Wow that’s terrible. And literally my nightmare.
I don’t worry about my death, but about what happens to all the fluffy animals that depend on me after it happens.
What a sad story on multiple levels.
So horrible!
The only good side is that she was gone so did not have to know that her animals suffered.
I saw another article that states animal control had gone out to check on things, but never went into the barn because the weeds were too tall!
It will be interesting to see if it can be determined how long ago this poor woman passed away, compared to when animal control was out. Did they walk right passed her in the driveway?
I found this line from the article weird:
I realize what he is trying to say but it comes off as a clueless comment. It is clear why the animals died, the question is why did no one notice before so many animals died. Not who can we get in trouble for them dying.
If the animals were inside then my guess is they actually died from not having access to water. After a couple days of severe dehydration their organs would start shutting down, colic would be likely. At most they may have survived 5ish days.
The dog inside would be about the same, maybe longer if it drank from the toilet.
Same, as my only close family is 2Kmi from me.
And totally non-horsewise 
I am grateful for the neighbor “kid” (36yo) who has adopted me & stops by or calls daily.
Bonus, as he’s also a horseman.
Oh man that’s terrible. I have no words.
Some people just have nobody, either by circumstance or by choice. Heck, I work and have plenty of friends and family but I don’t talk to them every single day. If I came home on a Friday and keeled over, it’s possibly nobody would notice until Monday when I didn’t show up at work. Then I’m sure there’d be some red tape before anybody could get into my apartment.
That is so sad!
The absolute saddest part of this to me is that this woman had NO friends who would have noticed she wasn’t around. I live alone and certainly it might take two or three days before someone of my friends raised an alarm. But, someone would come check on me sooner than later.
She may have had automatic waterers in the stalls.
This is what I was thinking.
The officer may have been thinking about a care agreement of some sort. I’m in the process of putting one together for my horse. The cats’ vet is felines-only and she will take them and find homes. The attorney who handled my mother’s affairs for the last few months said she sees horses with no one to take care of them.
The BO wouldn’t let anyone near the farm for a month when the pandemic took off. Enough people know about me and the horse and my mental health issues. I got calls from several friends at the barn, and also from local PD. There are many organizations that make daily check-in calls to the elderly, and meals on wheels does daily deliveries.
This situation is a good incentive to sign up for one of those daily call/text services for seniors, even if you are healthy and feeling fine. My state has a service that does this from the department of aging, but you have to be at least 65.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Every day a telephone call will be placed to a participant at a regularly scheduled time. These calls will take place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. as close as possible to the one-hour time block pre-selected by the participant. If the participant does not answer their first call, they will be tried two more times. If those calls go unanswered, additional calls will be made to notify an alternative person who is selected by the participant during program enrollment. This could be an adult child, a neighbor, or another loved one. The alternate will then be encouraged to check on the older adult program participant. The failure of the participant and alternate to answer may result in a Welfare Check by local law enforcement.
My grandma lived about 2.5 hours from my mom - her closest family. There were neighbors that kind of looked out for my grandma as they were friendly with my mom and we used to play with their kids growing up, but my grandma was not exactly a pleasant woman so she didn’t tend to have friends.
She signed up for the local police to call her at a certain time every day. Sometimes she would get distracted and miss the call, which would incur a visit from a cop. There was one cop in particular that seemed to get along with her so he would do check in visits ocassionally as well. It was a small town so probably not much to do for him anyway. If I ever get there, that’s what I will do but I may just set something up with my niece.
Another friend that lives alone and is only about 30 has a set up with a few other single/livine alone friends to text every morning to make sure no one died over night.
My horse is boarded so really it’s just a matter of someone noticing I’m dead and the life insurance kicking in. It is known I don’t care if my horse is euthanized the moment I’m confirmed dead - I won’t care and it’s better than my horse ending up in a bad situation.
