The Poor Mother Horses And Their Babies

Mum says when she looks at this picture of the mares and foals at the butchers sale, she can't stop crying.

The total waste of breeding a nice little foal, and then to send the foal and its mum to be killed - and the anguish of the little mare, trying to protect her baby, but she can't.

She will be driven onto a lorry with all the other horses, all in together, with her baby, with all these strange horses she doesn't know. They may attack her, or her baby and there is nothing she can do about it.

The last thing she will see is either her baby being killed right in front of her, or she will be killed first if she tries to fight to protect it too much.

Mum says that countries in Europe were at the heart of civilisation centuries ago, but that they seem to be slipping back to the dark ages in terms of their cruelty and callousness to gentle horses.

Have to say I agree with her totally, and I am only an ass.