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http://www.animallawcoalition.com/horse-slaughter/article/424

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http://www.kvsun.com/articles/2008/11/13/kv_life/doc491c5a47d5554349463307.t

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• Horse Slaughter An Unnecessary Evil
• Stop the Slaughter of American Horses: Chief Looking Horse Ad for Horse-Protection.org
• Horse Slaughter Facts: Horse-Protection.org
• How Some See the American Horse: Horse-Protection.org
• The Truth About Horse Slaughter: The National Horse Protection Coalition
• Pope Benedict XVI: PETA’s Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
• Below...a Mexican slaughterhouse.  Stabbing the horses with an ice pick 10-13 times on average to sever the spinal cord, so they cannot move while being butchered. Do these horses look familiar?  They could very well have taken care of your young child in a summer camp right here in New York! Ask yourself if this is acceptable, if these horses look old and useless and most importantly, ask yourself, does this look like any sort of EUTHANASIA?  Now ask yourself, where are your horses???
  
• Below Baby draft horses literally stuffed into a trailer heading for slaughter.  Trailer overturned.  Hours spent trying to free the live babies from under the dead ones.  The transport to slaughter is even more horrific that the slaughter itself. Ask yourself as you look into the eyes of this innocent young horse...did he deserve this? Transportation of horses to slaughter for rich european consumption MUST END NOW!!! Help us to help the horses! No, this little baby did NOT survive.
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• Below is a mare trying to comfort her foal as they stand next in line to be butchered...
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• The photo above should haunt anyone claiming themselves to be human.  What it does not show, though is the transport, the auction, the kill pens, and the suffering prior to this moment.  Please educate yourself by reading just one of hundreds of thousands of auction nightmare accounts.  Change the world for the horses.  Educate yourself and then speak up.
   
  Sugarcreek, October 17, 2008
   
  by: Anne Russek
  In the past few weeks there have been several stories about the continued
  abuses and lack of regulatory enforcement at the Sugarcreek auction in Ohio.
  First we had the story of the two weanlings that were rescued by Rachael and
  Amy. The filly had been brought to the auction with a broken hip and a
  broken ankle. After her rescue, while being examined at a local veterinary
  clinic, she was also discovered to have a severely torn vulva. The filly was
  humanely euthanised at the clinic due to the severity of her injuries. Leroy
  Baker , the owner of Sugarcreek, refused to disclose the name of the
  individual who had brought the filly to the auction in this condition. You
  can read the entire heartbreaking story and view photo's of the little filly
  "Rememberence" here
  http://forums.delphiforums.com/alexbrown/messages?msg=29138.1
  One week later, Vicki was on a day trip to the town of Sugarcreek
  and decided to stop at the auction on Monday. She quickly learned that a
  cattle auction was underway, but she happened to wander into the pen area
  since she had spotted a few horses left over from the Friday auction.
  Unfortunately, she happened upon a dead pile which contained two dead horses
  and two dead cows. Incredibly , one of the "dead" horses began flailing his
  legs and weakly trying to whinny. Despite repeated efforts to obtain help
  for this unfortunate animal, she was unable to contact any humane officials,
  and the auction management showed no particular concern about the
  situation. Vicki did take pictures however, and hopefully charges can still
  be filed. You can read Vicki's firsthand account and view photo's of what
  she saw at Sugarcreek here
   
