Sign This Petition to get the rest of the 35 horses seized
Good lord, all that tall green grass just on the other side of the fences. Beyond atrocious. If the bat shit crazy guys aren’t shooting and stabbing people left and right, the bat shit crazy women are hoarding and starving everything they can get their hands on! :mad:
There is a separate hours Anne owns in Somerset that had over 100 DEAD cats in it when they investigated.
She needs to be locked up.
Yep, she’s most definitely mental (hoarder) and must be stopped. My heart aches for the animals. And shame on everyone who looked on and did absolutely nothing!!! Sounds like there were quite a few. :mad:
One way municipalities could fend off this sort of disaster is to pass an ordinance that owners of “commercial” amounts of livestock (say, over 10) must obtain a special license and pass a semi-annual inspection designed to protect neighboring property values.
I also think the mental health authorities need to start looking harder at the whole phenomenon of “animal hoarding.” These people are off the rails, they have long since lost the ability to process what they’re looking at but no longer “seeing.”
Yes, hoarding is a facet of obsessive compulsive disorder and should be treated as a mental health issue. In this case it’s a full blown disorder.
I can never understand how someone can watch so many animals suffer and not care. Do they not see them as being alive? It just is too strange to think about that level of lack of empathy or feeling (ie none).
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Yes, hoarding is a facet of obsessive compulsive disorder and should be treated as a mental health issue. In this case it’s a full blown disorder.
I can never understand how someone can watch so many animals suffer and not care. Do they not see them as being alive? It just is too strange to think about that level of lack of empathy or feeling (ie none).[/QUOTE]
I think it’s also a control issue from what I understand… Similar to parents who starve their children. Their life may feel out of control but there’s this person or animal who depends on them 100% and they get to determine whether they eat or starve, live or die. In this case it seems like she had the financial means to take care of these animals so I can only assume that it was a control thing, not an in over her head thing. But who knows, regardless the whole thing is truly heatbreaking.
Photos of some of the seized horses, along with (warning) photos of two of the three found dead in their stalls:
https://www.facebook.com/ellie.t.garrett/media_set?set=a.10104925678327990.1073741849.4902497&type=3
This is the 3rd horse that was found dead in a stall (this link is a tribute with pics of him in his prime before his owner retired him to what she thought was a good farm):
http://www.horsechannel.com/over-the-fence-blog/2015/1023-a-tribute-to-a-noble-and-beloved-horse.aspx#.ViqwVei4mkY.facebook
For anyone who would like to follow along on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/551668128322516/
I know the owner of the Lip who died. tragic. Sign the petition, please.
I signed. Looks like they’ve got upwards of 10,000 sigs already. This woman needs to be stopped.
Signed and shared via Facebook. Heartbreaking
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One way municipalities could fend off this sort of disaster is to pass an ordinance that owners of “commercial” amounts of livestock (say, over 10) must obtain a special license and pass a semi-annual inspection designed to protect neighboring property values.
I also think the mental health authorities need to start looking harder at the whole phenomenon of “animal hoarding.” These people are off the rails, they have long since lost the ability to process what they’re looking at but no longer “seeing.”[/QUOTE]
I would love for such a statute to pass in my Colorado county. Our neighbor is a borderline hoarder, with 9 horses on 5 acres, in varying body conditions. I’ve gone to the county about it but residents are allowed 2 horses per acre, despite the fact that our grass in this area is next to nonexistant and certainly can’t support that many horses. One county official told me that whenever they try to change the allowable livestock numbers, the horse people turn out in droves to oppose it. It’s too bad, because I do think it’s a good idea, but some minds are hard to change.
It’s hard to imagine AZ limiting numbers of horses on properties here. There has never been a limit that I’m aware of. Grass/pasture has nothing to do with it because horses live on hay year 'round for the most part. This is a very independent-minded State and mindset and people wouldn’t take to being told how many horses their properties can support.
One law they do have is that more than five horses beyond those owned by the owner or the resident onsite combined, and the operation is considered a business and must have a special use permit. It’s expensive and makes operating as a boarding stable difficult.
But if the owner and resident own any number of horses on any size parcel, they’re all allowed.
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Maryland was one and even possibly PA. It’s going to be tough researching her as she has used so many different names. Among them are:
Anne Shumate
Anne Goland
Anne Williams
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Anne Green[e]
And combinations, ie: Anne Greene Williams, etc.
There is to be a live newscast Monday - (it’s mentioned here ) https://www.facebook.com/groups/551668128322516/552660754889920/?notif_t=group_activity
http://www.nbc29.com/story/30349381/update-peaceable-farm-owner-charged-with-animal-cruelty
Partial quote:
[i]Posted: Oct 26, 2015 10:32 AM EDT
Updated: Oct 26, 2015 4:15 PM EDT
Anne Goland, AKA Anne Shumate Williams
ORANGE COUNTY, Va (WVIR) -
An Orange County woman is facing more than two dozen animal cruelty charges after investigators removed 81 horses, mules, and donkeys along with dozens of cats and dogs from her Somerset farm.
Deputies with the Orange Co. Sheriff’s Office arrested 57-year-old Anne Goland, also known as Anne Shumate Williams, Monday morning. She is charged with 27 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty.
Orange County Commonwealth’s Attorney Diana Wheeler says she expects to add more charges as the investigation continues.
Wheeler was joined by Sheriff Mark Amos at a press conference Monday afternoon to announce those criminal charges. A crowd of horse owners from around the commonwealth came to listen in, some of whom cheered once they heard Goland had been arrested.
Sheriff Amos says Goland operated Peaceable Farm as both a horse breeder and an animal rescue nonprofit. The sheriff has now asked the IRS to investigate possible fraud."[/i]
I attended the news conference in Orange today, at the County Sheriff’s Office. More on FB, but she has been charged, SO FAR (more charges pending) with 27 counts of animal cruelty and was taken into custody this morning. Also the IRS has been contacted since she has a 501-c-3.
No bond today but bond hearing tomorrow. “Family member” is on the farm and supposedly caring for the remaining animals.
Hopefully justice is served…I am saddened for all the horses that didn’t make it. The Lipizzaner stallion that died was heartbreaking. A similar situation, across the country a few years ago, involved a horse I had trained, who had to be euthanized. I just couldn’t believe it. I am sorry for those who sold her horses. I understand how it happens, these kinds of people put on a good front to the public.
