People who treat horses like this should go to jail

Laura F · Well Schooled

People who treat horses like this should go to jail

Emiry · Advanced

Can we leave them out in a field too? They are probably stuffing there face with McDonald's or maybe some high end food prepared by there cooks. So a few weeks of starving should let them see what they did....or they could just loose there house and land. I like that idea. If they loose there land and house, and maybe some money, then they cant afford to buy more land and animals!

Nikki Salo · Grand Prix

Horrible! Theres a mansion in the next town over, and they have about 1/4 of an acre fenced in and had two horses on it for a long long time, and they were bone racks, it took a few of us a long time to get the horses removed due to the high end status of the people. Then one day the horses were removed and I hadn't seen a horse out there for over a year and I always sighed a "thank God" when we drove past. Last week there was another horse out in the paddock

-- Edited by Nikki Salo on Monday 15th of November 2010 03:49:06 PM

spirithorse · Advanced

Just accidentally came across case law while researching equine abuse, which gives a national definition to abuse of the horse.

2004 Washington State Supreme Court held in 118 Wn. App. 730, State v. Zawistowski, that Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1621 (1969) definition of "pain" as "a state of physical or mental lack of well-being or physical or mental uneasiness that ranges from mild discomfort or dull distress to acute often unbearable agony."

Mykids · Yearling

Maybe I'm just old school I say tie them with a loggen chain about 4 ft long and put food out for them but put it 8 feet away and tell them if you can reach it you can eat it. To me thats what some people do to there horses fence them in with no food but green grass just out of reach due to a fence. Sorry if this is mean but I have a very hard time with so called people who do this to horses.

Marlene · Advanced

Jail is too good for people who do this to animals. They should be treated the same way their animals were. No food, out in the elements. When they've lost a similar portion of their body weight, let them hope someone comes to rescue them. Of course they should be banned for life from owning any animals. They said only seven of the animals had been surrendered? Were they hoping to keep the youngest or most valuable, turning over the old ones? They will force a mare to foal again, and start the cycle over. Disgusting.