[HairOfTheDog]

I still turn into her driveway once in awhile, just to make sure she doesn't have horses on the place again.

They were as bony and their feet were as bad, as the worst cases you see on Animal Cops.

The hose she had that would reach out across the driveway to the horses was so broken up from driving over it frozen that no water came out the other end. And this was like ~June~. They hadn't had water in a long long time, except what they could sip out of puddles when it rained. I'm amazed they survived it.

And it wasn't that she didn't have the money to care for them. She was working, she had three fat dogs that she obviously couldn't neglect because they lived in the house with her.

The people had taken a year contract to go work on the Alaska Pipeline or something. They were out of state with no way to know what was happening. Yeah - they needed to know.

[ShakeNJake]

You did the right thing, Hair. I am glad that you had the courage and fortitude to do it. Most people just pass by and either never notice, or think "someone should do something" but don't take action themselves.

I have seen many bad, bad situations in rescue. I am certainly not naive about what people can and will do. So, I thank you on behalf of those horses, those owners, and all my rescue friends who would applaud your involvement as well.

[tuffydoodle]

She should have a police record for all that. It's really nice of you to keep tabs on her, somebody sure needs to.

I was reading a book written by a vet, telling of his experiences. One story was a horse that was kept in a small, dry round pen that had tons of green grass on the outside of the pen. The owner called the vet out because the horse wasn't doing well. The vet immediately sized up the situation, seeing that all the horse had to eat was some moldy hay. Told the owner to let the horse out on the grass. The vet went out a few weeks later to check on the horse and the horse had died. All around the outside of the round pen you could see where the horse had eaten down the grass he could get to. He had starved to death. The vet said that was the maddest he's ever been.