Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<Call Animal Control. They are allowed to take the animal away and find a place for it to stay until it can find a home. Good luck and keep me updated!>> --- Get paid to surf the web! http://alladvantage.com/join.asp?refid=DAG973 ============================== Thank you for your response to this post, it is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I must forward the outcome of this mare's fate, if only to prevent this from happening again, the following is the letter posted to all that helped. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx================================= xxxx, that you for calling and helping me with this. Although it has no happy ending, I felt you and all the others would like to know the outcome. The following is a letter I sent to Hooved Animal in woodstock the day after. Names are purposely omitted, for this still is an open investigation and we intend to proceed with prosecution of this guy. I do not want to jeopardize the case. When I can regain my composure to be able talk to you without falling apart I will. It truly was a horrific scene to witness. If you have a computer e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am in the process of setting up an organization so this will ~never~ happen again and this e-mail address will be home base. =================================== Letter to xxxx follows; =================================== You were my first link to many phone calls, for this I thank you. =="Well, I went on my first horse rescue today."== A once beautiful TB mare was dying slowly of starvation. The owner ignorant of taking care of a horse. We called it in to a neighboring state humane society, who responsively turned it over to a detective in the state the mare was in. I had moved in the interim, several months had passed, I went back last Friday to check on this mare's condition. What I saw was simply hide draped over bones. A site more horrible than some of the pictures I've seen of dead animals from rescue calls. I touched her and said I would get help no matter what. What followed was 72 hours straight of phone calls, searching websites, more phone calls..... ~Only to find out that the "Dairy" state, named after a hooved animal....has NO HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY in place in Kenosha, County~ Numerous Humane Society's from surrounding counties returned calls, instructing me how I was to go about saving this mare, many from up to 5 hours away, banding together to help me. Their hands tied because it was out of their jurisdiction. More leads came in burning up the phone lines. A very special vet, hours away offering to meet me to be an expert witness to expedite the seizure of this mare from her fate of death. I arrived at my old house next to the mare. I ran to the back only to find the teenage son leaving the barn, and the mare nowhere in sight. The other horse in distress, as only a horse acts when their partner is 'just' removed from them.....panic set in, what should I do next? I called all my contacts, they suggested maybe someone tipped them off. I should contact the detective, maybe she had some answers. I was told at the sheriffs office, "yes there was an investigation on this horse some time back, but no one was sure if anything had been done". And why was "I" concerned about it? Well, ten minutes later we would realize the fate of this mare "and" the fact that "no one at the Kenosha County Sheriff's Dept. was sure of anything". Sitting on the couch trying to think what to do next, I noticed the traffic backing up in front of the house, it was a backhoe making it's way done the road...... and turning into the driveway of the mare's owner. I ran to the back and, the backhoe slowly reached into the barn, and dragged her body out and dragged it behind the barn, and then tried to get it into a tractor bucket. To dark to see they brought a car back for more light. The sight was sickening. They made every effort to to keep me from seeing what what they were doing. Hurriedly they tried to hide her body. Sadly, I also fear she was not dead at this time. That is when I saw it was 'her'. She had to have died minutes before I got there or did she? I called the police to explain, I wanted a picture of her body, to be able to still prosecute this man, they "did" say their was an investigation open on neglect, abuse. I was simply told there was no law about dragging a dead horses' body around at night on his own property. ==Yes, tonight I went on my first horse rescue.== Please, God give me the strength to set this right, so this mare did not die in vain. Many people spend 'years' in rescue, enjoying their part in breathing life back into these neglected and abused souls. And are wounded when they view their first one die. On the way home I just wanted to walk away and never to have to feel this pain ever again. But maybe it is thru pain and suffering myself that will give me the strength to stand up and make a difference. This horse died because, ~Kenosha County has NO Hooved Animal Society in place~, I will not rest until there IS one in place. ==Yes, I went on my first horse rescue today, and certainly it will not be my last.== Rhiannon A very heartfelt thanks to all who dropped everything to try and help me with this rescue. You know who you all are. Thank you. update: we are pursing the Dept. to insist on this man producing this mare's body. We fear she was dumped either in the wetlands or on a neighboring property, to cover up the evidence.
