Jiglu: Farmtalking: Discussion: Re: Horse Passports

Originally from: coleen

Hi Mona,

Not horses, but along the lines of stolen animals. Some fifty thousand dogs a year go missing most stolen in this Country. Many never to be re-united with their owners. There is a mass market of stolen to order for markets overseas. Organised gangs work areas targeting the dogs.

I am not sure how they get these dogs out of the Country, but they do. What about the horses that are stolen, are they sent abroad? I was speaking to someone who visits auctions and horse sales looking for stolen horses (the sales that appear out of nowhere on some desolate hill side) she told me that dogs as well as horses get traded as these places, and stolen dogs have been found for sale. So do the people who steal the horses also steal the dogs? I would say yes in some cases.

I cannot see any passport stopping the trade in stolen horses within the UK, not when they go from dodgy dealer to dealer. Many of the stolen dogs are microchipped but that does not stop them being pinched. People are very good at providing false paperwork also. The Gypsy will not do any registering with ALL the horses they own will they? So how can anyone tell what they do and do not own.

Coleen