[hwrangler]

Hi all,
I hope some of you have been following this story. I haven't been around so I apologize if this was already posted. They found 32 horses dead on the property, and yet the judge has decided to return 29 of the 125 animals they removed because the family considers them "pets"! Appalling! Please write a letter to the judge to ask him to change this decision. These animals are obviously in danger! It will only cost you around ninety cents to send a letter to England. Thanks!


Dear Equine Online member
Urgent Plea to Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth - Amersham Horses
Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth has ordered 29 donkeys and ponies be returned to Mr James Gray and his family. Oxford magistrates heard the family consider some of the donkeys and Shetland ponies to be pets.

Judge Kainth agreed to return the pets to the family but rejected their application to have the remaining 82 animals returned. These animals will instead be sold at auction in May in Warwickshire.

The RSPCA had argued that it should be allowed to oversee the re-homing of the animals in order to safeguard their future welfare.

But Judge Kainth said the donkeys and Shetland ponies had to be returned to the Grays, "as there is no evidence to show they are in any danger".


RSPCA inspector Kirsty Hampton said the decision to return the horses to the Grays was "devastating".

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

Please write directly to Judge Kainth to express your views on exactly why these equines SHOULD NOT be returned to the Gray family and why the remaining horses SHOULD NOT be sent to a public auction.

Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth
Oxford Magistrates Court
PO Box 37,
Speedwell Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1RZ

Please ask every animal lover you know to write to Judge Kainth. There might only be a tiny chance that we can change his mind but for the sake of the horses that chance must be taken. Please write even if you are not living in the UK. If these animals are returned or sold then it will set a very bad precedent for future cruelty cases.

We have set up a Facebook group to help spread the word.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10726482380

Thank you.

Caroline Bell
www.equineonline.net

Further reading:
http://www.ilph.org/news_details.asp?id=930
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/article.php?aid=173804
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7331606.stm
http://www.equineonline.net/horseforum/showthread.php?t=5767


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