  http://www.bordercollie.org/boards/index.php?showtopic=21308
  In recent weeks several racetracks have adopted a" zero tolerance"
  policy relating to racehorses being sent to slaughter via auctions and
  direct to kill venues. All tracks under the Magna partnership are now
  operating under a no slaughter policy. Since Thistledowns is a Magna track,
  and Sugarcreek has often been the destination for many Thistledowns
  horses, I decided to go to Sugarcreek on Oct 17. I also had information that
  a particular horse from Mountaineer might be at the auction, and for reasons
  I am not able to elaborate on in this report , I chose this date. A good
  freind of mine, Linda, took it upon herself to raise the money so that I
  might rescue this horse if he was at the auction. Linda raised funds for his
  purchase, transport, and board. She did this in within 24 hours of my
  departure.
  I arrived at Sugarcreek at 8:30 AM Friday. As usual, at this early hour ,
  the pens are easy to navigate. I went into each pen that had horses and
  began "flipping lips". The first few horses I looked at were
  standardbreds, and the only thoroughbred I found had a very hard to read
  tatoo. I walked to the last pen in the back of the auction which had twenty
  or more horses left over from the previous weeks auction. These were all
  Leroy Bakers ( owner of Sugarcreek) horses designated for slaughter.
  Several of the horses in this pen had profuse nasal discharges and one horse
  had an obvious case of strangles. I quickly spotted a chestnut, Hip # 404
  and recorded his tatoo. His name was No Problem For Dino. He was last owned
  and trained by Ronald Puhl. The pen across the aisle from these horses was
  full of snotty nosed cattle. Unlike my other trips to Sugarcreek, these
  cattle were quite friendly. It was very easy for me to reach through the
  board fence and pet their heads. The floor of the pen was covered in manure,
  there was hay and water, but as usual, the pens are so overcrowded many of
  the animals never get near the hay or water.
  I walked outside and saw a corral made up of portable gates. This pen was
  also full of last weeks horses. There was a round hay feeder in the middle
  of this very muddy pen. The water trough was bone dry, and so I filled
  it with a hose that was lying on the ground. I wondered to myself how many
  Sugarcreek employees walked past that trough and the hose without ever
  bothering to give those horses water. As soon as I turned the hose on, the
  horses began pushing and biting each other to get a drink. The weaker and
  less dominant horses stayed far back, patiently waiting their turn. I
  couldn't help but notice all the racing plates that were lying in the mud in
  this corral. I also noticed many more horses with heavy nasal discharge. As
  I walked to the back of the corral I saw a gray horse with a completely
  swollen right front leg. He could not walk on it, and his body was covered
  with bite marks.
   
  I climbed into the corral and ran my hand down his leg to see if it was
  swollen from a cut or laceration. I felt no cuts, and my thoughts were that
  his knee was broken. He was very gentle, very responsive to my touch. I went
  to the hay feeder and brought some hay back over to him which he immediately
  devoured. Of course, once you give hay to one, you then spend quite a bit
  of time making piles all across the pen to keep everyone from fighting or
  taking it away from the weak and sick horses. The saddest ones are the
  horses that can't eat because they are either in too much pain, or too
  sick. Others won't eat because they are in too much stress. These are the
  horses that have given up. These are the horses that seem to
  understand this is the end of the line.
  I walked back into the building and came upon the auction veterinarian,
  Melissa Reddick, drawing coggins using the "gate method". This is a process
  by which a group of horses without halters are put into a long aisleway with
  a swinging gate at each end. The horses are herded down the aisle by the
  Amish with long whips and then they are singled out individually by being
  pinned between the gate and the sides of the aisleway. Reddick then climbs
  up the rungs of the gate, reaches over and sticks the horse with a needle to
  draw blood. If the horse thrashes, which most of them do, the Amish smack
  and holler at them, and apply more pressure on the gate which freaks the
  horse out more, which results in more yelling and more beating. Eventually
  the horse freezes in fear and the vet gets her blood. It makes absolutely no
  sense why the auction does not require horses to arrive with halters on so
  that coggins may be drawn in a safer and less stressful manner. Most of the
  abuse that occurs at Sugarcreek is because the horses do not have
  halters and the Amish beat them to move them instead of leading them. Horses
  slipping and falling on the concrete floors as they are being herded from
  pen to pen is common.
  While I was watching Melissa Reddick draw the coggins on Hip # 941, I
  heard her tell her assistant that the horse was not fit for travel because
  of a heavy discharge from its nostrils. I tried to find out after the sale
  if the horse had been shipped, but Leroy Baker does not have to give out
  any information if he does not want to. I also wondered why Reddick had
  decided that particular horse was not fit for travel when there were at
  least fifty other horses at the auction with discharge worse than # 941.
  I went to the area where the horses are offloaded from the trailers. As
  usual, any stud ponies or small intact horses are put in very narrow
  standing stalls that resemble stockades. These stalls are so tight and
  confining the horses can only shift their weight one step forward or
  backwards. I saw horses put in these stalls as early as 9 AM and stand in
  them until they sold at 2 PM. They had no hay, no water. When they urinate
  , they pee on their legs. Sometime during the morning, a very tiny mini was
  placed in one of these standing stalls. This poor animal was as sick as any
  horse I have ever seen. Its mane was impossibly tangled with burrs, it was
  skinny, and its entire face was crooked and deformed because of what
  appeared to be a sinus infection. Profuse snot was dripping from its nose. I
  went to a pen where there was hay and brought a handful back to the pony. I
  unlatched the heavy iron bolt that kept the door closed and placed the hay
  on the urine soaked floor in front of the pony. She weakly put her head down
  to eat but it appeared she could not chew and swallow.
   
