Today (16th March), an item was posted on telegraph.co.uk titled ?New countryside crime of ?horse tipping? and ?fly grazing??.
?? The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has received more than 200 calls in the last year from exasperated land owners who have found neglected horses abandoned on their land.
The animals are often in a poor condition and can be wild and dangerous to handle.
Unscrupulous owners are also putting horses out to graze on private land as prices of hay and grassland increases, then refusing to remove the animals.
It is believed the increase in abandoned horses has been driven by the recession that means many horse owners are struggling to keep their pets.
Old horses that cannot be sold are expensive to maintain and it is also costly to call out a vet for humane euthanasia ?
Harry Cotterell, the President of the CLA, called the phenomenon ?horse tipping?.
He also said there are multiple reports of ?fly grazing?, where animals are left to graze on private land without permission or payment.
The problem, that is worse in Wales and around the M25 corridor, can be extremely expensive and upsetting to deal with.
Mr Cotterell said landowners are in an impossible position if the owner refuses to remove the horse or does not come forward.
He also said it was cruel to the horses which are often traumatised and in a poor condition.
?Horses can be a pain if they are wild,? he added. ?What are you going to do with it? It may not be your horse but it does become your problem.?
The British Horse Society, said the numbers of horses being abandoned has gone up in the recession as even middle class people struggle to feed their pets.
Redwings, the largest horse sanctuary in the UK, said the number of straying or abandoned horses reported to it jumped from 160 in 2009 to 241 in 2010.
Some charities are reportedly having to turn away old horses, meaning that many more have to be put down.
In the past decade the number of ?pet? horses in Britain has risen sharply to more than 1.2 million.
However, the cost of caring for the animals is not cheap at a minimum of ?1,500 a year and far more if they are homed at livery stables, which cost between ?50 and ?160 a week ??
Read the item and be the first to add your comment online at www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9146120/New-countryside-crime-of-horse-tipping-and-fly-grazing.html
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