Pony Challenges...

We travelled down to Cornwall yesterday to visit this little pony - sadly another victim of the efforts of a very well known national "animal welfare" organisation..  Apparently it was chased by a group of male employees for 4 hours before they shot it with a tranquilliser gun - taking 5 dart shots to eventually knock her out.  Once they'd trimmed her feet, removed the ear tags, and done her teeth, they turned her out in a 2 acre field (with no stables or pen facilities) with a headcollar on and lunge line still attached!   The whole episode has left the pony even more traumatised than before they started!  The pony managed to get rid of the lunge line herself and the headcollar is now half on, half off...the welfare organisation's only advice now is to shoot it!  We've been told that since their visit the pony now tries to "kill" any men who enter the field - she is just so fearful.  The owner has asked if we can help - there are no stables onsite where the pony's been put so we're trying to come up with a plan to help...it's so frustrating because this isn't the first time we've been asked for help to pick up the pieces - the organisation fails to see the damage they are causing.  They aren't prepared to admit that they are not skilled enough to deal with wild and traumatised ponies...in the meantime they are causing more damage to these ponies than they'll probably ever realise.  The pony was suspicious of people before...and then all its fears were realised all over again, and now it doesn't want to come near people at all!

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