I APPLAUD Penelope Dickinson (Letters, January 22), and all other equine lovers who want to fight the Government over plans to reintroduce the live export of horses and ponies for slaughter.
She welcomes the support, lack of compassion of the local huntsman when it is time to relocate the cherished pet to that great big paddock in the sky.
What a pity the local huntsman doesn't apply the same lack of compassion to the animals he tears apart, and to the hounds who are rewarded with a bullet between the eyes when they are five or six years old, because it is the cheapest way.
Animal lover
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