Stupid people making horse babies
Aug 22 2007
An alert reader sent me this picture. This mare is a six year old completely blind draft cross mare whose hind fetlocks touch the ground when she walks (DSLD, anyone?). She is currently in foal for the third time. She lives as you see her, staked out in a field. Her owner thinks conformation means “how pretty they are.”
*sound of my head violently slamming against my desk*
Please pass me a 2 x 4 and a plane ticket, someone needs a beating and I certainly don’t mean the horse!
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wow. I’m speechless.
That just makes me so sad… That poor mare.
Some people are just too stupid and irresponsible to live. Disgusting.
poor mare. i bet she is lovely and kind – and shouldnt be bred in a million years…
FHOTD,
I need a plane ticket too. I have my own 2×4. I just hate it when people are so stupid as to make me want to to them bodily injury.
I’ll sign on to help with the beating.
OMG. Well, she’s totally defenseless against any predators, being blind AND staked out in what looks like wild open country. What a sad scenario. And to be in foal with the hind suspensories like that. How cruel.
…this means she has been bred since she was 3. It’s hard to tell what part of the country she is in but I hope she has shelter. How does it work when her foal is on the ground – doesn’t it get tangeled up and her not being able to see what’s wrong? I bet she’s stepped on her babies by accident too……AGH ! Horrible life for this girl.
I’ll bring a 2×4 with a nail in it! WTF is wrong with people!
Where is she located? Do you have any idea. Perhaps some of the local people could form a lynch mob for the owner. I’ll find a rope. The one tying the mare might do nicely.
When the foal is born, is it staked out too? Or is it just running loose? I am trying to keep my brain from falling apart on this one.
I advised the person who sent this to me to contact the authorities. This HAS to be illegal, I don’t care what the laws are where you’re at, this isn’t a minimal standard of care. I will follow up as best I can and let you know if any progress is made.
People suck…
I agree FHOD. I would think the local animal control or humane society would want to confiscate her. Poor mare. A beating is too good for some people.
Hello all, I’m new, well I’ve been lurking for some time. LUV this Blog….
I’m curious, as to where this mare is, I’d be willing to offer her a home in which she would never be bred again…..
I know in my county (Eastern Washington state), this would illegal and the horse would confiscated. Not having shelter and free range access to fresh water is illegal.
This makes me so mad…That poor girl. I don’t understand humans who think this is okay.. What if they were tied up and couldn’t move?
I would like to take the stake that poor mare is tied to and put it somewhere else…somewhere where that owner wouldn’t be able to sit down for a loooong time!
(replaced previous comment because I can’t spell!)
When I saw her, in what appears to be a large open field, I had the predator thought also …She is BLIND and STAKED out for GOD SAKES! What the hell they going to do when she foals? HFB! If that foal wanders away from her, She is going to be a neurotic mess, looks like there is a possibility of a cougar getting an easy meal
That is totally fucking unreal.
The mare is blind, not retarded–there is no need to stake her to the ground. Several different people I’ve spoken with have had blind horses before and the horses are fine out in the pasture if they have a pasture buddy. Hell, even if they don’t have a pasture mate, blind horses usually get acclimated to their surroundings fairly quickly. I can’t believe it–this is the equivalent of chaining your dog to the tree for its entire life.
I hope the person who owns this mare is arrested. Please keep us updated, FHOTD.
P.S. Some people had the fine suggestion of beating the owner with a 2×4 with a nail in it… hell, I’m tempted to just find a nail gun and shoot the bastard’s eyes out.
Where is she? I imagine the foal is just left to tangle in her line. Lovely.
And stake him/her out in a field without shelter or protection from predators…..
(my earlier comment was responding to gemtwyst’s remark….)
Oh the horror of it. I can’t stand it. WTF is wrong with people. If I knew where she is I’d confiscate her myself in the middle of the night. Friggin asswipes.
Is it possible she’s just staked out to graze and is put up at night or something? Could it be? Please tell me it’s so. Perhaps fantasies of torture and murder will leave my head. And even if by some small chance that is the case, it still doesn’t excuse the breeding. Nope, sorry the asswipes still have to die or at least suffer horribly.
I don’t want to name the location, I guaranteed the sender of the photo and info anonymity.
I will follow up, however. Suffice it to say I have excellent contacts in the area where she is and I’m going to do my best to see that this is reported.
Oh, that poor mare. Some people make me sick, honestly.
If her hind fetlocks touch the ground, I’m betting that she can’t walk comfortably. Generally euthanasia is the humane way to go. But of course, humane would also include not breeding her year after year.
