The Management Committee of Save Equus would like to provide the following advice concerning the situation known as Animal Hoarding. Save Equus has experienced a number of significant cases of Animal Collecting or Animal Hoarding in the past 24 months and believes this phenomenon is a serious threat to the welfare of horses in Western Australia

 

Our message is directed at people who are selling or rehoming horses, we want to inform you about Animal Hoarding and ask that you to be aware of the behaviour of hoarders when you are rehoming or selling your horse. The advertisement “free to good home” is very attractive to an Animal Hoarder so Save Equus urges you to give your horse a $dollar value and sell your horse for that $dollar value.

 
Save Equus also urges you to thoroughly investigate the person you intend to sell your horse to, so you are assured of their income, skill and capacity to care for the horse. Save Equus also urges you to sell your horse with a simple written contract that has provision for the horse to be returned to you if it is neglected or cruelty treated.

 

Animal Hoarding stems from a variety of causes and shows itself in different ways – it is a complex issue, as is all animal cruelty in our community. The work of Save Equus has been greatly assisted by the research of The Hoarding of Animal Research Consortium in America and acknowledges the following information is from the research of this Consortium.

 

An Animal Hoarder is a person who’s behaviour towards animals is driven by a their personal psychology. This also means hoarders display a number of psychological disorders including addiction. We describe the behaviour of hoarders below to increase your awareness and ability to recognise an Animal Hoarder.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 7:49 pm and is filed under Education, Featured.