Sad situations that are going to be happening too much...

[princessfluffybritch]

[QUOTE=Wayside;5151637]
I agree, and thank you so much for sharing your story with us.

I also have Fibro, and while I certainly consider my animals well cared for, I’ll admit that figuring out what I’m capable of and adjusting my lifestyle has not been easy. This summer I was very grateful when one of the neighbors apparently got fed up with my weedy overgrown lawn when I was having a particularly bad flare, and instead of complaining, he just mowed my front lawn for me. No, I don’t expect the community at large to support my lifestyle, but gosh, someone lending a helping hand like that once in a while really makes things a lot easier.[/QUOTE]

Very nice of your neighbor!

[Tamara_in_TN]

[QUOTE=grayarabs;5151653]
The condition of PP’s horses did not warrant seizing them. So neighbors called AC but who contacted the media? The siezure made the local news. Then someone local to PP saw it and reported it here? Then for the whole horsey world to see? While she was gone - then to return to find her property had been burglarized? If I were PP I would feel so violated and hurt.

and to add to their fun I suppose, someone posting as “acothmember” is stalking the news articles and followup and giving them links to this thread you are all posting to.Telling all the locals how crazy PP really is, how much of horse person/breeder she is not and on and on.Oh and not to forget the expensive vacation she’s on.

that is just wickedness right there…

Tamara in TN

[mbm]

[QUOTE=Huntertwo;5151539]
At this point, 4:36 PM Eastern time, you have posted more than anyone else, besides one other poster…:rolleyes: Need I say more?[/QUOTE]

there were at least 4 threads started by a brand new alter. all those threads were smashed into this one.

hence the plethora of posts.

as for being anon - after this thread i will surely make sure that i stay that way

[ToN_Farm]

According to what I read elsewhere today, someone has spoken with PP since she has been home. Her story is that the horses had plenty of water and hay, the sitter came daily to check on horses and work, she had left several emergency numbers, the farm was burglarized and trashed, and AC didn’t follow proper protocol.

As of today, that’s her story and she sticking to it:) Now, where’s that polygraph machine.

[Lieslot]

Well, that farmsitter is in a lot of trouble.

[BLBGP]

[QUOTE=grayarabs;5151653]
The condition of PP’s horses did not warrant seizing them.[/QUOTE]

How on earth can you know that from afar? Or were you there? If we are not to judge PP from this story until we know the facts, then we also can’t judge AC for their actions.

[Wayside]

[QUOTE=princessfluffybritches;5151659]
Very nice of your neighbor![/QUOTE]

Yes, it was awesome of him! Neighbors can really make or break a place, and I’m very lucky to have such great ones :yes:

[Huntertwo]

@Tamara in TN;5151618

wellll…look at that…the things one learns randomly thank you!

Tamara in TN

Forgot to add - once you get to that point, click on the number of a specific poster and you can see all of their posts.

[threedogpack]

[QUOTE=grayarabs;5151653]
So neighbors called AC but who contacted the media? The siezure made the local news. QUOTE]

I do not know what the regs for THIS AC are, but our regs require that we make a Public News Release. That PNR is then available to anyone, public or private who would like to read it, including the local news broadcasting agencies. The news media calls me each day to see if there is anything they would be interested in.

It could be that the media contact AC, not the other way around. Around here, any radio transmissions are monitored by the news media and they often know more about incidents than I do and they often know about them BEFORE I do.

[shea_smom]

I am sick of the little winky smiley face that people use when they say something ugly and then want to come off as cute. Let’s ban that sucker.

[chaltagor]

[QUOTE=wireweiners;5151575]
Um, has anybody heard from the lady herself? Isn’t WEG over? Hasn’t she called and checked in about her horses? [/QUOTE]

You’d have thought the farmsitter would have called her, wouldn’t you? Instead of people learning about it who live states away. Wonder what’s up with that? You also think the farmsitter would have told her about the theft, since they are they working on the farm. Hmmm.

[princessfluffybritch]

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[shea_smom]

chaltagor, it was written a couple of pages back that she headed home a couple of days ago. She was informed and left.

[shea_smom]

thank you princess fluffy britches for your witty reparte! That did make me laugh.

[Lieslot]

@wireweiners

Um, has anybody heard from the lady herself? Isn’t WEG over? Hasn’t she called and checked in about her horses?

Seems someone did :

@ToNFarm

According to what I read elsewhere today, someone has spoken with PP since she has been home. Her story is that the horses had plenty of water and hay, the sitter came daily to check on horses and work, she had left several emergency numbers, the farm was burglarized and trashed, and AC didn’t follow proper protocol.

[chaltagor]

Yes, I know, but wouldn’t the farmsitter have told her about the break-in and theft? There were several posters here that said they were going to call her, did anyone who called her relate that PP already knew because the farmsitter told her? Sorry if I missed that. I know it’s speculation, but it just raises more questions.

[Lieslot]

I don’t know, I thought PP was made aware of the problem via some internet poster that contacted her at the WEG. Don’t know about the farmsitter contacting her.

[JoZ]

@chaltagor;5151785

I know it’s speculation, but it just raises more questions.

No it doesn’t! Just because you/we don’t have the answer doesn’t mean it “raises more questions” in any meaningful way.

This isn’t Law and Order, or a mystery novel. We don’t have access to all of the information, it’s not like we have a sworn duty to discover clues. It doesn’t matter a bit whether it raises questions to us as we sit in our remote, disaffected, busy-body state.

But if there’s any vigilante-ism going on in Maine, thanks for giving them another piece of rope to hang her with. After all, some kind COTHer has already pointed the neighbors to this thread…

[vineyridge]

If the farmsitter came at odd hours, why would the neighbors ever know? How close are those folks, anyway? Do they keep an eye 24/7 on PPs property?

And to seize property because someone is out of town and doesn’t respond to a notice on the door seems very like a setup somehow. Does anyone remember from the video of the notice if it said “We will seize your horses if you do not contact us by noon tomorrow.” I do know it said to get in touch by noon the next day.

I’m certainly not saying that everything or even anything was wrongly done, because I don’t know; and I don’t condone the condition of the property; but I would be willing to swear on a stack of bibles that the horses had been receiving care during PPs absence. I really didn’t know we lived in a kind of police state society where our lives can be ruined so abruptly.

Maybe none of us should ever leave town without giving Animal Control our whereabouts and phone numbers.

On the other point, once the horses were seized, would there have been any use for the farmsitter to keep coming? I dunno. If I were the farmsitter, I might well have gone into hiding. Perhaps the burglary happened after all the publicity.

[poltroon]

[QUOTE=JoZ;5151305]
This reminded me of something I’d be happy to forget. When we evacuated our entire barn in January of 2009 due to a record-breaking flood that put our barn under 3-4 feet of water, we had our horses up at the local fairgrounds.

I was staying 20 or so miles away at the flooded property (the residence didn’t flood… much anyway) taking care of the small animals, and working full-time from home. My two horse partners (sisters) were in Arizona at their father’s funeral. A friend was feeding the horses a.m. and p.m. in addition to his own job, and doing a quick/rough picking of the stalls (we actually used minimal bedding and stripped the stalls every couple of days because it was less time-consuming!).

I got a call from a woman who told me that a group of people were discussing calling animal control because two of the horses had tipped over their water buckets and had no water.

I pretty much lost it at that point – how petty and mean and thoughtless. I wanted to take them by the collective throat and say “for the love of God, pick up a @$%^% HOSE instead of a PHONE!” Some of the things I’ve seen, I think neighbors and passersby can be about the cruelest things imaginable.[/QUOTE]

I just don’t get that. How hard is it to pick up a hose and leave a note?