Is the grand National cruel and should it be banned?

@pete wrote:

Do the horses really need to be put down

It depends on the injury pete, very often if a horse breaks a leg because of their weight it breaks in more than one place and very often breaks through the skin and splinters, this itself can cause infection and further suffering unlike dogs they dont do well trying to distribute around 1000lbs of body weight on 3 legs.
You cant easily put a horse in plaster and keep them from moving they have to be put in slings to keep the weight off and the facilities for physio in water is usually required for a semi full recovery after, a facility alot of people dont have.
The hardest thing to achieve is to keep the animal still and rested enough to allow the bones to set and that is if you have managed to move the animal to a place they can be put in a sling without doing further damage to the original break or fracture which is what very often happens.
Also long term they tend to spend the rest of their lives suffering from such injury due to poor bone infusion which isn’t fair on the animal.

I’d imagine it probably is easier

@(f)politics? wrote:

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

what she really means is they wont be able to race again and therefore wont be of any financial use to their owner, so why bother to feed and home them anymore? far easier to put them down isnt it CUN.TS

To start with no i dont mean that what so ever if you bother to read what i wrote u sanctimonious **** , but its selfish people like you that say aww lets save the poor animal no matter if it suffers for the next 12 weeks only to be put to sleep anyway or if it gets through it suffers for the rest of its life atleast ur conscience is clear abt not putting a bullet to its head eh, come back when u have something useful to say

cant compare a horse to any other pet. A horse hurts its leg it means serious threat to the rest of its days.

they are not buuilt like any other animal.

@sharongooner wrote:

@(f)politics? wrote:

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

what she really means is they wont be able to race again and therefore wont be of any financial use to their owner, so why bother to feed and home them anymore? far easier to put them down isnt it CUN.TS

To start with no i dont mean that what so ever if you bother to read what i wrote u sanctimonious **** , but its selfish people like you that say aww lets save the poor animal no matter if it suffers for the next 12 weeks only to be put to sleep anyway or if it gets through it suffers for the rest of its life atleast ur conscience is clear abt not putting a bullet to its head eh, come back when u have something useful to say

cant compare a horse to any other pet. A horse hurts its leg it means serious threat to the rest of its days.

they are not buuilt like any other animal.

I’m Sagittarius half man half horse.. i look like a horse and im hung like a man

@(f)politics? wrote:

@pete wrote:

Do the horses really need to be put down

It depends on the injury pete, very often if a horse breaks a leg because of their weight it breaks in more than one place and very often breaks through the skin and splinters, this itself can cause infection and further suffering unlike dogs they dont do well trying to distribute around 1000lbs of body weight on 3 legs.
You cant easily put a horse in plaster and keep them from moving they have to be put in slings to keep the weight off and the facilities for physio in water is usually required for a semi full recovery after, a facility alot of people dont have.
The hardest thing to achieve is to keep the animal still and rested enough to allow the bones to set and that is if you have managed to move the animal to a place they can be put in a sling without doing further damage to the original break or fracture which is what very often happens.
Also long term they tend to spend the rest of their lives suffering from such injury due to poor bone infusion which isn’t fair on the animal.

poli you always make a lot of sense to me.
x

and thank you pebs I’ve learnt a lot from this thread