Horse Shot Over £30

[kvalidir]

Horrific story here, and I can't help but think that's the end of them as a business because of it. Vile man.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795929/equestrian-centre-shoot-dead-perfectly-healthy-seven-year-old-ex-racehorse-dump-body-owner-s-garden-unpaid-bill-30.html

[B00]

Terrible story isn't it?

You certainly wouldn't use their livery after that would you? I too hope he goes out of business due to this.

[janbee]

As you say, horrific !

[dannyk13]

What I think about that man would get me suspended from AB if I put it into words.

[kvalidir]

I know, you can't just kill people's animals because they're a week late with the rent- and his arguments are pathetic- couldn't box it my ***- well walk it to her then, hateful pig. I can see a really massive and not very pretty backlash about this, the locals don't seem happy at all. Poor horse:(

[jno]

shame she didn't feel like paying the bill, then. Looks like the poor horse was caught between a mean rider and an impatient livery stable.

[B00]

I'd be more happier if he was imprisoned for it, but he won't be, after all it's only a horse isn't it?

[jennyjoan]

I am getting to the stage I can't read anymore appalling stories in A&N.

[B00]

Aww conne, cheer yourself up a bit, see my post just below this one x

[sunny-dave]

A truly appalling incident

Horse owners/riders do have a very nasty habit of bilking livery stables - relying on their goodwill to avoid paying agreed fees - but nothing excuses this.

[kvalidir]

Jno- £30 is nothing in the world of livery. I've been on their site and the cheapest they offer is £15 which means she's a maximum of 2 weeks late- which in law isn't late at all- besides however late she is you still can't legally kill people's horses. It is disgraceful and imho the woman who loaned the horse (it wasn't even he horse) is not to blame.If I had £1 for every late payment we ever had relating to horses...

[kvalidir]

No but he might get a few good hiding Boo, I can't see people letting this drop.

[RATTER15]

I hate to think what I would have done if it was one of my horses!!!

Sick, Sick, Sick!!!!!

[B00]

I was often late paying Mini Boo's nursery fees, thank Christ the owner didn't have a gun!

[jno]

if it was nothing, kvalidir, she should have paid it. If you can't be bothered to pay someone else to look after your animals, look after them yourself. I have every sympathy for the horse and none for any of the humans involved.

[jno]

by "you" I mean everyone, not you personally

[kvalidir]

Perhaps she had a financial hiccup though Jno, you know paid late, something got taken out of her bank unexpectedly etc, or maybe there was a dispute about the money- whatever the reason the man did not have either the moral or legal right to shoot someone's horse.

[RATTER15]

jno, that is very harsh!!

have you never been in debt by £30.00 these things happen, she didnt refuse to pay!!

[RATTER15]

Well I hope this is on FB and it goes viral and bankrupts the company!!!!

[jno]

I'm not saying he had any right whatever to shoot the horse, kvalidir, he didn't. But she deliberately chose not to pay her bill when asked - it's in the story.

[kvalidir]

No disrespect Jno but so what? People refuse, defer, neglect to pay bills to us all the time, they always pay in the end one way or the other, but most times its simply a 'cash flow problem situation'. One woman owed us £350 for ages ( for a car not livery but she had a horse which is why it's relevant) because she had big vets bills suddenly come in- and that's really really normal with livery yards. Its not ideal but it's the real world, things happen and I for one have been a couple of weeks late paying something in the past, I imagine most people have, haven't you ever? This guy's disproportionate action equates to him bieng a total nutcase.