Comments on: Equine Group Makes Plea For Help

By: unreal

unreal — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:43:58 +0000

Why don’t you give me money for my horse PER?!

Sock it to them vet !!

By: crazy

crazy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:23:23 +0000

PER, if you have the horse, you pay the bill. It may have been much more sensible to put the horse down.

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:22:36 +0000

It really is amazing how everytime something is posted on here about PER, There are certain people that can’t wait to jump on and verbally assault someone for doing a job, that no others take the responsibility of doing. We can tell that you hate PER, they obviously must have investigated you or one of your friends. I would just like to know if any of you have done any research on rescues. There are hundreds of them and they all survive on donations because the counties can’t afford all of the horses that wonderful people keep BREEDING. Check out other websites that have horses for sale.. ( ads like mare with baby for sale and oh wait you get a 3 for 1 because she is breed back but i have to many and must sale.) So PLEASE stop blaming PER for a job that would not even exist if it was not needed. Some rescues have hundreds of horses, they are taking care of and trying to find homes for. With people just giving horses away, It’s really hard for the rescues to get them adopted, there just are NOT enough homes. As for as slaughtering, It has not stopped, they take them to Mexico and Canada by the truck loads. Checkout the internet search horse slaughter. Good, rideable, sound horses that won ribbons, races and babysit children are being stabbed in the spine or hit in the head then hung by their back feet, then their throat is slit to bleed out. Yeah that sounds like a great thing to have. I think PER is doing the best they can. I live in Santa Rosa and yes we have the Horse Asst. council which is great! But they can’t take care of everyone neither, and there are alot of cases over here going to court too. PER has not taken in anymore horses because they are FULL. They try to work with people because if they didn’t they would have hundreds of horses to take care of just like other rescues. So if they do such a bad job why doesn’t someone else step up and do something! I don’t think they would complain. Thank you PER. I am sending a little donation, wish it was more but a little is better than nothing

By: why not?

why not? — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:23:54 +0000

invest in a vet book , buy vet meds locally, get wraps, cotton, peroxide,etc., from a dollar store, if you need advice, call the vet, live within your means like the rest of us.

By: tired of it!

tired of it! — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:01:14 +0000

These people (PER) are no more than storm troupers with yellow t-shirts, and if that doesn’t work they’ve got police back-up. Despite the great efforts they have put forward to help the horses of this county, they’ve burned so many bridges with people here who wanted to help either with time or facility and were turned away because it was not up to thier mansion on the hill standards; I’ve seen where some of those people live and how they take care of their own horses, they’ve really got some nerve asking for help now.

I certainly think that if you don’t have a place to put your rescues or the money already on hand, don’t take the horse.

As for all horses being livestock, they are what you make of them, for some, they’re a means to an end, something to be used and put up, to others they are a very big part of the family.

By: Gulf Coast

Gulf Coast — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:48:34 +0000

Century Girl,
Are the vet techs supposed to dontate their time too, how about the secretary in the office, are the drug companies supposed to give their drugs to the PER for the surgery and rehab? PER has a horse there almost everytime I go the the vet’s place. He cant start doing their work for free, he would never get to anyone else.

PER wants to start Horse welfare, where we pay for them to take care of horses. Thanks but no thanks. I agree with some other comments that we should have continued to allow horse slaughter at least then people have a market for the horses. A horse is livestock not a family member.

By: Century girl

Century girl — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:07:21 +0000

It would be nice if the Vets would either discount their services or volunteer their work perhaps being reimbursed just cost.

By: AL

AL — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:09:04 +0000

Santa Rosa County has a much better system in place, the have a group that specifically takes donations of time / money to assist not only the fosters, but also owners who have fallen on hard times. ( http://www.srchorseassistance.org ). Animal Control does the investigations / seizure of animals.

HOWEVER – PER is what we have here in Escambia County and they are doing a job nobody else is / would do.

By: my own two cents

my own two cents — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:55:37 +0000

It looks like a beautiful horse. Thank you to all the people who can help abused and neglected horses.

By: Horse!

Horse! — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:02:06 +0000

This is an empire building organization. How many horses do they now control? I will not give one penny to this organization until they start finding permanent homes of which they relinquish total control and have no ownership in. They themselves are doing what they themselves go after other people for. More animals then they are able to provide for properly.