Merlin said:
The pic in the article was not of the Hughes farm; it was the pasture at Pats farm where several of the horses were transferred to.
I just spoke with Josimmon, and this is not the farm she was referring to. She spoke with someone today about it who was involved with the rescue of these 18 horses, and it is being looked into.
I hope his Hughes guy gets treated as badly as his horses did, and then some!
Well I hope for the horses sakes they were emaciated because of nutritional reasons. They may at least have a chance. I knew a guy once that had a horse and he just bragged all the time about how great this horse, Jasmine was. I just had to see her. When I got to the place where he was keeping her he was just raving about the pastures, I agree they did look great. I thought wow I wish I had grass like that. And then I saw Jasmine. She was a beautiful 4 year old bay and seemed to be such a doll. But she seemed down kind of just standing in the run in. Her weight was low and I could not figure out why with so much pasture she would look like that. When I asked him what was up with her weight he went on about how she had been a little sick lately. I asked when was the last time you wormed her, he kind of squirmed around and said that a friend had helped in worm her a couple of months ago. I looked at her manure and I could not believe what I saw. It was so red that I thought she was bleeding, as I looked closer I realized it was not blood it was parasites. I insisted that he let me take her to my barn, telling him that the pasture must be infested, I would of about told him anything to get her away from him. I had the vet meet me at my barn and she started her on the 5 day worming program, but she also did a blood test. I thought this was strange and asked why? She said that she thought that her intestines were probably perferated from such a heavy infestation of worms and that the blood test would show how much damage there was. The outcome was not good and she did not last but a couple of months, I just could not get her healthy.
She lived on daily doses of the pepto stuff for horses because her stomach was eaten up with ulcers. It makes me so mad that some stupid person decides they have to have a horse and they don't have a clue how to care for it. Alot of times the damage is irreversible.
In this case the pictures you just posted some seem like they are young horses. I could just scream.
I do want to know why My Hughes is getting off scott free? And can't wait to hear the explanation for that. I remember last year a guy in Hollywood had 5 horses taken from him and he was arrested and tried. He was heavily fined, and put on probation, as I recall.
negligence makes me so fumin' mad
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OMG, how horrible. Thank goodness somebody rescued them before it was too late and by the looks of them, it wasn't a moment too soon.