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Miniature Horse Rescue
There are many kind people who adopt and care for the sad discards of irresponsible miniature horse breeders and rescue miniature horses.
A dwarf horse can be very expensive to maintain and dwarf horses can easily cost more than $1,000 per year in Vet care to maintain a quality of life. Several superb miniature horse rescue organizations include:
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SaveTheHorses.org - A charity dedicated to helping horses,
including miniature horse dwarves. You can
sponsor the mini dwarfs and make a difference in their lives.
Dickie needs leg surgery and special shoes and needs his piggy bank
filled. Can you help?
- US Equine Rescue
League – USERL is a Non-profit organization which rescues
abused, neglected, injured, or abandoned horses, provides them with
food shelter and homes.
- The Guide Horse Foundation - The GHF accepts refuse dwarfs and cares for them for life, providing orthopedic care, surgery and pain medication.
Many outraged miniature horse owners are lobbying to apply existing animal cruelty laws to sub-standard miniature horse breeders.
Some think that the production and suffering of crippled dwarf horses is a national disgrace.
Severe dwarf miniature horses may live for only a few days, while others may suffer for many years with crippling leg deformities and other serious health problems. Fortunately, some caring people will adopt and attempt to rehabilitate a crippled dwarf horse. Photos of dead dwarf horses are published at the Horsie Heaven web site.
Some of
of the things that you can do to prevent animal cruelty include:
Report criminal miniature horse abuse
The actions of some irresponsible miniature horse breeders may be criminal,
and animal cruelty statutes suggest that a miniature horse breeder who fails to adequately care for their
dwarf horses can be prosecuted under felony animal cruelty statutes in
some States. If you discover a dwarf owner who is not providing proper
farrier and Veterinary orthopedic care, you can report them to your
local police, PETA and ASPCA.
Volunteer your time
Volunteers are needed to rescue and care for crippled and deformed miniature horses.
Some miniature horse rescue volunteers are working to monitor miniature horse Internet
message boards in an effort to locate and prosecute miniature horse
breeders with cruel and reckless breeding
practices.
If you suspect a miniature horse breeder of deliberately breeding horses
with dwarf characteristics, it can be very hard to prove that they are
producing dwarf horses. Many of these breeders may kill their dwarf horse
foals at birth, while the greedier breeders quietly sell the dwarfs to
carnival sideshows.
According to
Andrea Rollins,
some miniature horse breeders have a stigma about producing dwarfs and many
are killed shortly after being born: "some humanely destroy any dwarf
bred on the farm."
Lobby for Federal horse abuse legislation
The reckless creation of dwarf horses is considered by many to be a national disgrace and work is
now underway to lobby for Federal legislation to impose severe civil and
criminal penalties against miniature horse breeders who fail to provide proper medical and
foaling facilities.
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