Charity’s fundings boost to help with horse health checks

Charity’s fundings boost to help with horse health checks

By Maurice Garvey

MY LOVELY Horse Rescue are preparing to roll out free gelding and health checks for horses, exclusively in Ballyfermot, Tallaght and Clondalkin, after receiving a funding boost.

The charity organisation respond to reports of neglected, abused equines. To the best of their resources, they rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home horses, ponies, donkeys, and other abandoned animals.

Ninth Lock Canal - horses in background 

Horse owners in Ballyfermot, Clondalkin and Tallaght are encouraged to contact MLHR for a free gelding and free health check.

Once they determine who is interested in having their horse gelded (castrated), the group will arrange a location and time for a vet and farrier to be on site.

In January, volunteers in the group were horrified to discover horses grazing alongside rubbish tips on the canal beside Labre Park, some of whom were standing on broken bottles and eating rubbish.

Following this, in March, volunteers from MLHR held a “very productive meeting” with Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project and local horse owners from Labre Park.

The focus of the meeting was to “come up with ideas on how to improve the welfare of horses in the area,” according to MLHR.

Another meeting is scheduled for April 1, with local politicians, BTAP, MLHR, and local horse owners due to attend.

In February, MLHR met with councillors and local volunteers in Tallaght, to look at ways to improve horse welfare in the South Dublin County Council area.

MLHR are currently in the process of preparing a presentation for South Dublin County Council – proposing ways to improve horse welfare, to educate young horse owners, and to create a centre where people can learn horse care and rescue.

The group also met community gardaí and are preparing to roll out gelding and health checks for horses in Tallaght and Clondalkin.

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