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RE: [RC] Auburn-horrible craigslister - Gerry & Cindy

These people did get rid of the horses at the Roseville auction. Some were
purchased by a rescue, the little pinto was purchased by a family for their
daughter and 2 others, she did not know who the buyers were. But the
purchase price was higher than the killer buyers go. NorCal Equine Rescue
was there and bought 23!!!!!!!! Horses. Go on their website and you will
find out all that they do. Amazing. Would you also send this to Ridecamp? I
am signed up but have yet to see my e-mails on the site. So, the horses have
been purchased and we can only hope they will be fine. They had incredible
bone and good feet. Cindy

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kitley, Carrie E Civ
USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLF
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:36 AM
To: sherman; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Auburn-horrible craigslister 

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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carrie.kitley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?


-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sherman
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 11:45 AM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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