THANK YOU fhd. for the truth and for the fight you put up for the helpless.
For the love of Pete, can’t someone just go and “take” her out of the field and into the night? If I knew where she was, I’d be the first to volunteer to “take” her and give her a good home … or put her down if need be.
I’m fairly certain that’s illegal here too (W. Oregon). Cougar fodder for sure. I have no idea what is wrong with people, and I don’t care. I hope you really can follow up and let us know what happened. She doesn’t deserve this (no horse or pet does).
Fucktards…..
get a rope…and not for the horse…well, maybe to lead her to safety…for the owner, find the nearest tree!
My sister’s first horse went blind from chronic uveitis. When we moved to Florida, he was in a pasture with our broodmare (his seeing-eye horse). she would wander up the hill and leave him behind (some buddy, huh?) I got the idea to tie a sleigh bell in her tail. He was happy after that, since he could always tell where she was at. He also figured out that when he went from grass to sand, that the fence was within a few feet. We also put up a wind chime at the water trough so he could find it easily. He did very well in this environment. We eventually were able to put him in a small outdoor arena to graze each evening by himself. He passed away at the age of 30 about two years ago. He was one Paso that could do it all! He was shown in various classes, and I even rode him once in pole bending and barrel racing at one of our Paso shows when he was 23yrs old!
If you take a close look at the picture, you can see that it’s not just one rope she’s tied with. Looks like a lead shank with a chain attached to her halter and then possibly? a nylon longe line? I’m sure most of you know what it is like when those flat nylon longe line’s go slipping thru your hands!
OMG Words escape me for the stupidity of some. Wow! And people who know me, wonder why I hate people. HMMMM! That one will take some thought. At least it looks like a stream to the right of her feet. Poor girl! I bet she tries to stand in it for some relief.
If I didn’t have so many of my own and my hubby wouldn’t kick me out for bringing another one home- I would say she can some live with us, as long as she wants/needs. I would gladly join in with the beating, Fugly Horse. I will bring my own pliers to rip his fingernails and toenails out with.
Don’t worry there’s 10 of each and we can all take turns!
If we’re getting together to beat up this poor excuse for a human…count me in!
Cutnjump: “At least it looks like a stream to the right of her feet. Poor girl! I bet she tries to stand in it for some relief.”
Unfortunately, it looks like it’s not a stream but a patch of grayish rocks. If you enlarge the photo you can see that there’s one big rock and then smaller stones around it.
Horrified! Poor thing! These people are predators! Why, oh why, do so many evil, evil people prey on such sweet innocent creatures! If not horses, why not dogs, if not dogs, how about a child, if not a child, I know what about a defenseless elderly person! Take your pick you freaking asswipe!
OK – I don’t feel better! I don’t know how any of us can feel better until we figure out a way to rid the planet of people as evil as the person responsible for this heinous behavior! FHOD – I wish you all of the luck in helping this precious mare – needless to say – if you need any help – you can count on me!
I have been involved with the rescue of numerous dogs…trying with all of my might to educate people about the over population of man best friend. From protesting pet shops that buy from puppy mills, to backyard breeders who don’t know their ass from their elbow, to the owners who think that a dog needs to experience the ‘joy’ of birth to be truly fulfilled…oh and you gotta love the parents who thinks they need to bring yet more puppies into the world so that their kids can experience the ‘miracle’ of birth! I would just love those same parents to take their kids to the local shelter on the ‘kill’ days so that they can also experience all of those beautiful loyal animals euthanized!
I digress…I am fairly new owner of three lovely horse companions…silly me I made sure I had the financial ability to provide my horses with proper shelter, vet care, etc…I had to wait 25 years! But, my horses will not go without! I wish I could say that it surprises me that this kind of insanity goes on in the horse world…sadly I am not…I was hopeful…given that horses are so large…I naively thought that maybe the intellect of the owners would match the size of the animal…*sign*
Keep up the fight! As one of the folks in Bassett Hound rescue says ‘Saving one Bassett may not change the world, but it means the world to that Bassett’ (I love that saying…although I am not a Bassett owner)
God Bless!
speachless………um err WTF
STOP IT, STOP IT, STOP IT
Protectthosewithnovoices – I agree. Like all rescuers say, if you want your kids to experience the miracle of birth, better take ‘em down to the pound and show them the freezers so they can see the miracle of death.
Kids need to learn about the miracle of sterilization and that pregnancy is avoidable. Not such a bad lesson for them to learn in general!
