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The
shelter Przystan Ocalenie does not lend, exchanges
or give back horses. Horses
are in the shelter till they pass away
Every year 40 thousands of the living horses are exported from
Poland to be slaughtered in Italy and France. This is one of few
domains in which poland is a market leader.
The idea of helping horses transported to the
slaughterhouses has already been supported by 500 thousand people,
who have signed the petition to ban transports of living horses
abroad. The main consumers are Italian. They buy the biggest and
fattest specimens paying even 4-6 k PLN (1-1.5 k EUR) Crammed in the
tracks (up to 35 horses!), terrified, hungry and thirsty animals
travel thousands of kilometers to the slaughterhouses, even as
far as to Sardinia. The Committe for Helping Animals
in Tychy (founded in 1998) is involved in collecting money for
buying back the horses straight from the transports, reloading
centres, horse markets (Bodzentyn, Sochaczew) and from people who
wish to get rid of them. We arte the community asociation. So far we
have saved 80 horses. Some of them had already been in the
slaughterhouse. Among them were 2-year old stallion Brando, his
nine-year old mother, Figa, who gave birth on the 9th 2003 and
Toronto, the only horse free rom the unhappy memories. These horses
were miraculously saved by the army from the Warta river flood.
Odra, the 15-year old Polish pony mare was working hard in
hyppotherapy. When she was diagnosed with laminitis she was sent to
the slaughterhouse. 4-year old stallion called Arlan, first-rate
horse on one of the Polish stud farms was sold because he got blind
on one eye. Litwa ans ¦nieżka, about 15-year old mares were working
in the forest. They arrived in Bodzentyn dirty and with slaughter
numbers cut on the sides. The horses were staggering and smelled of
alcohol. Drunk and dizzy, horses were loosing weight already on the
way to Tychy and they were hard to recognize after unloading.
Nadzieja and Urbanek were bought on 13 June 2003 from the reloading
centre near Kraków. They were neglected and starved almost to death.
In July we were lucky to buy an 18-year old gelding who after many
years of hard field work had ben fed on potatoes for a month to put
on weight so that it would be possible toget a beter price for him!
We called him Kuba. The horses we bought on 14 July 2003 do not have
the sponsors yet. We bought them from the horse market in Bodzentyn
near Kielce. These are two mares, Hawanka and Mona,and the 4-month
old foal who had a tendon contraction on the front legs. We called
him Karu¶. He was neglected and starved to death - the owner did not
help the poor foal up because he saw no point in it...
Sajra is a 15-year old mare bought from one of the
Polish stud farms. She had laminitis on four legs and reproduction
defect.
On 10 November 203 on the horse market in Bodzentyn we managed to
buy a 1-year,old male foal, fed on the salted potatoes. The animal
was drinking water endlessly which made him look fatter. After
being transported to our rescue centre, he had an indigestion. Now
he is much better. We called him Fortek.
Our rescue centre is also home of other mares: Kara, Batuta, Selia,
Galicja, Ba¶ka, Flower, i Gryfka as well as geldings :Tyszek, Bingo,
Kasztan, Lucky, Figaro, Bandero, Sam, Węgielek, Megan, Arbiter,
Mystic, Elian, Kuba, Alegro and two Ponies: B±bel and Bunio.
Our dream is to create a rescue centre for all
rescued horses so that their perception of the humankind was more
positive. Please help us to rescue animals
sentenced to death in the slaughterhouses so that
the Poles regain their horse-lover reputation.
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