Rescue or buy?? PLEASE help?

The slaughter houses are not open yet.

Your rescue would be from a rescue group that has horses that were neglected or people had to give up due to the economy.

This would be a fine place for you to adopt a pony. The rescue would already have the pony or mini in decent shape and vaccinated and trimmed. You would do an adoption form and probably pay a fee that acts like a donation to keep the rescue group going.

This would help you plus the rescue group, allowing them to take in another horse.

Google Horse Rescues or Equine Rescues in your state and you will locate some. Or ask at the local feed store because they know of any rescue groups.

Take good care of your pony or mini and good luck on working towards a riding horse.

I think that you should rescue one. Lots of horses and ponies live in rescues and are in slaughter houses and still have the sweetest temperament. You can always ask your riding instructor and friends to help give you advice if you are terribly nervous. Also regular vet checks would be great, especially if the poor pony is terribly sick/underweight. And if you do get a 14hh horse later the pony would be a great companion for it.

Just make sure that you keep it company often and make sure it isn't lonely from being alone.

Good Luck!

Sorry, don't get the strategy

Why buy a mini or pony that is going to cost abou the same to keep as a decent 14 hand ridable horse that you and your brother can enjoy riding instead of trying to bring to health or get kicked, etc?

Minis and or Shetlands are not puppies, vet costs are the same as horsese, some can be hot little nasty buggers, can weight quite a bit as they are stocky, can eat and cost the same

Takes the same responsibility no matter what the size and I find these mini things to be much more difficult than horses (cute, but well the rules don't apply to them)

I would talk with mom and dad and present the facts.

Get you 14 h decent horse now, for you and your brother to care for

And if you have on your property you need at least a goat to keep it company

Go for the horse you can at least ride and enjoy while caring for it

Skip the mini or pony

I would say, get a rescue pony. Most shelters, nurse the animal back to health themselves, and then put it up for adoption. It is also cheaper this way. There are a lot of ponies that need homes, so you could choose a particually healthy one. In some cases, the neglect is skin damage, or hoof damage. The purchase price is, like I said,cheaper, but the overall cost of keeping would be much more high, since it would probably need farrier, dentists, and a vet. Overall, i think you should rescue, because you would do a good deed, and still get the pony.

My first horse was a rescue.

But she came directly from the people that couldn't take care of her, not from a slaughter house or anything.

She's the sweetest thing, but crazy.

I've heard about shetlands being mean.

But anyway, Minis and shetlands are not dogs.

They're still horses, they'll still be really expensive.

Personally, I'd opt for the rescue, but only because I have a soft spot for rescue horses.

First off, slaughter houses don't sell ponies. They slaughter them.

If you want to adopt (you still pay money, so you are buying) a pony from a rescue, no rescue will sell you a pony that you can't handle.

Rescues that have good reputations want to help ponies and horses.

So, they have trainers work with them.

Also, there are lots of rescues with ponies who are not neglected, not abused, and are sound, healthy and well trained.

The owners just dumped them because they could not afford them, or just outgrew them, or just didn't want them anymore.

A rescue pony isn't always neglected or abused. That's a myth.

Lots of them are just dropped off by owners who can't pay for them anymore.

So, yeah, I think you should go to a good rescue and adopt (pay) for a pony there.

Because then that money will go to rescue another pony.

You won't just be helping your local ponies, you'll be helping lots of others with the money your adoption fee brings to the reduce.

I work at a horse rescue, and rescue horses are often more sweet than other horses . It sounds counter intuitive but they really are the sweetest horses I have worked with.

Are you getting it from a rescue? Because a rescue would have rehabilitated the horse before selling it to you. They would have healed him and cared for him before ever putting him up for sale.

Just make sure to ask the rescue if the horse/pony your getting is still sick or if he or she still requires medical attention. Most rescues would have rehabilitated them already, but there will always be those rescues who don't.

I know that horse slaughter houses have been in operation in Australia for quite a long time now, and if you do not have any intention of riding this animal get one from the doggers.

deff rescue if you arent riding.

why buy a perfectly healthy horse that could be ridden? I have helped people adopt horses and worked in countless adoption centers. We always have ponys who cant be ridden but are angels. nursing them to health is no problem since you can have vet checks. you can ask him/her for advice.

There are some self sustaining rescue communities contained in the MidWest that attend the doggy mill auctions to purchase the dogs. they imagine they are "rescuing them". There *could* be some advantage to this because the dogs contained in the auctions oftentimes finally end up in different doggy generators, although the crew continues to be giving the PM money that receives rolled into the PM agency. i do no longer help this. precisely because this is giving PM's one extra thanks to get money from those undesirable breeder dogs. so some distance as no longer euthanizing them, looks a PM would extremely provide the dogs up for loose than pay to kill them. till this is in simple terms the fee of a bullet or a knife to the throat. no longer confident if so what my recommendations are. One is to save the dogs, yet the different is to no longer placed money of their wallet.