if you need proof, watch this video

Here is another example of how law enforcement in other parts of our country are joining horse rescue groups in our feelings about horse neglect. This one is from Texas. Once again, they go in and remove the animals and very quickly charge someone with inhumane treatment. No messing around trying to figure out if it's really neglect or not. Of course it is! There is a video at this link (below) that is very graphic. If you have not watched vidoes like this before, you might want to think about it before you decide. The images stay with you forever. And they are not pretty or happy images. The media groups who are brave enough to show this stuff are high on my list of "good guys." For so long these secrets of the horse industry have been silent and invisible. But now the silence has been broken. The images are real. And it's only when we know the truth that we become motivated to voice our own opinions and take action to join in the mission to make things right. If you watch this video, you will be able to see that most of the horses going to slaughter here are very healthy looking horses. They are not old, blind, lame, skinny horses. There is no need for horse slaughter in our country. There is, however, a strong need for more responsible horse owners and especially more responsible horse breeders. When they breed so many horses that they don't have time to get them trained and so they just send them to slaughter instead of training them, well, it's time for them to quit breeding. To them, it's just like taking their garbage to the dump. To us, it's like getting paid to allow someone to brutally murder our friends.
When you go to this link, you will be able to read the story first. It won't start the video unless you click on it. If you are new to all the fuss about what's wrong within the horse industry these days, this video will open your eyes. In a wide way.
http://www.khou.com/news/Horse-neglect-cases-spike-78268742.html


If you have questions or comments, you may email Shelter Manager Darci at doublehphorses@alliancecom.net

Toward Greener Pastures for 80 Starving Horses - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Here is a new post from the HSUS. The Humane Society of the United States. USE THE LINK BELOW. The link will take you to the story and a video. Notice they did not hesitate, and all entities were in agreement, that they must remove ALL not some of the animals on this property.

The horses in this story look and act like the horses we rescue.  I can honestly say that in all of our rescues, only once did we have trailer loading issues. And we had prepared for that because we expected it with that particular group of horses. So we made sure we had some extremely experienced horse handlers and trainers with us on that rescue. But otherwise, we have never had trouble loading them. In most cases, the horses we rescue have had very little human contact in the months leading up to their rescue. Just standing out there starving. So, they are usually extremely happy to see us arrive with our trailers. and then when we get them to where we can give them hay and water, they quickly become our friends. Afterall, we are the ones who brought them to the food.
Bless Your Food on this Thanksgiving Day. And Bless the Animal Rescuers for the work they do. Sometimes they have to do it on Holidays, on weekends, after 5 p.m.. And many of them are Volunteers.

and the next time you hear someone around here say something negative about the mission of the HSUS, please set them straight. all you need to do is go to their website hsus.org and read their stories, watch their rescue and undercover videos. One of the hardest ones to watch is the one about the baby veal calves. And it doesn't have anything to do with eating beef, with eating baby beef, with farming, or about producing food. It only has to do with cruelty to animals. The way they are treated. The way they are piled up on top of each other. both the living ad the dead. The way they are splashed with water so the electric prod might be able to get them up on their tiny little feet, even though they are too weak to stand. The way the workers laugh at them, at their weak and wobbly condition, yelling at them to get up cuz "there aint nothin' wrong with you." Like I said, it has nothing to do with the production of food or farming. Only about cruelty.

here's the link to the new HSUS video. The rescue of 80 starving horses in Tennessee.


Toward Greener Pastures for 80 Starving Horses - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

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