It’s hard to fathom how someone could be so utterly clueless as to post that image on IG, thinking it’s showing how his horses are in okay condition and just hangin’ out, chillin’.
Both horses are worn out, with what look like welts from ill-fitting tack. He is incredibly self-centered with an element of cruelty to his personality.
Shame on him.
Speaking of long trek horses, does anyone know what happened to the Mustangs used in the Mexico to Canada trip featured in that movie Unbranded? We’re they sold off or given a soft landing?
I found an article about it. I wish Cereal had put as much thought into his stupid scheme as these guys did. I didn’t know that the horse that took the bad tumble was someone riding along, rather than the actual riders.
While that sounds reasonable, consider the archetypical Asshat were dealing with here.
The Ginormous ego likely wouldn’t allow him to accept that much less than his ridiculous Pie-in-the-Sky high 5s.
Again, just hoping this debacle ends like YESTERDAY! & The horses are freed from his “care” sooner than that!
What if whoever offered to buy the pair for $2k cash gave a solemn vow to back up a statement that they sold for the full $60k ???
Also … buy them immediately, as-is, and NO MORE RIDING / PACKING / WORK. He gets 15 minutes to film some sort of Arrival & Goodbye to Horses, and it’s done. He can put any date on the video and the buyer won’t out the fiction. There is so much fiction already it doesn’t matter.
Honestly in any narrative, any universe … how does this look that after this great journey of the heart & soul, the horse transporation is sold off almost before the finish line ??? This guy definitely does not read a room – any room.
When my donkey was gelded he developed jugular thrombosis, if memory serves. Inept vet couldn’t get a vein after insisting we do the job in a filthy, dusty pen- I could tell he wasn’t well but when I unloaded him at another vet’s the next week, he immediately confirmed my concerns- we could smell he was sick (infected).
@OverandOnward 
Sigh… While that would be a Happy Ending for the horses, doubtful Pussmuffin would trust anyone.
After all, he defines Liar & likely assumes the rest of the World is like him.
Pics of my We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Grooming! herd of 3.
Not in any sort of training, but they eat well.
Horse - 21yo - ribs are rumored:
I came here to post that too 
It does sound like finally some authorities are sniffing around Asshat.
I hope they put the Fear of God into him so he adioses his plan to sell for $$$ & gets the horses outta his miserable life ASAP 
Thank goodness they’re getting seen by a professional.
Thank you very much for the update.
“Ran them on pavement for roughly an hour.” got to me. These are horses where one has a bad hock and is 20 freaking years old, (think 60 to 65 in human!), and the other has an abscess.
On another thread, I told a story about a girlfriend I used to have who shot a pimp in the nuts with rocksalt. Not asking anybody to do anything, for sure, not asking, but in my fantasy mind, I see someone shooting cereal in the nuts with rocksalt.
Then he might have a little bit of an inkling on how those horses feel.
Me too. Good lord almighty. But then, this is the piece of 
who told a previous concerned LE officer something like “all gaited horses look lame.”
The hubris of dipshit never ceases to amaze me. He camped on private property? Once again, the sense of entitlement leaves me gobsmacked.
We could all see the welts and saddle sores. We noticed the deplorable condition of the horses’ feet, their unsoundness, their thin skin and the look of exhaustion in their eyes. But who either didn’t notice or didn’t care? The one person who is supposed to be entrusted with the stewardship of their wellbeing.
So the way the “authorities” left it is that he still has control of the horses and reportedly said he was going to the vet. So, I guess, he’s going to ride them there? Meaning that he can just continue on as he pleases? And anyone who challenges him, well, “I’m on my way to the vet.” Yeah.
So, hopeful update but not really definitive. Sigh…
And his sense of entitlement kind of has me gobsmacked too.
If he truly ran them on pavement for an hour, especially with the load both are carrying, I expect that there is serious foot damage and those horses will be down and reluctant to rise by tonight.
At the least, bruising and swelling inside the foot, which is excruciatingly painful for a horse to stand. And possibly even more damage.
The abscess must be mild, otherwise the horse wouldn’t be moving at all.
This is a great record of some details of the both horses’ true condition.
And they are going to a vet. Fingers-crossed there is enough funding provided for xrays of the feet and lower legs. But even if not, a good lameness vet will have a lot of information about how they are doing. Although we may never hear the vet report.
So ironic - early in the trip in San Angelo he was told that Falcon had to see a vet before he could continue. Now here close to the end, we finally get another authority to take the horses to the vet before he can continue.
In between, though … that’s a lot of territory where LE admitted they didn’t know what to look for.
Apparently there is a vet appt Friday and a PPE with a possible buyer.
The mare stare has been quiet. As of right now.
Thank you for the updates.
When you have to beat a horse as willing and giving as these have been to get just a walk…
“had to beat Pete to make him walk” & that wasn’t enough to have them removed from his custody?
I have no words
@OverandOnward I sincerely hope - as brutal as it may sound - that both horses refuse or are unable to get up.
And that there are witnesses to whatever means POS uses to try to get them up 
That sorry piece of trash.
Bet he didn’t video that moment for the followers.
I want this highlighted to all social media that has followed and supported this abuser.
It does not sound as if there is any way that those horses come out of the vets with an all-clear to continue. Fingers-crossed, this may be the moment we’ve wanted all along, when a sheriff finally has a situation “bad enough” for their seizure criteria. Not completely sure, though, as bad as this is. They may just tell him to ‘rest’ the horses and to lighten up his treatment of them.
OK he can, should and MUST walk on foot from here to wherever he’s decided his finish line is. Someone go behind him and if he wants to rest, beat him to keep walking.
I’m having a flashback to a moment long, long ago, when one of my trainer-at-the-time’s clients, who was selling her own horse without his help, announced “Good news! Pookie is sold as soon as he passes the vet!”
My trainer burst out in raucous laughter. “Pass the vet??? Pookie needs a vet, but will never ‘pass’ a vet!” Pookie had a lot going on in his lower limbs, shall we say.
Yeah, this is an as-is sale, if there is a sale. They don’t need a PPE “Pre-Purchase” work-up. Just load 'em and go. And do the vet work-up at their new home. IMO.
According to their previous posts, PPE is only available to buyers under contract. These guys are not show or performance horses; I don’t think a PPE will disqualify them for intended use.
Accepting a buyer’s contract this early in the game probably means it’s for lots of money, and I can’t imagine the intended use is for anything except a carnival or tourist attraction type of thing, probably with glorified “pony rides” on the poor beasts for Cereal admirers and/or wannabes.
As the Wicked Witch of the West said, “What a life, what a life.”
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