I think she bought one off the boat too!
Maybe once these were sausage horses - Its not just luck dealers are getting well over £4000 for these horses, very expensive sausages - not to mention the cost of skippering the boat from Argentina to Italy with vets, grooms, feed fuel, whos eating these horses ??? The King of Italy!! lol
Luckily (for me) I was only there for 3 days. I only saw this awful training a few hours before I was due to leave. They were in the middle of nowhere and I had to wait for the taxi to come and get me. It was awful :'( All the horses were really shut down. The one I saw them 'work' was in as a training livery for a couple who were new to horses. This mare would pull back when tied up. So they trussed her up, and when she fell over they beat her. The owner and I were both crying. The owner was from switzerland and understood no english. I said to her 'Monty Roberts' and she nodded so I hope she understood there was another way.
Incidentally, this yard is considered to be one of the top western training/breeding establishments in France
Well again I dont feel it that way. I dont own a criollo had no idea what one was until I joined this forum (shock horror at me lol). I just dont see how some behaviour can be condoned and some criticised when it all comes back to the same thing the treatment of horses.
Would I pay 4k for a horse destined for meat. No i wouldnt i wouldnt pay that for a horse period never mind one without papers. Do the boats emply grooms etc??? I thought it would just be the same as when they are lorried chucked in travelled the off loaded when they got to destination??? Would it not cost the shippers money/seller money to pay grooms muckers etc to travel back and forwards???
Yes you cannot just buy horses with papers, heck Kia only has his passport because i got it done so i am not one who is all about that. I just dont think that going on about ethics and breaking etc is justifiable when people are buying animals from a meat boat 'After' they have been transprted then loving the temperament that these beatings have produced. I personally think you have been ripped off if you have paid that amount of money for a meat horse when you could get a horse with just as lovely a temperament over here.
I personally sometimes think that Britain is the dumping ground for the continents rejects and what the dealers bring over from the continent to sell to us is just what cannt be sold over there goes to aution and picked up cheap t be sold to us at ridiculously inflated prices. You get the ones that are actually what it says on the tin but sometimes well you get the picture.
Nikki xxxx
Well again I dont feel it that way. I dont own a criollo had no idea what one was until I joined this forum (shock horror at me lol). I just dont see how some behaviour can be condoned and some criticised when it all comes back to the same thing the treatment of horses.
Would I pay 4k for a horse destined for meat. No i wouldnt i wouldnt pay that for a horse period never mind one without papers. Do the boats emply grooms etc??? I thought it would just be the same as when they are lorried chucked in travelled the off loaded when they got to destination??? Would it not cost the shippers money/seller money to pay grooms muckers etc to travel back and forwards???
Yes you cannot just buy horses with papers, heck Kia only has his passport because i got it done so i am not one who is all about that. I just dont think that going on about ethics and breaking etc is justifiable when people are buying animals from a meat boat 'After' they have been transprted then loving the temperament that these beatings have produced. I personally think you have been ripped off if you have paid that amount of money for a meat horse when you could get a horse with just as lovely a temperament over here.
I personally sometimes think that Britain is the dumping ground for the continents rejects and what the dealers bring over from the continent to sell to us is just what cannt be sold over there goes to aution and picked up cheap t be sold to us at ridiculously inflated prices. You get the ones that are actually what it says on the tin but sometimes well you get the picture.
Nikki xxxx
Sorry to sound rude but nikki shut up! Before you say i been ripped off for paying £5000 for my criollo Terro have you met my horse? Have you met any of the horses that us criollo owners have. All of us have a deep and loving bond with our horses. The Character of my beloved horse terro is worth the money i paid for him. His personality and the the close bond isn't something i could get from any old horse. The work i put into him just to be able to do things like pick up his feet and put a rug on him has paid off with the way he follows me around. I trust that horse with my life and he trusts me. I could leave the stable door open and he wouldn't run away he would stay in his stable cause thats where he feels happy and content. So please consider our criollos before you blabber off on one and calling my stunning horse a 'continent reject'
Mine was worth every penny - and more!! You have to ride one to understand.
Grow up your sound like a brain washed diot!!
I dont care how much you paid for your horse or how you got it. Honestly couldnt care how it is treated by you either.
My point is that you all condone the breaking of these animals the way they are broken but still love them for the way they are, they're tempraments and obedience. I have a special bond with my horse and hes in no way a criollo. Everyone with I have read about with a 'different' type/breed of horse from the norm seems to think they are different from other horses. Not slagging the icy/fjord owners here but a few of them seem to think they are different as well. They are ALL HORSES!!!! Your bond with yours will be just as deep as me with mine!!!
Get a life and read my replies before you tell anyone to shut up.
I have as much right to my opinion as you do so stop trying to patronise someone and give orders when, to use your words, you donot know me or my horse.
Honestly I despair with some of the people that use this forum I really do
nikki xxxx