OMG! Poor poor little mare – what is WRONG with some people?
AAAAW C’mon, Gemtwyst. I was hoping that was a stream since there is no visible water or shelter in the photo. I was hoping she had at least one of the two, if not both. Forgive me please.
Fugly Horse- please keep us updated on this girls situation. She surely didn’t ask for, nor does she deserve, her treatment in life at the hands of her lousy owner.
I have a ‘wonderful’ neighbor that often ties a stud out in his yard to a tree on a very long rope, tied around his neck, with just a bucket of water. Well, he normally starts the day with a bucket of water, if he happens to knock it over in the middle of the day, too bad. Tree = shelter, grass = food, bucket = water (in theory), the local authorities know about it and haven’t/won’t do a damn thing. Nor will they do a thing when he breaks his rope and comes knocking at my pasture door, which has happened more times than I care to remember
I’m crying also… I can only imagine the fear these poor horses are experiencing. They’re paying the a harsh price for being good citizens.
So very sad.
Cutnjump said: “AAAAW C’mon, Gemtwyst. I was hoping that was a stream since there is no visible water or shelter in the photo. I was hoping she had at least one of the two, if not both. Forgive me please.”
Oh believe me, I wish it WAS a stream. At first I thought you were right but when I looked closer I could see that it was rocks.
Poor mare! And I forgive you, but I’m not sure why I would need to. 
That photo of that poor mare reminds me so much of that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where they tie the goat out for the T Rex to come chomp it down…
Ok – back from killing some varmints in the field – pretending they are the damn irresponsible breeders! I have a cold one! Feeling a little better…
FHOTD – I totally agree that this society in general would be better off teaching the benefits of sterilization! Particularly the sterilization of the idiot backyard breeder/puppymillers/or really anyone just interested in making a buck off breeding animals ‘just for the hell of itâ€!
Keep up the good work!
I don’t know of a state where it’s legal to leave a horse with no shelter. This old girl doesn’t even have a tree.
I’m not going to complain abou the blindness, because what caused it wasn’t mentioned.
One of my fillies is out of an Icelandic stallion who’s completely blind from drinking contaminated water. He ran in a herd of 40+ other horses; broodmares, young geldings, and foals. He had about five broodmares who took turns leading him around.
Just like to say, I know this mare personally. The person who sent the picture is a friend of mine, in fact we had been talking about sending in a picture of her and the stud that she is being bred to.
This poor mare should be put down. She constantly is waiting for her world to end.
Oh, I forgot to mention, her last foal (sired by a Clydes cross) was loaded into the back of a pickup at 6 WEEKS OLD and taken away to another barn to be sold.
Had to join just to show support. Keep it up! I own a not so lovely, maybe not so fugly mare of indeterimate lineage. And, no, I’m not responsible for the original breeding — but I’m damn sure responsible that there aren’t gonna be any more!
I’m in with the 2×4, although a lead filled baseball bat might be more satisfying. Hey — can we blind and stake the owner out without shelter or water and make them pregnant???
Will you PLEASE make t-shirts that say “My mare dies a virgin, sorry”? I’ll buy a dozen.
Nice lookin’ horse (in the face) I agree, she shouldn’t be bred with a conformation fault so critical.
I hope someone reports the owner. There are safe ways to keep blind horses, but that is not one of them. Additionally, that mare should never be bred, even if she can be.
Grandstand, give us a hint as to what part of the country is home to this mare. There is a possibility that something can be done for her.
As an owner and trainer of blind horses this HORRIFIYS me! I keep my blind horse out with other horses as well as letting him spend time alone in his pasture. He has always gotten along great. In fact he is still showing at local horse shows and does a mighty fine job, if I do say so myself. He is actually shown by children! There are ways to give these animals a good quality life. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!
Fugly pls keep us updated on this mare! This is absolutely “neglected†in my state! I would have that mare out of there so fast….. And for God’s sake why oh why breed this poor girl if you can’t even take care of her?!?!?
…Are those saddle sweat marks on her? Do I see a evidence of a girth? Am I seeing things? I think I’m seeing things.
That poor poor mare
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Now, now, behave yourselves or she is going to call the law.
Then she is going to have her website watched for photo theft!
You are all way out of line.
(Just kidding.)
She is not in the U.S. I do have a location now, and I will follow up in the AM and let you all know what I learn.
