When I first began riding, I knew just about nothing. No clue how horse SHOULD be treated. We found a really cheap barn and went there. The place was horribly dirty and each stall was very small and never mucked. The stalls lined the arena but workers did not want to cross the arena to get to some stalls. They would go over there to feed the horses but that was about it. Horse droppings piled up in one horses stall. The horse just sat there, white hair and mane matted and a brown faded color instead of the real white it should be. She was never taken out to do anything. She just rotted away there. The horses were so skinny because of "money issues" yet the barn keep on getting new horses! They had no more stalls so they made make shift ones. They were horribly small, not enough room for the horse to turn. Horses had huge lack of turn out and were very frisky and chewed apart their stalls. The instruction was terrible, the arena was trashed and half the horses sat outside in things that looked like paddocks but they were the size of stalls and the horses had no blankets or protection in the winter and they would just sink into the small muddy square they were held in. I herd a worker talk about the horses passing away and many had leg problems. All in all, horrible place.

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My question, why do people do this? Horses are alive! They have feelings! I felt so bad for them. I now ride at a wonder full new barn where the horses are treated like royalty. Thank goodness!

i would call the ASPCA or what ever your local animal police are called. this is definitely animal neglect. just tell them what you told us and give them the address of the place and ask them not to mention your name. hope this helps ?

Pure and simple my dear. It is called GREED and humans are the champion for their own cause. And what you describe is not the only type of abuse involving horses and animals. Some cases are not so obvious.

Unfortunately there are many places like that. You should call ASPCA on that place, skinny horses?!? That's basically abuse. But anyway to answer you're question, some people don't know they're doing it because they think a horse is like a dog. Other people are just plain stupid, or would rather spend their money elsewhere.

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You answered your own question in your description. "We found a REALLY CHEAP barn,"and "because of 'MONEY ISSUES.'" Money is generally the motivator in these situations. When a barn or owner has money problems they don't really think of the horse, just the money. I was boarding at a barn a few years ago that had a hard time making their payments. If they increased the board people left, but if they didn't they couldn't pay off everything. So they started getting very strict on hay, grain, and bedding. They actually put up fake cameras, signs, and chains across the back area to keep people out. The only thing was that they didn't feed enough hay and they never put more bedding in the stalls. We left about a week after that.

In horse barns you really get out of it what you put in. If you're paying $50 a month in board you're going to have a really crappy, rundown barn with no help. Likewise, the barns that you pay $500 or more for are usually well run facilities. Sometimes you hit a gold mine. I'm at a barn currently that has pretty nice facilities. They are workable and nothing too fancy, kind of like me. Concrete floors, nice crossties, 12X12 stalls with great bedding, awesome feed, pretty good turnout pastures, lots of equiptment to use, large arenas that have nice footing, and a hot/cold wash stall. My trainer is currently located there and the nice barn just came with switching to her. It's only about $350 a month and is much better care than my $500 boarding barn that I left. So it also depends on the barn and who runs it.

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A horse is not a delecate animal. Don't call the animal police for that. A horse doesn't need to turn, they sleep standing. How do you know those horses aren't wild? Those horses could be young and still being trained, if so then they have to be tied up tight for the saftey of the trainer and the horse. If a horse isn't tied up when its wild then if you try to catch it its gonna kick you and possibly kill you. Just let the workers do their job and stay out of the way because those workers know what their doing and you don't. And the white horse that was there was probably old.