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RE: [RC] Starving Horses, need help - Laurie UnderwoodIs there no local SPCA or animal shelter in your area? I know parts of Georgia do not have such services ... Laurie Underwood -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:25 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Starving Horses, need help Please Reply to: Paula Juergens cowlitztractor@xxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Hi All, I'm back once again. I went and picked up 6 horses today from Skamania County. For those of you outside of the region it's in Southwestern Washington, Right along the Columbia River, From there you are about straight across from Mt Hood in Oregon, and for most folks, Mt Hoods about the only thing people can see since the whole area is thick mossy rain forest. Anyway. enough geography lessons. The horses I picked up were a friends, He temporarily lost them while getting a divorce from his common law wife.She suddenly kicked him out one day, tossed a restraining order at him, and moved right in with the landlord next door. Repeatedly several of us have voiced ALOT of concern for the horses well being and environment. For good reason. The woman that is holding them I'd always considered an acquaintance in good standing, but never quite as much of a friend as her counter part. He's 24 years older then me and has 30 more years in horses, so I look to him as a mentor of sorts, for advice at times (and he's a heck of a good farrier). Anyway, She has at least 16 horses up there, no job, she's being prosecuted now for L&I fraud,Food Stamp Fraud, welfare fraud, back child support, so on and so forth to name a few. She has 2 past felony convictions for animal abuse and neglect. So now, none of us have any idea how she intends to feed them,,,obviously by the ones we picked up today, she hasn't. This has been voiced dozens of times to the judges, county commissioners, Animal control(long story here), the police, and any other person of any power or sway, that would listen. Everybody but animal control is powerless, and with out animal control blowing the horn,,, nobody can or will do anything. The animal control agent is one of her good friends and rumored to have been in the sack with this womans now boyfriend & landlord who as of last week had been the Chief of Police but was fired,,for more compalints then you can shake a stick at. So now niether of them have money to feed the at least 16 horses she has left up there,,, most of which are pregnant mares, bred to foal in September and October when the rains start,, this is all happening on 2 acres and with no barn, no feed, and no jobs between them, and no-one interested in advocating for these horses to get them out before they starve even more and drop starving foals in the rain! The geldings, 1 mare and 2 stallions we picked up today are skin and bones, and they are the easy keepers of the bunch. cakes of mud and manure shedding off in dingle berries, Hooves in various conditions from badly broken and cracked to needing a size 4 shoe,, and not a one weighing over 600 lbs, even at 15'2 hands and being foundation appy.... I was in absolute shock and set into tears at seeing these immaciated horses trying to reach through the electric wire of the make shift pick up pen for a nibble of anything!They are so weak I had to just crawl down the winding roads in hopes they could stay standing in the trailer long enough to make it home. Jim has offered to just pay the feed store to deliver the hay and just give it to her to feed, Unfortunately it is concidered third party contact,and illegal to the restaining order and he would be thrown in jail for it. So still these pregnant mares will starve. Most of them are in the 16-22 year old range and are retired dude string horses that were just supposed to retire as they had put in their years! This is wrong, cruel, and God help me,,, this has got to be illegal. I need to know how to go above the local animal control agent to get them help. Some body else has got to care! These horses have a good home with 32 acres of grass and a guy who loves them, but this gal is nuts and doing this just to hurt the person they rightfully belong to. He's not perfect, but he's an ok human being that has always taken better care of his horses then he will himself when things get tight, His horses always eat first, and never junk. Who do I contact to get a search order to get the legal system to advocate for those horses? PLEASE>>> PLEASE PLEASE these horses need help in a not so helpful legal system. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. 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