  As more horses were arriving at the auction, the sounds of horses being
  kicked in overcrowded pens becomes more frequent. I walked over to one
  particularly noisy pen and saw a gelding who had obviously been proud cut
  trying to mount mares and kicking the daylights out of the other geldings.
  He was so aggressive the entire pen was in constant motion. I then noticed a
  bay horse with a swollen left leg and a large laceration across her knee.
  The yellow pus running down her leg was apparent from twenty feet away. She
  was frozen in fear because of the commotion all around her, and the
  aggressive gelding was working his way towards her. I entered the pen and
  attempted to catch the gelding. It wasn't easy, but a man standing outside
  the pen watching me reached over the fence in an effort to keep the gelding
  in one corner of the pen. Fortunately I caught him with a halter I had
  brought with me, and I led him out of the pen and put him into a box stall
  by himself. I gave him some hay and went back to find the injured horse
  which we later identified as a standardbred. I put the halter on the mare
  and slowly led her to the gate. A young woman saw me and offered to help
  by keeping the other horses away from me so I could get the mare out of the
  pen. About this time an Amish employee came over to watch me. The young
  woman saw him and said loud enough from him to hear " We're moving this
  horse because we don't want her to get kicked.". He looked at her leg and
  said, "She didn't get knicked here, she come in that way". He then turned
  and walked away. I thanked the woman and put the mare in another empty box
  stall and gave her hay.
   
