Keep an eye on your tails!!!

Pauline · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 161

I saw this on another forum and wanted to pass it on.

All NW Ohio and SE Michigan horse people:

There have been a rash of incidents where horses tail hair is being 'harvested'. The culprits are sneaking into the barns at night and cutting the tail hair to the bone. No equipment or other items are being taken. Several incidents have occurred in Fulton and Williams counties in Ohio and Hillsdale county in Michigan - those are the ones I have heard of. Police reports have been filed but as you can imagine it is not a priority for law enforcement. We need to catch the perpitrators and GET THEM PROSECUTED! At the very least for cruelty to animals.

For any of you who make tails if you could query your hair suppliers or notify them of these incidents so that if they are offered large amounts of horse hair from this area they will contact law enforcemebt.

Please everyone lets work together and get these people caught. I'm guessing it's a horse person who knows there is value in selling tail hair.

Please feel free to crosspost this information to as many forums and lists as you can.
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TX-WI · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject:

in TX around the 80's and 90's it was bad. pasture horses, stalled horses, you name it but it was more for making horsehair jewelry as it was very very popular then. Is it still popular?
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JR · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

people steal them to make those fake tails for show horses.
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rohman1 · Yearling Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Ohio

Gee am I the only one who sees the simple solution? Ban fake tails in the showring. No use anyway, dont make the horse peform any better. JMO
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summerhorse · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:00 am Post subject:

This has gone on here too, even int he backwoods. Wasn't such a lofty reason as making jewelry or false tails though. the guy had a hair fetish...
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Pauline · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 161

rohman> unless fake tails go out of style everyone will continue to use them, I don't think AQHA will ever do anything to stop it.

summerhorse> just one word, ewwwwwwww.
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