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RE: [RC] Auburn-horrible craigslister - Kitley, Carrie E Civ USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLF

Has anyone ventured to alert the HSUS about a possible investigation of these 
people?  I'm not sure how the situation would exactly lend itself to warrant 
this, but isn't it worth a try?  My fear is, they will eventually end up 
starving them just to save money.

Carrie Kitley
30th Medical Group, Vandenberg AFB
DMLSS?Database Sustainment Specialist (DSS) 
CACI?International Inc? www.caci.com
dsn?276-1077, Comm (805) 606-1077
fax dsn?276-1179
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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:45 AM
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Subject: [RC] Auburn-horrible craigslister 

Their ad was different last week, had two "horses and sheep for sale" and 
another "half Arab half APHA for sale". My neighbor is looking for a small safe 
sound horse for trail riding so I inquired, they said the horse would be good 
for a beginner rider, so we went and looked the next day. These people know 
NOTHING about horses, I have no idea how they ended up with all of them. The 
woman stood by and watched while I had to show the man how to bridle the 13H 
pretty little pinto. The horses looked well fed, except for this little guy, he 
had many, many scrapes on him (the guy said he followed one of the other horses 
thru a fence) and every other horse there picked on him. The rest of the horses 
are mostly geldings, the little pinto they'd had for only 6 mos., the others I 
didn't ask.



We asked the man to ride him first as we were not willing to risk a bucking 
horse and we'd already had owners showing their "well trained, child safe 
horses" put on a bucking show.  He was very hesitant to try to ride, but did 
get on the little guy. Although he was gentle for a lead line pony, he was 
obviously not trained and didn't have a clue what to do when someone was on his 
back unless he was being led and he did that willingly and without any fuss 
about tarps etc. He peed a very dark, murky yellow, not orange, red or coffee 
color. I inquired as to the availability of water and he said the horse drank 
lots, there was a full 80gal tank with a float on it that I then saw the horses 
drinking out of. He had hay there and mentioned the high price and I told him 
to go buy from a farmer he'd get a better price. He has a flatbed and said he'd 
do that. I told him he needed to find someone who wants to train a horse to buy 
the little pinto.



None of the horses there had been bred/born there, but due to a stallion 
running with the group there was at least one pregnant mare which he offered to 
let us try. He'd never ridden her. Then he said there was another that was 
"supposedly" good, but he'd never ridden him either. He had an old horse that 
looked like she had back/hip problems that he said he'd rescued and put more 
than 100 pounds on her already, but she still had a set of shoes on and her 
feet only very slightly overgrown, so I think she hadn't been there long. I 
have no idea why these people have horses or where they came from, they didn't 
breed them. I think their minds aren't quite right and maybe they go around 
collecting free horses that they thought they could sell? or maybe they picked 
them up at the auction and now realize the incredible financial burden of 
having 9 or so horses and have to take them back to where they got them? Who 
knows...



Then there was the party stating they had room for a rescue. When I inquired as 
to whether they wanted a riding horse or pasture ornament, the poster flipped 
out that I would dare call any animal an ornament...blah, blah, blah. I told 
her that was a well known term of endearment commonly used to express the fact 
that the horse can still adorn the pasture even though it is not ridden. She 
was looking for a nice free riding horse, obviously didn't have much horse 
knowledge either.



And there's my craig's list stories...



Kathy


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