why do people buy horses and...Leave them chained up

12 miles of cycling is like a trip to the local shop

I have a feeling I should start taking all my new purchases down to the horse and taking a photo of them with the horse in the background for the " Images of items I have purchased." thread :D

everyone else in Newcastle should do the same :D
 
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wilber said:
Tying a horse up to graze whether its in a field or not makes no difference, its tied up. Again it has the containers for some small amount of shelter. The same amount of shelter it would get from a hedge row in a field.
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so not much shelter at all then... and its just tied up there - not really ideal

If you're going to keep a horse in a paddock you don't need to tie them up and its generally a good idea to provide some shelter.
 
arknor said:
still chained up in a crappy spot in my opinion
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I don't mean to be sceptical but to be honest this is no proof for the more discerning amongst us. For all we know you could be duping us with some stock photographs and video. You've been here a long time - surely you know the only way to prove it is to show yourself next to the horse with a loaf of Hovis?
 
dowie said:
so not much shelter at all then... and its just tied up there - not really ideal
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No but its does'nt need that much shelter, its newcastle not a desert and it has water.


dowie said:
If you're going to keep a horse in a paddock you don't need to tie them up and its generally a good idea to provide some shelter.
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I know this I own several, I just wondered did you from your previous statement below

dowie said:
A horse tied up, not in a field and no shelter doesn't seem to be a good idea...
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Pssst its tied up because its NOT in a field... that's the point of tying it up.
 
Overslop said:
I don't mean to be sceptical but to be honest this is no proof for the more discerning amongst us. For all we know you could be duping us with some stock photographs and video. You've been here a long time - surely you know the only way to prove it is to show yourself next to the horse with a loaf of Hovis?
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Good luck convincing me to stick my ugly mug on the tinternet like :D

even my facebook profile has 0 photos of me
 
There's a fair few of them around the area I work in :( Pretty much every scrap of grass has some poor horse tied up on it next to the road.

Some are a little more fortunate to be in fenced off fields (not sure whether the owners of the horse(s) own the fields or not) so they aren't tied up... One field also has a goat which lives with the horses... The goat can quite easily slip out of the field and walks up the side of a fairly busy 50mph road but luckily seems to have some road sense as I haven't seen it in the actual road yet.
 
wilber said:
The same can be said for rope, Nor will a decent rope break to a struggling horse.
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Ropes don't crush like chains do, and they are tied to something that will break away, tying a horse to a metal stake with a chain without supervision is entirely different.
 
Energize said:
Ropes don't crush like chains do, and they are tied to something that will break away, tying a horse to a metal stake with a chain is entirely different.
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Maybe not but it is still as dangerous if the horse where to get tangled up.

Whats to say the chain is not tied to something that will break away?

We have seen no evidence of this chain being tied to a metal stake.

This horse seems docile from the pics/vid.
 
wilber said:
I know this I own several, I just wondered did you from your previous statement below
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you'll probably find that ****** who keep them chained up own several too... it doesn't say much

wilber said:
Pssst its tied up because its NOT in a field... that's the point of tying it up.
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Yes, that's rather obvious and also fairly obvious that its not really a good way of keeping a horse...
 
Just think of the good that could be achieved in the world if people actually DID things instead of riding bikes around filming fat horses grazing.

I'm a fine one to point this out however as I've read the whole thread and watched the video anyway, yay for boredom.
 
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