Reason 342 not to own a horse...

[speedracing944]

Rendering plant. We have three dead horses that we now of buried, and each requires a backhoe and at least ten feet 200 feet away from any well. Wife changed from two big horses to a miniature horse that is a little bigger than our collie. She's has enough of pouring $$$$ into hay that turns into manure in 24 hours.


If there are any vet schools in the area, they will often take them for dissection study.

You *need* contigency plans with horses. The worst is when a horse drops dead during the night, in the winter, and freezes in a stall. Think of the nightmare- you either have to chainsaw the carcass and take it out in pieces or disassemble the building and take out a wall to remove it. And it always seems to be some dressage rider's six figure horse that is now going to require six figures of therapy to get over.

Horses are livestock. You don't get married to them.

[Don Ro]

I owned an Arabian gelding for 4 yrs. Trail riding (English) through the coastal range of the Santa Cruz mountains of the SF Bay Area. Sound neat?
Sold him to an ex for $1 because I knew she loved him & would care for him until death.
Never again!

[nzporsche944s2]

I love horses....but I can't eat a whole one! Boom-Boom!

Slightly OT - horsemeat is actually very good to eat and is very common in Europe particularly in small goods. I have no problem eating it.

I think the scandal occuring in England at the moment is not necessarily the fact that it was horsemeat but more that fact that it wasn't beef. If they declared the fact that it had horsemeat content and as long as the beast is killed humanely and slaughtered hygienically then what is the problem?

Having said that and in reference to the OP I'm not sure I would start carving up a frozen dead horse lying in a field unless it was a life or death situation.

[SteamWolf]

the problem with the horsemeat scandal is there are no checks or records of how the meat stopped being a horse and became lasagne. No health or quality checks at all, as it was sold as beef.

[cashflyer]

Horse Away or Horse-B-Gone.
They're in the yellow pages.