NYRA latest to add anti-slaughter policy

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Originally Posted by freddymo

How much does it cost to put a horse down?

Here (mixed practice, rural around Lexington) farm call, euthanasia $110-$140. Then you use your own backhoe or get the renderer to come out.

I don't know what racetrack vets charge - Chuck?

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Riot

Here (mixed practice, rural around Lexington) farm call, euthanasia $110-$140. Then you use your own backhoe or get the renderer to come out.

I don't know what racetrack vets charge - Chuck?

So your choice is spend 125 or receive 350? Its a 475 dollar decision.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by freddymo

So your choice is spend 125 or receive 350? Its a 475 dollar decision.

Exactly the choice. Different people make different choices, for different reasons.

Emotionally, I do think it's important to recognize that it is much easier for people uncomfortable with the emotions involved with making the euthanasia decision to put a horse through auction, leave a dog at the pound. It is like having one blank in a round of five firing squad bullets.

Many people, seriously, do not like to "play God" by making an active life or death decision, especially if it is an animal they have a deep emotional attachment to. Many people feel incredible, overwhelming guilt.

That is not my personal viewpoint for my own animals, but it is a viewpoint many people hold, and one has to recognize it exists.

This, obviously, is different from those that really don't give a darn about the animal.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Riot

Exactly the choice. Different people make different choices, for different reasons.

Emotionally, I do think it's important to recognize that it is much easier for people uncomfortable with the emotions involved with making the euthanasia decision to put a horse through auction, leave a dog at the pound. It is like having one blank in a round of five firing squad bullets.

Many people, seriously, do not like to "play God" by making an active life or death decision, especially if it is an animal they have a deep emotional attachment to. Many people feel incredible, overwhelming guilt.

That is not my personal viewpoint for my own animals, but it is a viewpoint many people hold, and one has to recognize it exists.

This, obviously, is different from those that really don't give a darn about the animal.

Euthanasia sucks but a trailer ride across the country over the border to a slaughter house in Mexico seems less human?

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Originally Posted by freddymo

Euthanasia sucks but a trailer ride across the country over the border to a slaughter house in Mexico seems less human?

I would rather kill my animals by my own hand than send them to slaughter. For some people, sending to auction is just an easy way of sliding out of taking the responsibility. That can't be denied.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Riot

I would rather kill my animals by my own hand than send them to slaughter. For some people, sending to auction is just an easy way of sliding out of taking the responsibility. That can't be denied.

I dont disagree..Its a tough equation if your 2 kids are sitting at your dinner table with mac and cheese for dinner instead of a hamburger broccoli and potatoe because you dont have the money to buy the ground beef.

[Linny]

I have said this on riding horse boards and been creamed for it but here goes.

I'd rather that there be a slaughterhouse in every county. It is not the killing of the animal I detest, it's what happens to an infirm, sometimes old horse during transport, auction, time in pens etc. Here is an animal that has learned to trust humans. People have tended to it and cared for it, fed it treats and brushed and bathed it. Suddenly he's in a truck without his people, scared, getting kicked, bitten and injured by all manner of creatures. He doesn't understand it. He's abandoned.
If owners had the option of taking their horses to a local slaughterhouse, rubbing their nose and giving them a last treat just as they might before eithanasia the horse's final days and even months are not sheer Hell. Owner gets a few hundred $ and not a bill for a few hundred. To the horse the difference between euth and slaughter is not that great, if done properly.