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With many horses being given over to charities in recent years, if you're thinking of taking on a pony or horse, it's worth considering rehoming a horse.
This July is World Horse Welfare's Rehoming a Horse month. They run this scheme continually but put extra emphasis on it at this time of year. Every week, a horse or pony is featured on their website and there are some wonderful equines looking for a home. You can find out how much one family in Scotland have got from fostering ponies here
As with any animal, horses are unpredictable. A new environment can change their character or cause their behaviour to change as they settle into a new home, for instance. But these are helpful definitions of purpose for taking on a rescue horse.
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Alternatively.....
Could you foster
a pair of donkeys
for the Donkey Sanctuary? Contact the Donkey Sanctuary
for more info
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World Horse Welfare lists a number of roles their horses and ponies could fulfil as fosterers, which helps you look for the right horse or pony, and these roles are listed here (as quoted from their website)..
- Companion - Strictly non-ridden
- Youngster - To be handled regularly until ready to come back into a World Horse Welfare Centre to be backed.
- Lead Rein - Suitable for use only on a lead rein
- First Pony - Suitable for a child on or just off the lead rein.
- Second Pony - Suitable for a more experienced child, may be more forward-going.
- Hack - Only suitable for hacking.
- Pleasure competition - For novice to intermediate riding club type competition.
- Competition - Advanced riding club type and affiliated competition.
- Ride & Drive - Suitable for both ridden and driven work.
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There are a number of horse charities around the UK who look for people to rehome horses, including those charities caring for retired racehorses. If you can help, either by rehoming a horse or telling people about them, that would be a great help to horses.
Can't foster?
There are plenty of other ways you can get stuck in to helping horses, such as supporting World Horse Welfare's campaign to halt the long distance transport of horses to slaughter - click here to see how you can take action to help.
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