WHAT A DISGRACE - FLAMINGO PARK TOP TRAINER JAAP VISSER

Only my opinion ,but I also agree with an earlier post.why take so long to act on a decision when an animals suffering is in question.????

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the LORD works in mysterious ways.

I don't agree Hibernia, with most severe leg injuries horses must be stabled. Even after a leg op horses need stable rest for 6 weeks or more and if that was the case why not put the horse in a paddock and not in a camp where 10 or more horses are running around. These camps are not for horses with injuries or horses that are retired, they are for horses that are resting for 2 or 3 months.
Mr Visser decided at 06.58 on Sunday morning to put the horse down. If he had to miss church on Sunday and rather put down a horse in distress I'm sure God would understand. What happened to the rest of his day.

Are horses that are no longer needed for racing in Kimberley sold to the Lion Park ?

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hibernia Wrote:

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> Can`t remember if i contacted the Nhra lastnight
> or early this morning but still no reply or even a
> notifcation that they have received my mail


this is disturbing, the least they could do is reply.... just hope some sort of investigation is implimented

Klink na n KAK storie vir my !! Never in all my days has an injured horse ( major leg problems) been left in a paddock to recover (Maybe shins). This can only do more harm than good. One would want to limit the horses movement not the opposite. I can only think Jaap went to pray for the horse on Sunday.

Steph is 100% right. How can you go to Church and pretend to be a Christian while one of Gods magnificent animals is in pain and make it wait to be put out of its misery? The horse should have come before those "commitments". Harris, that question is a great one for there. We are still trying to find a horse we sent there and were told that it had a good home but they not sure where that is now!:S Too many stories going around that some trainers are saying that a good home has been found and then selling them to be taken to slaughter and being transported in the back of trucks in appalling conditions. Maybe Steph, RC or someone else have also heard this?

I had a horse I sent from Cape Town The trainer told me after 2 months that he has knee chips in both legs and best thing was to put him down and sell him to the Lion Park. I went with it at the time. It was not Jaap Visser. I presume now he must have been delivered to the farm, then shot and fed to the lions.

Generally a vet is required to put down a horse with a gun in an humane way. The horse will more often than not be put down at the stable yard, and his carcass would be taken to the Lion Park/ Croc Farm. There is nothing wrong with the meat being fed to the lions... it's the circle of life. And if the horse did not suffer getting there, there is no reason to object to it. It's a far better end than ending up as emaciated scrap metal cart horse in a township somewhere. ..

rubyclipper Wrote:

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> Generally a vet is required to put down a horse
> with a gun in an humane way. The horse will more
> often than not be put down at the stable yard, and
> his carcass would be taken to the Lion Park/ Croc
> Farm. There is nothing wrong with the meat being
> fed to the lions... it's the circle of life. And
> if the horse did not suffer getting there, there
> is no reason to object to it. It's a far better
> end than ending up as emaciated scrap metal cart
> horse in a township somewhere. ..


or dieing from starvation on some plot...

RC, I have nothing against that at all. I don't like the thought of them being kept in bad conditions until there are enough of them to make the trip to an abattoir a long way away in bad transport. We are told that some trainers are selling them for money to the middleman and putting that in their pockets. Still investigating at the moment.