A comment on geographically stupid rescuing
Jun 15 2008
As I have discussed before, I did this myself once – I adopted a CBER horse at 3 AM and had it shipped from Washington to California. Paypal is a dangerous thing to have when you are reading about how THE TRUCK IS COMING.
But hey, learn from my mistakes. I have been reading all of these threads lately about how people in FLORIDA want to rescue horses from WASHINGTON.
ARE YOU CRAZY? Florida is FULL of starving horses in need and you are gonna pay TWO GRAND to import one from Washington?
That is stupid and wasteful! It was stupid and wasteful when I did it, but hell, that was a $700 trip, not cross-country which I know is minimum $2000. It has to be, with the price of gas.
Don’t tell me there are no horse rescues near you. Maybe they are actually busy taking care of their horses and not screaming for money and adopters on the ABR board all fucking day.
Trust me, I can find you a rescue horse near you! Just ask me!
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I feel the exact same way not only with animal adoption but with human adoptions as well. In this country we have a large amount of orphaned children but people are going overseas in droves to adopt. Gahhhh!
People often go overseas because the adoption regulations are different. The process to adopt a child in the US can be long, expensive, and difficult.
Back to topic, agree on the geographically stupid rescuing
I also see geographically stupid horse purchasing all the time. People in NJ going to VA to do their horse shopping. People in VA going to Europe. I understand why these things sometimes seem to make sense (you have relationships with trainers there, you want a particular style that is popular in that area, high density of sales barns, whatever), but it always makes me scratch my head a little bit. If you already live in a very horsey area, wouldn’t you at least want to start your search near home??
Are there any horse rescues/animal rescues in Northland NZ? I’d love to able to help out at one, but I can’t actually find any ones up here.