This poor mare just saddens and sickens me to no end. I want to cry. You can just see in her sightless eyes that she is hoping for death and not understanding what she has done wrong. God! This is horrible. I really hope the authorities do something about it (though thats highly unlikely), or that someone can offer her current owners a price they are willing to accept for her, then take her and love her and give her tons of carrots for a couple of days, and then hold her head in their lap and cry and tell her she is loved as she crosses over the Rainbow Bridge. Its just heart wrenching.
Im in Southern, AZ and there are some horses down the road from me (well, actually a horse and a mule) that are both dark bays. They have NO shelter whatsoever (I take that back, there is ONE Saguaro cactus). I drive by them day after day and wish someone would do something for them, standing there in the sweltering 120 degree weather. It angers me. I have called the HS, and they will NOT do ANYTHING. Horses are classified as livestock, and do not fall under the same rules as companion animals such as dogs, cats, ferrets, etc.
If I had the money, I would offer to buy and build a shade for those horses.
There is a special place in hell for sub-humans like this mare’s owners. I would like to escort them there. With all the attendant pageantry.
That poor mare. Is there any way the owner can be reported and charged? Or does this not count?
It’s sad that people would even THINK this is okay.
I feel so bad for that mare.
I have to say that everytime I see this picture, my heart aches. It is, by FAR, the worst example of neglect FHD has ever posted. That poor mare just looks like she is reaching out to you begging for help.
The really horrifying thing is that you know she HEARD the photographer come up to snap the pic. She reached out her head begging for affection (or water maybe?) and I would be willing to bet that once that camera made that click sound, the photographer walked away without a second thought.
THAT is what breaks my heart and makes me wish that this mare would either just give up and drop dead, be shot in the head by some upstanding citizen, or be seized from her owners. (ANY of these scenarios would be better than what is happening to her at this very moment.)
FHOTD, is there any update on the poor blind mare staked out in a field?
Yes, I e-mailed today with the authorities in the area and they have the picture, city, owner and all background information that I had. (They work on Sunday. I’m impressed.) She is in an area where large animal rescue resources are hard to come by but I have made it clear that I am pretty sure I can pull substantial donations for her care if they are able to seize her, and hopefully that will be an incentive.
I’ll continue to update this thread.
Keep us posted!
Good work….
Anxiously awaiting update and hoping that it involves some action for this poor girl.
Yes, PLEASE let us know how this poor dear girl is doing. Hopefully, someone nearby can take her in and care for her, and her foal when it’s born, and throw her owner’s ass in jail, give him a hefty fine, too!
About the blind mare!!!!!!!!
It is so sad how people judge you by a picture!!!!!!!! For one thing this poor blind mare was at a boarding stable before she came out here and this is how she was returned to us and they are the ones who you should be saying horriable things about not the owner..The owner wasn’t even home when her mare was not being fed..She trusted the one who she was boarding off..So don’t you guys think that you should have the facts right before you tear this person to pieces??????? The mare is not in foal….This mare is not tied on, and she runs free with another horse and all she does all day is eat and drink…At the time of this picture she was just coming home from the boarding stables and she was only tied on for a short time until we could get her too our stables..There are no predetors out her to hurt any horse alone a blind one..She is taken care of very very well by me and her owner…so please, the next time someone posts a pic of someones horse on here I hope they get their facts right before they beat them down…
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Well I guess for all of you who made those drastic comments on the blind mare should be happy. The mare is now put down. You people are so quick to judge a picture. This horse was happy and well kept by the owner for years. She was a normal horse, very kind, very loving and affectionate, she had only one problem; her being blind. As to my knowledge of this horse, she was born blind and had become accustomed to it. The horse was simply tied on for a short period of time, she was not suffering from dehydration or deprived of anything for that matter. You should get the facts straight before you tear into somebody like that. Now, the horse is put down. I am torn by this whole matter.
I hope all of you guys are happy, the blind mare is put down? I am heart broken over all of this. Even though I didn’t own the mare, it killed me for the owner to put her down..Can someone who made a comment in here answer me one thing ?If a person is blind he or she is better off dead? I don’t get it with all of you? You drove the owner to putting down a healthy horse and I hope you can all live with yourselfs..For myself my heart breaks for her everyday because she could still be down running on the fields and around other horses and she was happy and now she is GONE………
That was not at all what was being said. If she needed to be put down I’m glad it was done, rather than the alternatives out there.
If you don’t want your horse keeping skills called into question, when she was really only tied being brought in from the field, then don’t take pictures of your tucked up dehydrated looking blind mare staked in a field with no water or shelter and post in on the internet. Simple as that.