'Fly grazing' horses cause £12,000 of damage H&H news staff
A group of 35 gypsy cobs, dumped on community land in the Vale of Glamorgan have “trashed” the site, according to the charity The Woodland Trust, which owns the land.
Just before Christmas the gates at Monks Wood, near Wick, were broken and the horses were abandoned.
Villagers had planted trees in memory of loved ones on the land.
Staff from the Woodland Trust delivered hay to the site, but the hungry animals stripped the trees of bark and ate much of the grass.
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I have to add some of my own thoughts to this, because as is said many times, what is one man's garbage is another man's treasure. Here in the US Gypsy "Cobs" or "Vanners" fetch a HUGE price. Most horse people would give both their eye teeth to have someone "dump" some of these horses on their land. Yet here we see them being dumped in Great Britain and they are considered a nuisance.
The really sad thing is that no animal should ever be "dumped", they should be loved and cared for by someone.. If you cannot love and care for them, then don't have them. That is the reality.
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