right couple months ago we woke up with a horse teetered on back of our house ( we did not know then in fact he was a painbald pony only 7 months ) it was on 5 th of nov week ,anyhow someone was attending to the poor thing but as it was coming close to the firework night many of us we been very concern on his welfare any how , there have been kids who stoned him and tried to put his hay on fire . after couple days of calling RSPCA , several rescue horses and police , finally his owners removed him. We thought he will be going in to stables ...yeah right all this crap winter was out side by him self about a mile away from us and moved regularly from one side of the road to the other , last week the poor thing come back at our place , he is in the rain , dirty as a pig ( i do not think he was groomed at all) . we have been told before his owner lives not far away but his brother comes to feed him and move him , however when the police arrived couple months back out of nowhere appear more blokes who in fact should of not been there but we found out they r travellers and we believe the owners might be this chaps .
so now the poor thing is back of our house , and looks to get very distressed when people who pass by and give him a pat then they r leaving , he starts to run in circles and gets very distressed . Is a very calm pony and absolutely gorgeous .
He come at my dogs and they had a good sniff is not afraid of them , we r very very concerned about the welfare of this poor boy is about 10 months old now and I have heard rumours that he would be keep out side on council land , exposed to dogs and nasty kids , until the age of 2 , when allegedly would be good for cart .

The law dose not help me at all , is not illegal to keep the horse in this conditions , they can move him several meters away every 7 days , he looks to be hungry all the time (a circle around him the grass is running thin ) and is raining terrible out side . He is soaking and dirty like hell , it dose slightly thinner now then it was 3 months ago and the head collar seems to be very very tight .
I called the councillor on our area he said he would do something but I have some doubts , do not not know what else we can do for this poor lad , he really should be now in the stables

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That is terrible: re the RSPCA, can you contact them again?

World Horse Welfare: Horse charity has a contact number: "If you would like to report a horse welfare concern in the UK, please call our Welfare Line for free on 08000 480180" - from this page World Horse Welfare: Report a concern in the UK

Also maybe your local media or even BBC - when faced with possible adverse publicity if can help galvanise some action from these large orgs! Also worth trying your local MP - while it might be that they cannot help much initially, the squeaky wheel gets oiled, so making as much fuss as possible may just pay off.

Whereabouts are you? Are their perhaps other local animal welfare centres that might be able to help?

Good luck please keep us updated. How frustrating and horrible for the pony involved.

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Kay and Cattro - at least 21 (almost 22) years old, diabetic since Nov 2008 + CRF since Sept 2009. Still going! An angel. Blanco - about 2 years old, who knows where he came from, but sure glad he ended up with me.

I called today , but I got out of ours number 01953498682
... I did contacted u before guys and u were the only people who were going to come out couple months back , but by chance the police was passing by and then the 'owners' showed there faces .
RSPCA said to me as long as is teetered we can not do nothing ...u know the story ....
.... will try again ....
there is anything I can improvise to cover him up ? is soaking

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I am in Leeds west yorkshire

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I wouldn't recommend anything other than a horse blanket which fits and then he will need to be checked on to see he is ok. Even if tethred and legal, can the RSPCA not come out on a cruelty or about to be cruelty charge? the pony needs cover and proper food, could get rain scald in this weather, tell them! Thanks for trying to help, am contacting some horsey buddies to pick their brains.

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Kay and Cattro - at least 21 (almost 22) years old, diabetic since Nov 2008 + CRF since Sept 2009. Still going! An angel. Blanco - about 2 years old, who knows where he came from, but sure glad he ended up with me.

Contact Us

"(0113) 261 4344 (day) or leave a message
(0113) 279 1856 (eve) or leave a message"

I don't know if they can help but they may have ideas, am googling for horsey places in Leeds, not to much I can find.

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Kay and Cattro - at least 21 (almost 22) years old, diabetic since Nov 2008 + CRF since Sept 2009. Still going! An angel. Blanco - about 2 years old, who knows where he came from, but sure glad he ended up with me.

not sure what happened to the URL I cut and pasted, here it is again. Hope Pastures Home Page

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Kay and Cattro - at least 21 (almost 22) years old, diabetic since Nov 2008 + CRF since Sept 2009. Still going! An angel. Blanco - about 2 years old, who knows where he came from, but sure glad he ended up with me.

welcome in to my world ....thanks will give a call to them , we just coem back from the walk with the dogs and this guy who keeps moves him and give him some water just arrived with a big spade to take the pool out of the ground , Flash the pony when he heard our voices raised his head and come close to our female dog , she is very protective with him ... he will just be moved few meters away and let there ....
will call this numbers thank u

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do not worry , is the forum , it just extracts the key word and expose them , the link is there just hidden with the key word page of Contact us

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good luck, has the pony got food other than grass? It could probably do with some decent hay. Anything else might upset it's tummy I guess.

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Kay and Cattro - at least 21 (almost 22) years old, diabetic since Nov 2008 + CRF since Sept 2009. Still going! An angel. Blanco - about 2 years old, who knows where he came from, but sure glad he ended up with me.