Proud owners put their working animals on show
Some devoted owners walked alongside their animals for days for the chance to guide hold business office inwards the The Gambia Horse as well as Donkey Trust’s annual show.
The show, televised throughout Gambia, provided owners of working animals alongside the gamble to present off the touchstone of tending that tin sack live achieved, despite the bespeak to run the animals inwards a terra firma vulnerable to tropical diseases as well as nutrient shortages.
The trust’s Anna Saillet said the Gambian owners had seat inwards a huge total of attempt to decease along their animals salubrious for the event.
“Keeping horses as well as donkeys salubrious is hard at the best of times inwards Gambia, as well as the owners of the present winners deserve swell recognition for overcoming the obstacles of tropical disease, nutrient shortages as well as poverty to hold salubrious working animals,” Saillet said.
“Without their animals these people exactly cannot survive, as well as yesteryear providing an incentive to decease along their animals salubrious nosotros are too seeing a alter inwards attitudes towards their animals.”
The show, she says, provides proof that it is possible to hold a salubrious working beast inwards Gambia, despite the hard living conditions.
Without luxuries such every bit lorries or Equus caballus boxes, Gambian Equus caballus as well as ass owners are known to walk for several days alongside their animals to attend the present as well as to live inwards alongside a gamble of winning a prize.
Classes were judged on a combination of status of the beast as well as how good the animals were handled yesteryear their owners.
This year’s present saw nigh 200 horses, donkeys as well as mules inwards attendance and, in 1 lawsuit again, the overall touchstone of the animals had improved.
That has been a constant thread throughout 7 years of competition.
Trust manager Heather Armstrong said: “In the yr that the present was initiated, it was hard for judges to select a winner because as well as thus many animals were inwards piteous condition.
“This yr it was hard to select winners because the full general status of the animals was as well as thus good, specially that of the donkeys.
“This is inwards business office downwards to the fantastic success of our educational programmes, teaching both children as well as adults how to guide hold expert tending of their animals.
“This improves the lives of the animals as well as too enables the animals to live to a greater extent than productive for their owners who rely on them for their ain survival.”
The number was televised throughout Gambia, as well as attended yesteryear many Gambian dignitaries.
Although the number is enjoyable for all who attend, it is too an of import platform to assist to heighten the profile of the plight of working equines inwards Gambia.
Huge progress has been seen inwards the agency that animals are cared for inwards the Central River Region since the British-registered trust began its run nigh 12 years ago. It is hopeful that in that place is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than positive alter ahead.
A minute centre for equine welfare is planned to live built inwards 2014, to enable its services to compass farther working equines inwards the to a greater extent than urban areas of the country.
The novel centre volition render an chance to run closely alongside both The The Gambia College as well as The Gambia University, offering grooming to immature professionals as well as volition meet an expansion of veterinarian services as well as educational programmes.
The trust was established inwards 2002 yesteryear Heather Armstrong as well as her sister, the Late Stella Brewer Marsden, to ameliorate the health, welfare as well as productivity of working equines inwards Gambia.
A salubrious working equine tin sack growth a family’s income yesteryear 500 percent, as well as thus through improving equine welfare it is possible to ameliorate the lives of their owners.
More information: www.gambiahorseanddonkey.org.uk or www.facebook.com/gambiahorseanddonkey
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