  At this time I decided to call the local humane officer to see if anything
  could be done for the gary horse with the injured leg, the bay mare with the
  knee, and the pitiful mini. I called the Sugarcreek sherriffs office (
  330-339-2000)to get the number for animal control. I was told to call
  330-339-8968 and ask for Dawn Smitely. I called the number and got an
  answering service who told me they would contact her. While I waited, I saw
  Fred Bauer, a well known kill buyer back up to one of the unloading ramps.
  Thinking he may have thoroughbreds from the track , I walked over to see
  what he had. When Fred opened the back door of his very large trailer, I saw
  he only had five or six horses. The first one was a small chestnut horse
  that looked like it could be a two year old thoroughbred. Fred put him in
  a box stall directly across from his trailer. I went into the stall and
  Bauer watched me, I asked him if it was a thoroughbred as I was flipping his
  lip. Bauer said "No, he's no thoroughbred, I got him off an Amish fellow,
  says he's a real dangerous horse.". I commented that he didn't seem very
  typical of the kind of horse the Amish usually send to auction and Bauer
  shrugged his shoulders and offered that the horse was dangerous because he
  was " probably the result of a $10.00 Amish castration .".
  About this time Kathy and Diana met up with me and we went to every pen
  looking for thoroughbreds. I showed them the three injured horses. Kathy
  said that the thoroughbreds from Mountaineer would not arrive until the sale
  was ready to start, and the throughbreds we did identify had been left over
  from the previous Friday. We were able to get good readings on two or
  three, and had difficulty with two or three others. The same gelding I had
  identified earlier, No Problem For Dino, made it very obvious we were not
  leaving without him. Kathy said that even though he would not sell through
  the ring, she felt sure she could buy him privately after the sale.
  Kathy and Diana went to wait for the Mounatineer horses and I made another
  call to animal control. The answering service told me they had no way to
  page the humane offficer, Dawn Smitely. Worried that she would never get
  the message, I called a county commisioner , Mr.Abbuhl. I had been advised
  by an Ohio Department of Agriculture official, Dr. Darmen, that all abuse at
  auctions must go through the local humane officer, and so I decided to
  follow the chain of command to get through to Ms. Smitely. Mr. Abbuhl told
  me that Dawn would be at the auction within the hour.
  I went back to the unloading area just as the auction began selling the
  horses. Not long after, the Mountaineer horses arrived. Ther were five of
  them, all without halters, all wearing racing plates. Their shoes made
  sparks on the concrete floors as they scrambled to keep their balance as
  they were herded into a pen closest to the auction ring. They were a very
  attractive group. Four of the five were easy to catch and read their tatoos.
  The large bay, with an obvious bowed tendon, Hip# 406, was the hardest to
  catch. He was beside himself with worry. No matter how many rescues I go on,
  I am always torn apart by the look of confusion in the eyes of the
  thoroughbreds. They are desperate for someone to lead them to a place of
  safety. While we were still reading tattoos, and Amish man opened the gate
  to their pen and herded them into the aisleway so they could have their
  blood drawn. Like so many other horses before them, they were pinned in the
  gate while Reddick drew blood. Every one of these thoroughbreds off the
  track have a valid cogggins in the racing office, I have no idea why the
  kill buyers who pick them up at the track don't bring the coggins with them.
  I suspect it is because the name of the last owner and trainer is on them.
  Not to mention, it would be harder for the track management to ignore the
  slaughter pipeline.
  About this time I noticed a Sugarcreek police car pull into the parking
  lot. I decided to go check on the standardbred with the hurt knee and was
  shocked to see her being herded down an aisleway on her way to the auction
  ring. She went through the ring in less than 20 seconds, was purchased by
  Leroy Baker, and put in the kill pen with twenty or more other horses. I
  went to her pen and as I was going in to check on her, I was stopped by Dr.
  Reddick, a policeman and Dawn Smitely. Dawn asked me if my name was Anne,
  and I told her "yes". She asked me what was the problem. I told them that
  there were three horses at the auction who were obviously brought to the
  auction by their owners suffering from either abuse or neglect. I offered to
  go into the pen and show them Hip#807. I led her over and Dr. reddick
  immediately stated the leg was not broken. I asked her how she could make
  that call when the knee was swollen three times its normal size with a deep
  laceration and yellow pus dripping down her leg. Reddick said it can't be
  broken because she is standing on it. I then pointed out that if someone had
  given her enough Banamine and bute she would be able to stand, but only an
  x-ray could determine if it was broken. The policeman asked Redick if that
  was true and Reddick acknowledged she couldn't say for sure without an
