Horse deaths (TV1 News, 3 April)

[BiK3RChiK]

I actually saw it on the news on tv last night
i do know you only believe 50% of what the news tells ya cause the rest you dont get to hear .
as you say there worth a lot of money .
its no good stating that ," someone didnt do there job" ,
theres stock in a paddock , no feed , no water id guess either
no excusses for the condition of them , no matter if the owers sick or not , there responsible . If its money or value out there , theyed have something organised.
If you boss gets cancer , sick or hit by a bus you stil wanted payed , dont you .

Even the spca said they could have organised something .

Sometimes people with terminal illness are so busy/exhausted from just coping with their illness that things get left. I know this, as my Dad died from cancer. He didn't know the half of what he was doing because he was on morphine which basically fried his brain! Another very close friend of mine is in remission from cancer, and having seen the battle he has gone through, I can see how things like this can happen. Fortunately, in both cases, family have stepped up to the plate and helped out where needed. In the case of my Dad (a farmer) my brother at the age of 19 took over the Dairy Farm and kept it running.

It's real easy to sit back and point the finger. How many are prepared to stick their neck out, and jump the fence to help out the neighbour who can't do it anymore? Not many, that's for sure! That is why stuff like this happens in our country along with spousal abuse, child abuse, etc, etc...

We need to get over ourselves in this country and step up to the plate when we see something that doesn't look right, even at the risk of getting accused of meddling in other peoples' affairs!

My 0.02!

[ajturbo]

long & short of it I was there holding him when he was put down & took my friend away from the house while the hole was being dug (we bury our horses)

bugger and here i have 3 lovely doggies...........

[chanceyy]

bugger and here i have 3 lovely doggies...........

I know & none of our horsies will they chew ..

[Trudes]

Now, I wonder how many people drove past these horses everyday and thought "goodness, aren't those horses getting skinny, and there's no feed for them.... oh well" and never gave it a second thought.
Some people, like Jim was saying, haven't got a generous or caring bone in their body, they go on about caring and shit, but when the situation arises they do nothing.
My mum picks up stray cats all over the show (now this is kinda strange... but she actually watches the death notices in her town and when someone dies, she goes round and makes sure their cat or dog is re-homed, or she brings it home), I remember as a kid also, my mum feeding animals that she didn't know who owned them because they had no feed or were looking a bit worse for wear, untangle tied up goats and help sheep stuck in a fence... (What a saint!) It's just about seeing a need and doing something about it.... it's not the animal's fault, but they're the ones that suffer. Sucks!

[homer]

from what i saw on the news the paddock where they were "appeared " to be more secluded .
i didnt notice and road that handy and didnt hear any vehicle noise .
but you are very correct .

Thats correct and also animals cant speak up , so to me its still no defence say that "oh ive got cancer, or im sick, or im dying." as a stock owner or pet owner you bloody know the consequences.

[tri boy]

Oh yeah, just for the record. You fuckers don't ever help people who really need it. There's three people on this site who have gone out of their way to help me when the chips have been down. People I've begged to help have told me to get fucked. There's people I know who would've helped if they could and their support is appreciated, but the majority don;t really care, despite wanking on about the great KB community. The rest of you make murmuring noises and pat people on the head and don't actually fucking do anything, so if that's indicative of society in general it's no wonder those horses died. I've seen it time and again. When it gets "real" Kiwis want to blame everyone else and not actually get their hands dirty.

Everybody standing around watching the horses die, with their thumb pointing firmly at their forehead and then dropping the poor bastard right in the shit when he can't do a thing about it. It's the Kiwi way.

Quite a mass generalisation there J2.
Sorry if you have been let down in the past, but ease up on slagging every one out, lest you wish for zero help in the future. MHO.
Shame about the nags, a noble creature for sure.