Chaos unfolding as Canada closes to slaughter ships; Mexico next?

[bare it all]

I would prefer euthanasia over starving and suffering for days and weeks while awaiting death. It's a hard truth you have to accept when you realize not every pretty pony is going to get a cushy forever home. Same applies to dogs and cats. Too many unwanted and too few homes.

[paisjpq]

Euthanasia is fine.. as long as we don't call slaughter euthanasia. I don't see how a US horse could ever meet the passport requirements that are supposed to take effect next year. Unless you raise it for meat and track it like a cow then the medication records will NEVER be accurate.

if Bute is on the banned substance list--no clear date for processing--that eliminates pretty much every horse ever raised for racing, breeding, showing, or companionship. I can't think of one that I have had my hands on who has not been administered Bute at least once in it's lifetime... whether for colic, castration, sore feet, fever, or any other bumps and scrapes... the only animal that doesn't get bute is the one that hits the ground intended for food. Those animal simply don't exist in the US outside of very small groups of animals bred for meat in Texas and Oklahoma (that i know of)...

Sounds like the plants have been re-opened to US horses as of today.