  x-ray. I told the policeman that since the horse was standing in a kill pen,
  I wanted to make sure she would not be loaded on a trailer and forced to
  ship thousands of miles. Reddick said she would not okay her for transport.
  Reddick went on a rant about how it was not her job to check every horse ,
  but rather she was only responsible for taking coggins. She said that going
  in the pens was too dangerous, and she had recently been badly injured and
  was not going to risk her life checking for abused horses.
  I then told them there was another horse outside. We walked over to the
  broken legged gray horse. This time , everyone took a step back. Dr. Reddick
  told the policeman she had never seen this horse before, it had been here
  for over a week, and she would never issue a health certificate for him to
  be transported. The policeman asked if his leg was broken and she said she
  did not know. About this time one of Bakers thugs came from out of nowhere.
  He demanded to know what we were doing and said the horse was private
  property and Baker could do whatever he wanted with him. Reddick explained
  the horse could not travel. The thug said that it was not Bakers fault the
  horse was in this condition, that the horse had been brought to the auction
  looking like this. I asked if that meant the horse had been standing in the
  pen with a broken leg for over a week and the thug said it was none of my
  business. Dawn, ( humane officer) said that Baker could not be held
  responsible since he had bought the horse at auction, not brought the horse
  to auction. I suggested we could find out who had brought the horse here if
  we asked Baker to check his sales records and the thug said that was not
  going to happen. Dawn indicated to me that if I filed a complaint Baker
  would have to reveal the name and I said , "fine, I'll file a complaint.". I
  then told Dawn there was still another horse we needed to look at.
  We then all walked back inside to the standing stalls. I removed the steel
  bar to the door and showed them the mini, cowering in the back of her filthy
  stall, with her deformed face. Dr. Reddick immediately diagnosed her as
  having a severe sinus infection. I found it amazing that she could
  immediately recognize a severe sinus infection within thirty seconds but
  could not acknowledge a horse may have a broken leg when it was swollen
  three times its normal size. At any rate, it was once again agreed that the
  horse was brought to the auction in this condition, and that the owner was
  guilty of abuse or neglect. At this point, the police officer was showing
  obvious signs of resentment. He did not want to be here, and he just wanted
  to know whether or not a complaint was going to be made. Once again, I told
  him I was wiling to make that complaint. Dr. Reddick then began to state her
  case. She said , again, that her job was not to tell owners they could not
  bring their abused horses to the auction. ( Dawn Smitely later confided to
  me the exact opposite, Dawn said that if Reddick would call her when these
  types of horses showed up at the auction, Dawn could prosecute). Reddick
  also went on to say that if the abused and neglected horses were not
  admitted to the auction, they would only be abused further at the owners
  home. I couldn't decide if Reddick did not know the law or felt she had the
  right to interpret the law to suit her own agenda. I told Dr. Reddick that
  is precisely why we have animal abuse laws, so that the offenders are
  prosecuted. Dr. Reddick said I was living a fantasy and that she would
  not/could not uphold the law. Dr. Reddick then proclaimed that the single
  biggest illegal activity taking place at the Sugarcreek Auction was the fact
  that every Friday , after the sale, dealers were leaving the auction with
  trailer loads of horses and crossing state lines without health certificates
  or coggins papers. She said that DOT was not doing their job. This opinion
  was verified by Dawn Smitely. Amazingly enough, even though the police
  officer heard both of these authorities tell him about the illegal activity
  that would be occurring that very afternoon, he made no effort to call DOT.
  I also spoke to Reddick about the weanling filly from the auction two weks
  before. Reddick acknowledged that the filly had a brokem hip and ankle, but
  when I told her about the torn vulva, she said " that filly did not have a
  torn vulva when she came in, she got that after she got here.".
  I told the officer and Dawn that I wanted to file a complaint against the
  owners of the three horses we had looked at, who had brought these injured
  animals to the auction. The officer commented he should be home by now, but
  agreed to go with Dawn to speak with Baker.
  The sale was winding down but I noticed a young man leading an exceptionally
  attractive bay mare in from the parking lot. She had a leather halter with
  her name plate, Foxey Nokea. I asked the man why he was bringing the mare
  to this auction. He told me that the horse belonged to his partner's
  girlfriend who was going to vet school and could no longer afford to keep
  her. I asked if he knew this was a slaughter auction. He acted
  uncomfortable, but said "she won't go for slaughter, I am going to walk her
  in the ring myself". I asked him why he thought that would make a diference
