Equine Market Watch Sanctuaries UK condemn
the indiscriminate breeders
EMW Spider tragically died on 11th Ocotber , after suffering multiple organ failure due to internal deformities.
Spider came to EMW Talgarth last autumn from a local market with dreadfullydeformed legs and feet. Thanks to Mel Richards (our bare foot trimmer) his feet soon became much straighter and he was able to gallop around the fields with his little friend, Paddy.
Unfortunately from past experience, we know that animals who display
external deformities often suffer similar problems internally.
Not only do we feel great sorrow at the loss of Spider, we also feel such anger at the people who irresponsibly and indiscriminantly breed this type of pony. In their quest to breed smaller and smaller ponies, the likes of Spider are produced, born with joint abnormalities as well s other congenital faults, causing them misery from the moment they are conceived. Through no fault of his own, this pony did not meet
the breed standard and was discarded like a piece of rubbish. It was left to us to make sure this pony had a comfortable and happy, if very short life.
This charity condems, and campaigns against, in-line breeding and the in-breeding that produces such unnaturally small ponies.
In the mean time we will continue to pick up the dreadful mess that are congentitally deformed foals d ponies that irresponsible breeders leave behind.
Spider was just 18 months old. Rest in peace little man, you are in a better
place.
EMW Wales - Siobhan
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