The ones still defending HC are a special kind of crazy.
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I am actually thinking Michelle may have written that herself. :yes::lol:
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So this is just a few things to think about re the property owners, putting things in context – I guess it is defending the owners a little bit, although I also have some questions about what happened before the eviction started.
As I understand it the property owners have been told by their attorney to stop their public outreach due to their lawsuit against HCHR and principals. So they are not able to continue providing info and answering questions.
I too had a reaction along the lines of ‘so sorry for what happened to your lovely ranch, but where have you been all this time ???’. But, I’m trying not to judge and to keep an open mind as more of the owner’s story emerges.
One thing I appreciate is this: The property owners could have just shut the gates, handled everything themselves and turned the public away, and we would never have known the extent of what they found. Instead, by documenting it so publicly and thoroughly, hopefully what they have shared will mark the end of any clear-thinking person’s idea that maybe HCHR was legit. And it will have an impact in the future on people contacted by these ‘rescuers’. The abundant evidence of animal neglect and abuse will contradict the stories that blame everything on ‘internet haters’.
If the property owners were slow to wake up and act, then they are among many people who were taken in for some period of time by HCHR’s story of their mission.
- Veterinarians and vet clinics, and other horse service providers.
- Volunteers who had horse experience.
- County officials who were lamentably slow to act on the growth of the horse population at the ranch, a crystal-clear animal-hoarding situation that was rapidly growing worse. Add the fire officials to that group as well.
- Animal welfare officials who visited repeatedly but didn’t build or act on a case.
- A well-regarded board of directors (that fell apart as they became more aware of problems and were unable to effect a change for the better, as the number of horses grew).
And apparently we will be waiting years for the CA Attorney General to decide about their own case. Far too long to do any good for dozens, hundreds of horses that passed through HCHR to suffering and sometimes a difficult end of life.
Like the owners, many of these people have been challenged with the question: “How could you?” The answer for at least some of them, such as the vets and volunteers, is that they believed they were helping the horses. The property owners fall into that circle as well, taking too much on trust and faith in the belief that they were helping both horses and the people whose lives the horses would touch. If we are frustrated that the owners didn’t take action much, much sooner, whatever their reasons, I don’t think it was indifference.
I think this family is principled and well-intentioned. If they have made mistakes (big mistakes) along the way, that adds them to a rather large group of principled, well-intentioned people who were also involved with HCHR at one time or another. Just an opinion considering the larger context of the HCHR drama.
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I, too, think Michelle wrote that article about herself :lol:
OMG… Did you catch this part?:
But Shedrow and the others – and I include Frank Parlato (who already destroyed a wonderful self-help group and destroyed the acting career of beautiful Allison Mack and many other women)
Dude, she was in a freaking cult that was involved in sex trafficking and branding their members.
Given that she was arrested and charged and is negotiating a plea deal - Parlato broke one piece of that story - but whoever the author is of this little piece - appears to think it’s not one’s bad actions that destroy them, but other people pointing out those bad actions.
(yeah I’m pretty sure it’s her, too)
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And so it is far from over …
… and although legally speaking, the HiCaliber rescue is technically not out of the picture yet because the “BOD” refuses to close it out properly …
… nonetheless the principal actor is speaking clearly that this is who SHE is, not just the rescue.
She won’t stop until she is incarcerated. But people will still be sending her cash in prison I am sure of it. She is a piece of work. A sick individual!
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I saw on a facebook group Bad Horse Owners, Sales Trainers that Michell Knuttila files with the county as AlphaMare LLC on Aug 1 2018. Guess she saw the writing on the wall last year.
https://www.bizapedia.com/ca/alphamare-llc.html
