My thoughts are this.
For the state to take animals into custody costs the town…in other words the board for these horses is on the towns payroll. Not many towns have that kind of extra funding.
This is a wake up call to PP. I would think she will be able to get her horses back after meeting some conditions.
As I said earlier, they have probably been working with her, explaining what she needs to do, etc to meet a certain acceptable standard of care. She blew them off, and when she allegedly abandoned these horses and went out of town(to weg), they acted.
I would think those of you who sold or gave her horses might want to contact her about getting your horses back.
PP also can give up some of the horses to ACO/town and they can be sold.
No municipality wants to feed/board horses. In my personal experience, that is the reason aco’s try and work with individuals who border on neglect/abuse rather than doing immediate seizures. In PP’s case, they have been working with her for a year, and she also has prior convictions. Has she ever posted about those or explained them?.
I hope PP if reading this, understands the enormity and the severity of not taking an acceptable standard of care for her animals. If anyone is being visited by ACO’s etc, my best advice is to listen up.
It sounds from some of the posts, that those of you defending her, keep animals in similar situations. Keeping horses in the south without shelter but trees is much more acceptable than keeping horses in northern maine like that in winter.
Their feed requirements to keep warm increase dramatically.
Again, this is one of those depends on the horse and the situation and why treating them individually is best practice. I also don’t see experts such as Cherry Hill advocating minimum standards. let’s not kid ourselves…we all do it differently, but at the least, lets make sure our horses are safe, kept in condition and provide them with the means to do that.
shelter, quality hay and water that is not frozen is basic. Additionally, the law requires according to Lisa Cook who looked up maine law, a 3 sided shelter from Nov- April. I know that is NH law. If PP did not have that, then she is breaking the law. Period.
No one has addressed mud. Some of you might remember, NH state vet went after Turtle Rock Rescue and Mary and Ken Terry for keeping horses in their care in mud with no place to escape it. They closed their rescue instead of letting the state vet close them. But, the state vet said horses standing in mud 24/7 is neglect. And ya know, he is right.
I don’t know about most of you, but I try and live by best standards, not the lowest standard of care I can get away with. And if I did, I won’t be coming on a bulletin board bragging about it as some posters have done.
Each time I see the videos, I get madder. Last time I watched, one of the grey horse’s was being walked with mud above his ankles. Now come on, please tell me how that is good for a horse?
