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Member:
mrose

Posted on Friday, Jan 2, 2009 - 6:01 pm:

This is on the abuse/neglect case where an older woman and her sons were charged with starving and neglecting their large herd of horses in the Carolinas. All of the horses were very well bred, and even included a past National Champion stallion.

https://www.thestate.com/local/story/632457.html
Member:
frances

Posted on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 - 11:09 am:

The possibility mentioned that these horses could be returned to their previous neglectful owners is horrendous.
Member:
mrose

Posted on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 - 12:08 pm:

Agreed! I would assume they would be at least be monitored, but who knows. The entire case, along with other such cases, is very disturbing on more than one front.
Member:
zarr

Posted on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 - 2:38 pm:

Even the horse that were recently dugout of the snow where they had been left to starve by owners may go back.Able who was ridden almost to death and left for dead may go back.The key word is may these cases are only as strong as the state laws allow Unless the public pays attention and demands justice! Which does often work.Take the mare who was shot 6 times and left for dead in the Arizona outback. She picked herself up and walk to the nearest house knocked on the front door and got herself Help! He is being prosecuted! Yeah!
Member:
mrose

Posted on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 - 3:06 pm:

Boy! what a horse that mare is. I never heard about her; often if it happens in AZ we read about it here in so. UT. Don't you wish it was in our power to help all the abused? Animals and people alike? All we can do is do the best we can with the ones around us, and that we know of. As with most of you, it is beyond my comprehension. A horse, an animal, a child - they are all our responsibilities and their needs should be equal, if not before our own imo. I know the economy is rough, but there have always been plenty of cases of abuse regardless of the state of the economy. It goes deeper than lack of money. I know there are exceptions, like the elderly who no longer have the mental or physical means to care for a pet, or who have become deranged and no longer are aware of the pet's needs. Other than those cases, I think there is something deeply wrong emotionally and mentally and morally with one who will abuse either a child or an animal...or another living thing of any sort. I was raised poor; many of my my relatives were poor farmers. I can remember many dinners that consisted of beans and cornbread. Yet, the animals were always fed and cared for, whether they were the pigs and chickens, or the cows, horses and mules. O.K. off the "sermon" mode now and back to chores. Sorry!
Member:
zarr

Posted on Saturday, Jan 3, 2009 - 4:39 pm:

No sorry needed Sara, just heartfelt agreement! During a football game yesterday(was there anything else) I watched a commercial put on the the Universities and the little kids very promoting all the concepts we were raised with that have been missing for soooooo long Perhaps there are generations coming that won't be so consumed with self!
Graces story is on Google from about a year ago I forgot to add she walked herself several miles to find that house and she is now fully recovered!
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