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Monday 15 October 2007

Don't be so near sighted

One email here has really enraged me.

N. Martin from QLD has tried to make people believe that she had the right to vaccination, before 'paddock bashers', because her income depends on it.
Well sweetheart you obviously have not looked outside your front door or past your nose.

Do you really think that people are angry just because they can’t vaccinate their horses.

You are not the only pebble on the beach, let me assure you. You cry like you are the one and only person who is suffering an income loss. Boo Hoo.

Spare a thought for the farriers who cant work (have families and all the trimmings you talk about), the people who give lessons and train horses and need that income to support all the same bills you have. And I have not even scratched the surface of the suffering that is being felt right throughout the 'pleasure' horse industry.

You think everyone who doesn’t have a race horse has a 9 - 5 job. You are so near sighted to believe that you are more deserving than anyone else. So many people make their entire income from the horse industry, not just the race horse/trotters.
My husband is a farrier, and I could argue the fact that " I'm" more deserving than any other also (as if). We need to stay clean so that he can go from home to clients place with no chance of infecting them.

But no, instead we have sat idle, with no income. Suffering the same as you would have. Don’t you think WE need an income, or do only you count?

Everyone should have been equal, we are all suffering just as you would have.
We should have the same opportunity whether it be race or pleasure.

Desarae

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is also just not in the infected states. EI has effected many people in other states also. The cancellation of competitions has meant many people have their horses out of work, and people such as my best friend who normally trains these horses during the week and teaches these owners are now without much needed work. She has had to find work outside of the horse industry to ensure her survival. Lets hope that we can get it under control and it doesnt spread throughout Australia and good luck to those in the midst of it all. I truely feel for you and your horses.

15 October 2007 at 3:12 pm  

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