Our charity bids for the horses for sale in sale yards in order to save their lives, but this comes at a huge cost to our charity. We have to buy the horse, pay to transport it to its new home, and arrange for a permanent home with a new owners. We have to procure food, money and volunteers all from our donations received, as we get no government support.
Our group Rescue Horse Foster Homes is wholly volunteer registered charity and we do this because we are passionate about horses.
We want to make sure horses are not just bred and sold off for food.
We believe horses are beautiful animals with feelings and intelligence, and deserve a long happy, healthy life. So far our charity has been responsible for saving over 250 horses destined to become dog food. These horses were often still young, healthy and with much to live for.
DID YOU KNOW…
There are three main buyers of horse meat in Victoria, most go for dog food and some go to SA (Peterborough) for processing for human consumption. But it is illegal to eat horse meat in Australia so the meat processed in Peterborough is sent overseas!!!
Our group focuses on the Echuca Sale yards where they have weekly sales. Unfortunately, most of the horses go for meat. We understand that this is part of life and sometimes animals will end up going for meat.
