You were the one applauding the ban on slaughter - how about you and your fellow busy-bodies come up with a solution ?
I loved your post - provided “you could afford it” you’d adopt one. One, of thousands ! Wow, how generous ! Thousands of horses are in that position now, costing at least a few hundred dollars a month in food and care, and all you can say is your concern is provisional. Got any friends just as “concerned as you” ?
Just like a liberal - act first by getting the government involved to do your dirty work, appear dumbfounded at the negative consequences.
A p.s., this regarding your attribution of hypocrisy to me.
I am presently unhorsed, but have had many horses in the past. My experience breaks down into two general situations: boarded away, or housed on my own property. The latter is by far the preferable situation, both for the horse in question and for me. The place where I'm now living is too small to accommodate a horse; but this will likely change in the next few years, as my husband and I plan to retire and move to a rural setting. Part of our motive in doing this is to be "horsed" again. We would then have the means and wherewithal to help with this problem.
Meanwhile, financial support of rescue efforts and shelters, and speaking out on this issue, are things I can do at present. Presumably such efforts are not totally worthless.
Well, you’re right: betty is a (lower case) liberal, but she’s not a (upper case) Liberal! If you’re not sure exactly what the difference is, maybe you should find out before you strap on that invincible virtue of yours and go out to do more shooting from the hip.
Speaking of getting government to do one’s dirty work, maybe we should explore how far you are willing to go to eschew government doing dirty work for you (just for kicks and giggles).
Today’s Humane Societies are the ultimate expression of a time more than a century ago (about 1904 as I recall) when New Yorkers grew so exasperated at the sight of horses being beaten and starved on their streets, that they determined to do something about it. They had government do their ‘dirty work’ for them in the form of cruelty laws that imposed fines and jail-time for such perverse behavior. There were some earlier instances (Cleveland & Quincy, Ma. come to mind), and in New York stray dogs were caught and put down, usually by shooting or drowning, before the War Between The States. But, I think New York is primarily credited for the birth and growth of today’s Humane Society, and, as I said, that credit goes back to the early years of the Twentieth Century.
So, the question now arises; do you object to government doing your ‘dirty work’ for you, and do you want us to go back to a time over a century ago, when people bit their tongues and looked the other way when animals were being mistreated, or even killed. Your answer will tell us whether you are a Libertarian, as betty speculated, or actually a Conservative.
”Wow, how generous!”
Do you demand that betty care for how many animals (ten horses, 100 horses, a thousand horses) before you consider her qualified to speak? What restrictions do you put on your own expression?