  but he said that it would. I asked him what he wanted for her, and he said
  he did not know, but whatever she brought, the partner would take. I told
  him that I could find a buyer for her, but would need a few days. He said
  they could not wait. I then offered to pay her board if he took her back
  home until I found a buyer. He said he would ask his partner. I told him I
  would be around after the sale to give him some money, but to please not let
  her go to the kill buyers. He told me that would not happen.
  By now, Dawn and the policeman returned from talking to Baker. Dawn said
  that Baker was going to shoot the gray horse. Dawn said that Baker was going
  to put a bandage on the standardbreds leg, and if it was not better by the
  morning, he would shoot her also. (I offered to pay for x-rays but Baker
  refused.)
  The mini had been purchased by a couple for $30.00, and they were going to
  take her home and try and save her. Dawn asked me if I was satisfied. I told
  Dawn that I not only was not satisfied, I wanted to know what follow up she
  intended to do. Dawn said if there was no complaint, as far as she was
  concerned, the investigation was over. I told Dawn I wanted to file a
  complaint, and I wanted her to do a follow -up on all three horses. Dawn
  was not happy with my resquest, and the policeman was real unhappy with my
  request. Dawn said that this was why she hated coming to the auction. She
  said she was underpaid, ( $400.00 per month) and she was tired of being
  yelled at by Baker. She also mentioned a five year old son but I have no
  idea what he had to do with the situation . The police officer said he was
  going home, and if I wanted to file a complaint I had to go to the
  Sugarcreek police station but the only other officer who could register my
  complaint was at a traffic accident and might not be back for hours. I told
  him I would wait at the police station as long as I had to. That was the
  last I saw of Dawn and the policeman.
  By now the auction was over. I saw the boy who had brought Foxey Nokea in.
  I asked him what happened and he said," the killers got her". I asked him
  why he had allowed that to happen, and he shrugged his shoulders and said
  "my parner wasn't going to bring her home". I reminded him that I had
  said Iwould pay her board but he said that his partner did not care. I
  cannot get that mares face out of my mind. I never thought for a minute
  that I would be leaving the auction without her.
  The pro -slaughter side promotes the lie that the horses are unwanted, but
  the truth is that auctions such as Sugarcreek are set up to deter people
  from buying the horses in the first place. For starters, the horses are in
  crowded pens with no halters. Secondly, the thoroughbreds are the last to
  arrive and the first to sell. They have no opportunity to be examined by the
  public. The auction process takes less than thirty seconds per horse.
  There is no protection for the buyer regarding the health or soundness of an
  animal, I saw a large bottle of Banamine on a shelf next to one of the
  pens. Anyone could have used it for any purpose.
  While I was grieving for Foxey Nokea, Diana found me and told me that Fred
  Bauer was extorting money from Kathy. He had bought one of the Mountaineer
  throughbreds for less than $300.00 , yet he would only sell her to Kathy if
  she gave him an additional $500.00.She gave him the money, but his sinister
  demands limited our ability to save the other three. When it was all over,
  Kathy and Diana saved three, whose names and background are at the end of
  this report.
  In regards to the abuse complaint, I have called Dawn Smitely every day for
  the past three days. She does not answer my calls, but I will persist. I
  would suggest that anyone who reads this report who wants to help should
  contact Rosemary Williams at Mountaineer Prk and ask why she does nothing to
  stop the pipeline from her racetarck to Sugarcreek. The number to call is
  304-387-8300. This # will connect you to the stewards at which point you
  should tell them how disgusting it is that they send horses to slaughter
  and then ask for the number for Rosemary Williams, who is the director of
  racing at Mountaineer Park.
  I would also call the mayor of Sugarcreek, Jerri Middaugh, 330-852-4415
  and ask him why he allows the auction to operate in violation of federal
  transport regulations. I would also ask him why he allows this auction to
  accept abused and injured animals.
  I would stop buying anything made or produced by the Amish. They have a
  serious problem within their cult, and their Bishops need to address the
  issue of cruelty towards their animals by a majority of their members.
  I would also urge anyone who attends livestock auctions to start reporting
  violations. The important thing to remember is to get the name and number
  of the humane officer before you go. Then, follow through with complaints
  when they do show up.
  Finally, continue your support for the anti slaughter legislation in
  Washington. This bill should have been passed five years ago...... the
  horse slaughter pipeline is a disgrace to America, and the weekly
  violations point out the inadequacy of the USDA and state agriculture
  departments to police the industry.
  Anne Russek
  Here are the thoroughbreds from the Sugarcreek Auctio, Oct 17
   
