break out. The farmers around me grow alfalfa and won't fence their property. If my horses can break out and get to the alfalfa they will even though they have plenty of grass. I know that neglect happens and I don't know how people can let their animals starve.
LOL! Well welcome to the club there Juliane!! It was only just a matter of time before they got you too. I just got hate mail today from someone I've never even heard of before and all it said is "You suck."... They really made themselves sound intelligent, didn't they? LOL.... All I can do when I get hate mail is laugh at how damn ignorant they make themselves look.... And then share it with my friends on here so they can have a good laugh too!! Haha
Ah yes, the pervert e-mails.... hey Eqquus and Redial, what about that foursome?? LOL LOL!!
As for the neglect issue... I've called on one acount of neglect about 5 years ago. Luckily in my neck of the woods, it's not something you see on a regular basis, but ya know, if the economy continues to plumit the way it has I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a 'regular' thing down here....It is truly sad.....
**Edit** Hey E! And a big hello to everyone else too!! :-)
you have definately done the RIGHT thing. Its not a case of sticking your nose in other peoples business you are looking out for the welfare of these beautifal animals that so many others neglect. i would do and have done the same in the past. Though i would take photos of the animals and record your findings and if the owners dont come near the property i would call the rspca or equine rescue organisation in your area. dont try to take the matter into your own hands as people that do this sort of thing to their animals usually have the same disregaurd for other peoples welfare and you could end up with some very cranky and violent encounters. keep giving them water and continue contacting the rspca. If you can and have the resourses next time you see the owners tell them that u can organise to get them to another home. some people dont like this however and out of sheer ignorence and pride you might get a mouthful. if the case of neglect is severe do all you can without getting yourself into a dangerous confrontation with the owners and try your best to get those anmals out of there! i have been in the same situation many times as i am part of a foster care group for horses that have been neglected. and because of this i can get help pretty fast and in some cases with the right contacts and your records and photos u can actually my law prevent these people from owning animals. please keep onto the sherrif and please call your local rspca or ERA.!!