Hot conditions mean maintaining extra water buckets and controlling insects. Emotional Commitment Many abuse cases result from children left to assume total responsibility of an animal. Parents who acquire a horse for minor children should have knowledge of proper horse care and must personally monitor the daily care and feeding of the horse. Horse ownership can give parents an opportunity to educate children about responsibility and commitment, but only when the parents commit to daily reinforcement of the lessons. This is something to think about before the situation arises.
Horse care without an emotional commitment is just a lot of hard work.
A great deal more time will be spent on care and maintenance than on riding. If riding is your only interest, it would be better to ride at a commercial riding school or stable. Save yourself the cost, labor and time of caring for a horse of your own. In addition, horses adopted from the ERL cannot be resold, given away, or used for breeding. Complete and return an Equine Rescue League Preliminary Adoption Application.