Poor breeding decisions behind flood of low-value foals – Irish SPCA

Ireland is beingness flooded alongside low-value foals because of pathetic breeding decisions, the Irish Gaelic SPCA says.

It is urging the country’s Equus caballus owners to “show to a greater extent than Equus caballus sense” inward a bid to tackle what it calls an equine over-population crisis.

“The alone existent way to bargain alongside the equine over-population crisis is for owners to receive got a to a greater extent than responsible mental attitude yesteryear ensuring their colts are professionally castrated at the appropriate age,” ISPCA original executive Dr Andrew Kelly says.

“The key argue for the epidemic of equine welfare problems is … that equines are also readily available and, inward many cases, at also depression a cost.

“The problems are compounded yesteryear a lack of accountability together with traceability due to non-compliance alongside equine identification legislation and, of course, continued indiscriminate breeding.”

The charity says at that spot is no marketplace position for the low-value foals, leading to cases of abandonment together with serious neglect. In about cases, the horses are acquired yesteryear people without the noesis or agency to properly aid for them.

The ISPCA says it is doing its best, along alongside other charities, to rehome unwanted horses, precisely warns that welfare groups are unable to bargain alongside the large release of animals involved.

In a bid to stop the crisis, it has launched a national appeal urging owners to brand responsible breeding decisions.

It has enlisted Irish Gaelic Equus caballus lover together with model Gillian Quinn to help inward the appeal.

“Horses are magnificent together with gentle creatures,” she says. “It breaks my inwardness to encounter then many unwanted foals neglected, abandoned together with worse yet badly abused.”

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