Sanctuary horses

We are all getting older. And so it is not surprising that horses and ponies are not spared from this. But while people can benefit from their pension when they are old, frail and no longer fully functional (we all hope that will be the case), older horses can quickly become a financial burden for the horse owner. Because they have not paid into the pension fund through their work and have to hope that their person has made some provision and is also prepared to spend money on caring for an old horse.

An old horse is labor-intensive and cost-intensive and, above all, at some point it will only be rideable to a limited extent or not at all. But perhaps the horse owner doesn't want to give up riding and supporting a second horse isn't financially possible. Now the question arises: what to do with the old animal? Turn the formerly loyal friend into one of the many horses for slaughter? Are there horses in the animal shelter? Or is a sanctuary the right contact?

However, the operators of sanctuaries are usually familiar with the needs of older horses and enable pensioners to be kept in groups with plenty of exercise and extensive care, so that the accommodation of older four-legged friends at the sanctuary for horses makes sense. It is necessary to look at the keeping conditions at the sanctuary in advance in order to be able to decide whether the operators are acting seriously and whether the horse pensioner will be in good hands here.

Greece farms for horses usually do not only care for paying pensioners, but also buy horses from poor husbandry or horses for slaughter in order to enable these horses and ponies to live a life appropriate to their species. This is also expensive and so the farms rely on donations. For many sanctuaries, rehoming horses is a priority, because once one of the animal welfare horses has been successfully rehomed, this gives the sanctuary operators the chance to take in and save even more horses and ponies.

Sanctuary horses

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