  Rocking Minardi( SAVED) last raced Oct 14 at Mountaineer for owner/trainer
  Patrick Jeffries. I have reason to believe that he is also the one who would
  not work with me to save Foxey Nokea.
   
  No Problem For Dino (SAVED)last raced at Pinnacle on 9/27 for owner/trainer
  Ronald Puhl. This year he had also raced at Thistledown, Beulah, and
  Mountaineer.
   
  Kaufy Machine ( SAVED)last raced at MNR on 10/6 for Trainer Charles Keiser
  and Owner, Fred Schunmann. Dont Jinx It and Sagres are both dead...Bauer
  bought them. He wanted $500.00 more than he paid for us to rescue them and
  the funds were just not available.
   
  Dont Jinx it last raced at MNR on 9/8 for trainer Donald Roberson and owner
  Paul Girdner.
   
  Sagres last raced at Suffolk on May 7th for Trainer Gregory Rivera and
  owner Full Card Stable. Rivera gave the horse to the same guy that Suffolk
  ruled off for sending Dunemoor and Dahlia Denda to Camelot Auction several
  weeks ago.
   
  While at the auction, Rosemary Williams of Mountaineer Park was contacted
  and informed that there were five horses from her racetrack at the auction
  earmarked for slaughter. We asked if she could intevene on their behalf,
  possibly by donating the extra funds to save them. She declined to help.
  UPDATE!! October 24--I just spoke to the girl who rescued the mini. Her
  veterinarian said the pony does not have a sinus infection, her nose had
  been broken, probably by geing beaten with a board or other object. Vet
  report is now on file.
   
  *PLEASE REMEMBER TO MAKE THE CALLS AS REQUESTED ABOVE AND PLEASE CROSSPOST
  THIS REPORT FAR AND WIDE!! THE CRUELTY AND ABUSE AT SUGARCREEK MUST BE
  STOPPED!!*

Educational Links

http://www.hsus.org/press_and_publications/press_releases/video_newsroom.html

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/NY_2006_horseslaughter/step1

http://www.hsus.org/video_clips/page.jsp?itemID=27259153

http://www.hsus.org/video_clips/stop_the_slaughter.html

http://www.Horsegazette.com

American_Horse_Council_2005_Report

APHIS.USDA.gov Horse_Transport

All-Creatures.org

Horse-Protection.org Link #1

Horse-protection.org Link #2

JustSayWhoa.org

NetPosse.com Link #1

NetPosse.com Link #2 Theft Stories

NetPosse.com Link #3 Stolen Missing Horses

BlairsRescue.org

EquineAdvocates.com Link #1

EquineAdvocates.com Link #2

AHDF.org Link #1

AHDF.org Link #2

ConservativeUSA.org

Agriculture.House.gov

HabitatForHorses.org Link #1

HabitatForHorses.org Link #2

Humane Society of the US

Benedict XVI Continues Tradition of Papal Concern for Animals

Cavel ignores American traditions

http://horsewelfare.8k.com

http://www.woio.com/Global/story.asp?S=6432105&nav=menu68_1

http://www.floridafoalrescue.com/inc/skins/pt01/wmvideoplayer.php?movieFile=/videos/uction_by_Beth_in_Illinois.wmv

http://brightlion.com/InHope/InHope_en.aspx

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The following link shows 20 racehorses unloading after being shipped oversea to Puerto Rico to race.  They were shipped in a CATTLE double decker trailer with NO HEAD ROOM! Imagine that in swelling seas for DAYS.  This form of transport evidently saved the owners about $750 a horse verses air travel.  Can't we close the boarders to our AMERICAN HORSES???

