This is a good idea. I think sick unwanted horses and even perhaps ill-mannered ones should be put down or slaughtered for dog food. It's better than the alternative. Others could be used in training programmes for riders or for vacationers.
I think this is a good idea, and I hope and pray the United States comes to its senses and stops shipping horses to Canada for slaughter. Horses have fought with us/for us since man domesticated the first wild horses. Horses have fought in your American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Boer War, the Crimean War......... the list goes on. Horses are still used today in Afghanistan by the Canadian Governor General's Horseguards. We bet millions - perhaps billions of dollars each year on the Triple Crown. Horses used to be the main mode of transportation before the invention of the automobile. Horses have been used on farms for centuries, and still are. I have been a horse lover my entire life, and I find this issue extremely saddening. Our CBC National News did an expose on this issue, and it's quite appalling and sickening. PLEASE put a stop to this.
Here in Los Angeles County, you have to pay $15 a year to license your horse. How about raising the fee to $20 and charging a higher fee for stallions. I would gladly pay alittle more if the money went to support unwanted horses