Ali's Pet Sitting LLC

09/24/2024

Y’all are on fire and on a 4 week streak!!! Thank you thank you thank you for your support

09/23/2024

Hip hip hooray for Peanut!!! Thank you for adopting!!!

Happy tails Peanut! Thank you for adopting a shelter pet!

09/23/2024

Lol

09/23/2024

As we enter the fall, and soon winter, hay production slows.

The unwanted horse ads start to appear.

“Beautiful pasture ornament available, very sweet and kind. Cannot be ridden. But only 6 years old so lots of life left!”

Or

“Retired senior horse. Very arthritic so only pasture sound. We love her but can’t justify keeping a horse we can’t ride. We also can’t keep weight on her and she costs too much to feed!”

There are not enough homes out there for horses that have health issues and are “less desirable” due to not being rideable.

Not saying it’s fair but it’s the reality.

If a person doesn’t love a horse enough to keep them through their retirement, expecting a stranger to do so does not make sense.

In fluke cases, sure you may find the unicorn retirement home that has no bad motives and actually intends to keep the horse until they pass.

But, the fact of the matter is that these types of horses are most valuable when sold to auction, usually for meat.

And if the person who lamed them or owned them into their senior years doesn’t care enough to take care of them for life, a stranger with no attachment to the horse isn’t particularly likely to.

Are there some incredibly generous and kind strangers who do this? Yes.

Are there enough of them to keep up with the “demand” of all of these unwanted horses? No.

Rather than rolling the dice and hoping that these unwanted horses will find a soft landing when they’re given away for free or cheap, consider what kindnesses are within your power to offer them.

1. You could keep them, because an unrideable horse generally costs the same as one who is ridden.

2. If you’re unwilling to do so because of their health issues and lack of “usefulness”, you could give them a humane ending with euthanasia.

Horses don’t fear death like people do. They live in the present moment. They don’t spend time worrying about their mortality or if there’s life after death.

So, if that present moment is a miserable existence, that is what their life is. Miserable. That is their reality.

If all they know in the moment is suffering, that’s what their life is comprised of.

Passing off the unwanted horse to be someone else’s issue in lieu of giving them a humane ending may feel more noble because it extends longevity of life, but it doesn’t factor in quality.

A horse being passed off from home to home, always a second class citizen due to being unrideable, isn’t a kindness.

It is humans continuously evading accountability for the care of the horse and instead passing the horse off to be someone else’s problem.

It is the humans feeling morally superior for doing so because they think keeping the horse alive is a kindness.

Even if the life is no life to live.

Or even if it is condemning the horse to be taken to the auction and sold to a kill buyer.

Love your horses enough to love them through their lack of rideability or at least give them a humane end if it’s between that and rolling the dice and throwing them into a market that is already flooded with unwanted horses.

Horses should hold value whether they’re rideable or not but currently, that’s largely not the case.

Rather than ignoring that fact, people need to be honest with themselves about what they’re actually doing.

What their choices put their horses at risk of.

Let your elderly horse pass in the home they’ve known for so long instead of throwing them out into a new environment as soon as they can no longer be ridden.

Give your lesson horses the gift of retirement after they’ve kept your business afloat instead of pawning them off when they are no longer useful.

Or give them the gift of a good death instead of just making them someone else’s problem.

If you do not love the horse that you’ve spent years bonding with enough to keep them through their “less desirable” stages of life, why would a stranger be more likely to do that for you?

Winter is coming. Don’t throw your damaged horses to the “wolves.”

Part of owning horses is caring about them enough to give them a good end.

If you feel like a bad person for euthanizing them because you know retiring them would be the kinder option, that’s likely a sign that you should buck up and keep them into retirement.

The answer is not playing Russian roulette with your horse’s quality of life.

Stop pawning old and lame horses off onto other people.

There is not the amount of kind and caring homes available that people are making it out to be.

09/22/2024

The squirrels were spying on me this morning! Lol

09/22/2024

Oh my goodness, these two boys!!! They keep me laughing and they make sure I know they love me!!!

09/22/2024

Good morning Brody and Chloe!!! Happy Sunday y’all

09/22/2024

09/22/2024

A full day of dropins! I’m so blessed! Thank you for supporting Ali’s Pet Sitting

09/21/2024

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One of the beautiful boys up for adoption at Fido Fest 2024!

09/21/2024

Endo and Daisy (she is such a happy girl all the time)

09/21/2024

Lucy and Tucker this evening, waiting so patiently for their treat

09/21/2024

Whiskey and his big smile ❤️ love this sweet pack

09/20/2024

Thank you for adopting her and all the other babies too

09/20/2024

Please help, share, comment, foster, donate…whatever you can do to help it is so appreciated

‼️HERE WE GO AGAIN...20 DOGS SCHEDULED FOR EUTHANASIA AT COWETA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES, 91 SELT RD, NEWNAN, GA‼️

This is Payso, one of 20 dogs scheduled to die by COB, Tuesday, 10/8.if we cannot find rescue, fosters, and adopters. I do not have great pics of Payso, since this sweet boy is just too scared to even look at me. He is on the adoption floor, but sits in a corner facing a wall. He shows absolutely no aggression, but was surrendered to the shelter by court order, along with Kasha, who we believe is his mother, and brothers Kashmiere, and Freeway. After just over 3 months available, they are all on "the list". Please help us find rescue or adopters to show these dogs the love and care they have never had. Come out to the shelter and find your new best friend...there are some great dogs who need all of you to help them!

09/20/2024

Love love love Mr Bird! I love his expressions! He is such a goofball that wants all the attention (and treats)

09/20/2024

I love this sweet pack, always so good to see y’all! I’ll be back in a little bit.

09/20/2024

Hello Tucker and Lucy

09/20/2024

Sweet Kelly, the first time I started watching you and your pack was September 10, 2021. I am still shocked to hear of your passing. You were such a wonderful girl, you hit the jackpot being adopted into a wonderful family. They showed you love and gave you all the cuddles and treats you desired. I love you and am going to miss not seeing you. I will always remember you Kel’!!!

09/20/2024

Alexis is one of my clients!! I love seeing her work, she is so talented. She will be doing my girls senior pics soon and I am so excited! She is local here in Senoia.

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www.alexisplevyphotography.com

09/19/2024

They love each other so much

09/19/2024

Good morning babies

09/19/2024

My boy Big Blu

09/19/2024

Sweet Daisy this evening