Yesterday I received the most frightening news that a horse I placed with a young lady has most likely been due to a scam where the young lady indicates that her barrel horse needs a pasture mate while she is vet school.
In this case, I’m going to paste what I posted to my personal Facebook Page
I am heart-broken. This is filthy and disgusting. All local AL/GA horse owners beware.
We had a lovely young connemara/TB gelding with some ankle jewelry that prohibited him from much more than a pasture ornament. Fallon contacted me with the following story:
A vet student at Tuskeegee, she needed a pasture-mate for her barrel horse. She came to our farm, we chatted, she chatted with my parents, and we looked over all the ponies on the farm. Believing her story and confident this would be a great home for Beau, we allowed her to take him home.
She is currently missing and apparently has told many others the exact same story. I will post photos, if we could locate our gentle pony, he will have a forever home back where he belongs on my parent’s farm.
I take full responsibility for not visiting her own farm or researching her history further. I would love to find little Beau.
It has come into light that she is scamming those with retired horses in order to then sell them to kill buyers.
I am sharing the Facebook page. I’m sure many posters may argue that it is never permissible to gift a horse to someone with the risks involved. In my case, I should have visited her farm first-hand, but after spending most of an afternoon with the young lady, we were comfortable with the situation. I know others had contracts which had first right of refusal as well. SO may this be a warning to others. There have been suits filed against the accused. The dean of her college has been contacted.
In this case it is true that she presented false and misleading information in order to obtain the animals.
