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Post by qhflicka on Nov 20, 2009 15:08:34 GMT -5
LARGE ANIMAL EUTHANASIA & BURIAL - $100 (Yakima & Surrounding areas)
Mountain View Large Animal Burial
Are you looking for an alternative to the rendering truck or land fill?
We offer live animal pickup, euthanasia, and burial in a large pasture setting.
We are GENTLE and HUMANE in all aspects of handling your animal.
For more information call 509-945-5422
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Post by jennywho on Nov 20, 2009 15:52:31 GMT -5
Even the renderer here is $350, but I would worry about how they were euth'd personally. Has anyone used them, they've been advertising for about 6 months now.
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Post by cardicorgi on Nov 20, 2009 16:47:08 GMT -5
Sounds like they might be like Oasis Farms in Oregon - you haul (or they pick up) to the farm, euth is by gun, and then they bury the horse on their farm(?). Same price, anyway.
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Post by qhflicka on Nov 20, 2009 23:13:59 GMT -5
I worry about the location - Isn't there a Wayne in Yakima who shoots horses and leaves them to rot in his pasture for Coyote food?
I hope this is not a scam. Pay someone to take your horse to humanely euthanise, meantime it ends up on a feedlot?
Does anyone know of this operation? I suppose I could call and try and find out if this is legit or not.
But then again unscrupulous scum are also good liars.
I worry when one does a telephone number search and there are no results - And they have been advertising for 6 months? Why an unlisted phone number?
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Post by qhflicka on Nov 20, 2009 23:23:57 GMT -5
The Pasco, WA landfill charges $55 a ton and accepts any livestock carcass - horses, cattle, pigs, llamas, goats. (A 1000lb horse will be about $27)
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Post by jennywho on Nov 21, 2009 0:47:21 GMT -5
My concerns were the same as yours QHflicka
The Yakima landfill charges $24.05 for carcass disposal for a horse. The only thing is that you have to be or have with you a yakima county resident. However, the two times I went they never asked for ID. The guys at the landfill are VERY KIND and PROFESSIONAL. I never had to get out of the truck.
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Post by selahcowgirl on Feb 17, 2010 13:03:07 GMT -5
My cousin used them last night to take a 23 year old horse. The mare had a melanoma causing colic. She had been seen by a vet and the prognosis was that she was not going to make it. So the mare was given some banamine and bute right before the service came.
They were really nice to deal with, quiet, compassionate and down to earth. They allowed us to take all the time in the world with the mare before they took her off. The woman agreed to pull shoes, and get mane and tail hair from the mare for my cousin.
They brought their two little boys who jumped out of the truck, fed the horse an apple then disepeared back into the truck for the 45 minutes it took to say goodbye.
The wife is the one who came up with the idea, she is a farmers wife and had a bad experience with other services and thought that no one else should go through what she had. My cousin was told that they could shoot her for less money, but my cousin decided to eauth. I was told I was welcome to follow in my car and be their with the mare. but I had a test today I needed to study for.
All in all this was a great experience for us on the hard end. It was easier for my cousins to call them then to have a vet come out and eauth leaving them to figure out what to do with the body. I would recomend them to anyone who does not have their own property, or trailer.
If you have your doubts I suggest that you call the number and speak with her.
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Post by jaybird on Feb 17, 2010 14:53:59 GMT -5
I guess I would want some kind of assurance that the horse was really put down. Am I correct in understanding that they offered you the option of following them to their farm so you could be there in person during the euthanization? And that they can do both chemical and gunshot euthanization? Do you have to have a vet license to do a chemical euth?
I only ask these questions because this would be a brilliant way to make a lot of money...if you were dishonest and just turned around and sold the horses to a feedlot instead of euthing.
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Post by schwung on Feb 17, 2010 15:20:09 GMT -5
Yeah, still suspicious, and I would encourage anyone who is actually considering using this service to actually bring the horse to them or follow them back and watch the horse be put down. If you cannot do it yourself, find a friend or someone you know and trust (NOT a stranger off the internet) to go. Only vets can put a horse down using chemical euthanasia so I would expect that if they are paying a vet for that service that the vet's name could be provided as a reference.
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