 http://www.expressen.se/webb-tv/index.html?serialid=312103

Nearly 20 race horses, packed inside a double-decker trailer, were forced into crouching positions during a four-day sea voyage from the U.S. to Puerto Rico _ causing injuries that have prompted a federal animal abuse investigation...Many of the thoroughbreds were bruised or bloodied when they arrived last month from Jacksonville, Florida, and four were so frantic veterinarians say they had to sedate them to get them out of the metal trailer...The shipment, which is now under investigation by the U.S. Agriculture Department, involved a trailer designed for animals with shorter necks such as cattle. Animal rights advocates have sought to ban the trailers for the transport of horses...in this photo made available by veterinarian Jose Garcia, a veterinarian examines an injured race horse after it was brought off a double-decker shipping trailer after being delivered to the race track complex in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, May 12, 2008. Designed for cattle, the trailer was used to transport the horses by sea from the U.S. mainland, a journey which caused injuries that have prompted a federal animal abuse investigation... What's horrible about this is the way they were packed into that double-decker without any headroom," said Jose Garcia, chief veterinarian at the thoroughbred racetrack in the north-coast city of Canovanas, where the trailer arrived May 12...If you're going to stick horses on a boat and keep them there for four days, they've got to have room to move," said the veterinarian, who filed a complaint with police...Puerto Rican police tracked the shipment to a Miami-based export company, Optical People Inc, before handing the investigation off to federal authorities. The Agriculture Department is investigating, said Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service spokeswoman Madelaine Fletcher. Investigators could refer the case to the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges if they find evidence of abuse...
The U.S. Caribbean territory imports hundreds of thoroughbreds from the U.S. mainland each year for racing, mostly by airplane. The transportation by boat was promoted as a cheaper option by Hector Gonzalez of the horse owners association...
In March, he sent a memo to owners that said the Florida company would charge them US$750 per horse _ about half the cost of airfare. The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, described the sea-bound trailer as a "more economical and safe alternative."...
The shipment's double-decker cattle trailers are notorious among animal rights activists who complain they force horses to stand in painful, crouched positions. U.S. federal law prohibits using the trailers to bring horses to slaughterhouses, but animal welfare advocates want a wider ban...
It is bad enough on a road surface, but considering the turbulence on an open ocean, it boggles my mind," said Keith Dane of the Humane Society of the United States...
Some of the 19 horses initially refused to leave the trailer when it arrived at the track...
Staff members from Garcia's veterinary clinic were called to coax them out and documented injuries with photographs and a video camera. One horse had a deep gash along the top of its head. Another was still crouching five days later, Garcia said...
The police officer who led a Puerto Rican investigation, Maria Romero, said the same trailer apparently has been used for up to five horse shipments. Romero said the case was referred to U.S. investigators because the alleged negligence began in Florida...
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http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/features/vikings-153.shtml

Above is a fantastic research about the origin of the ANTI-SLAUGHTER movement for horses!

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To lighten things up....watch these links...they are all fun...

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&brand=foxsports&vid=bcf68201-9324-4d9c-9522-b632fde12c6e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNpSTh6r1kM

http://beboframe.com/FlashFrame.jsp?Size=S&FlashBoxId=3309347442

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=966_1187636093

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9D05E5DA133BEE3ABC4951DFB667838C609EDE&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html

http://www.superstarsofhorsetraining.com/horse-interview/screensaver.html

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-4584913278289860160

http://www.wtv-zone.com/butchnova/pages/UnusualFriends.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmsr7PAhWU&NR=1

Education links!!!

Emergency care: http://www.bayerequineconnection.com/Main/General_Care/emergency_care.cfm

Natural Horsemanship: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/WhatIsNH.html

Horse keeping: http://www.horsekeeping.com/Horse_Newsletter/June_2004.htm

Body conditions rating: http://www.slide.com/r/Mf2y_tuX7j8odDXid7ezwMrlrlktRvuN?referrer=emci&view=true

Tendon Injuries: http://www.vetpro.co.nz   Click on Equine Vet Talk button for many subjects!

Teeth: http://horses-arizona.com/pages/articles/teeth.html  or http://www.answers.com/topic/horse-teeth

EPM: http://www.wisconsinequineclinic.com/html/EPM.htm

http://www.gokart.net/shop-utopia/ahorse/vet.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/drfenger/clinsign.htm

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/drfenger/treatmen.htm

http://meadowherbs.com/articleEPM.htm

http://www.extension.umn.edu/horse/components/pdfs/ProtozoalMyeloencephalitisClientHandout.pdf

http://www.indianahorserescue.com/epm/Our%20EPM%20Conclusion%20Report.htm
 

Colic: http://www.equusite.com/articles/health/healthColicFacts.shtml
http://meadowherbs.com/articleEPM.htm

Everything!: http://www.equusite.com/equ4/health.html

Navicular: http://www.equinenaturaltherapy.com/navicular_syndrome.htm

Laminitis: http://thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=8856
 

Lone Ranger & Tonto


The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert.
After they got their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep.

Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and
says, "Kemo Sabe, look towards sky, what you see? "

"The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars."

"What that tell you?" asked Tonto.

The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says,
"Astronomically speaking, it tells me there are
millions of galaxies and potentially billions of
planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in
Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a
quarter past three in the morning. Theologically, the
Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful
day tomorrow. What's it tell you, Tonto?"

"You dumber than buffalo dung. It means someone stole the tent. "
 

Live simply.                                                        
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.

She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her --

a very dangerous proposition.  One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.




They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them.

Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.



The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.


May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate...
To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
 

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