It is likely to become harder for her to find new pasture leases, but she’ll find them. There is always a property owner out there somewhere who is out of the loop and will go for cash in hand, without much thought to the future. In those cases there often isn’t even a written lease (seems like the original property in the story had that problem, no lease). That puts the property owner in an even worse spot later on, when things are going downhill.
Let’s put it this way – she’s good at this because she has lots of practice. She knows more about moving big groups of horses quickly and furtively than either you or I ever will.
Both of these points highlight something that the rest of us have a hard time grasping – People who do this as a way of life, and have done for years, are really good at the shuffle. Finding property. Moving animals. Defeating rescuers. Avoiding law enforcement.
Whenever the rest of us are confounded by how this hoarding and moving and hoarding even works, it just means we’ve encountered someone with an experience and mindset that we’ll never fully comprehend. And that most of the tactics we think of to try to correct the situation don’t work in the long run, because they know so much more than we do about getting around any effort to stop them. It’s not their first rodeo. These articles illustrate a classic and instructive case. It is so terribly sad for the horses who have no way out.
