Committee for Helping Animals

Bank Slaski S.A. O/Tychy

IBAN: PL 91 10501399 1000002209982426
BIC(SWIFT): INGBPLPW
Box 79
43-100 Tychy

Poland

 

 

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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.

 


See the fate of our little brothers... do not be indifferent, please HELP!