April's Calendar

Foal on Dartmoor

All of our ponies were born out on the open moors and started their lives wild roaming around with their mares and natural herd groups...learning all about horse behaviour and communication...the best foundation any horse could hope for...it's only when they started encountering people that it all went wrong!  Of course it doesn't have to be like that and there are owners working hard to make sure that their foals have the best first interaction with people possible...

...Foals are very beautiful...and the tourists love to see them...but at the moment any foals born on Dartmoor have a very bleak future - huge numbers are slaughtered every year and have a history of being illegally transported live to Europe.  Foals are born as a result of tradition only to be slaughtered a few months later...and the next year it starts all over again.   We want to see that change and really want to encourage those who are trying to stop breeding and bring about change on the moors by removing stallions and running vasectomised males.

So April's calendar photo is about encouraging people to truly think about the best interests and futures of the ponies...and to put the ponies first...not egos, unethical profits and tradition.  

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