https://horseauthority.co/pony-breeder-charged-stallion-allegedly-starved/
She must be sick and demented. I find it interesting that owners of these wonderful ponies would turn them over to this woman. They were both old and deserved a wonderful retirement. Instead, they were given to someone who starved them. Did the owners do any due diligence?
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The accused had a good reputation in the pony world up until now.
Insurance??? this is pretty twisted and sad
So sad 
I hope that the judge prosecutes her to the fullest extent of the law
Horses go down fast when things go wrong with the people in their lives. Substance abuse problems, depression, physical illness, TBI, strokes. If the person loses the plot for a month the horse can be a rescue case. No idea what the back story is here though.
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Blue Bayou was my pony, bred and born and sold from Sugarbrook. She was such an easy keeper I cannot imagine how she was starved. We are just thankful that her owner now, Keri Emerson got her removed quickly.
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Iām not sure where you get āinstead of putting it in a field.ā The photo shows a horse in a clean deeply bedded stall. Pretty much 100 % sure thatās after rescue. IME the worst neglect cases often involves horses that are on pasture out of sight out of mind and the grass doesnāt hold up, either winter snow or summer drought.
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How awful. I am glad she is safe and healthy now.
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I would venture a guess that the stall is where it had been moved to after being rescued.
Next to impossible to insure horses past late teens. What you do get, if anything, on a Senior is drastically reduced from what it would be for a horse in its prime.
Sounds like personal problems or just crazy, not a carefully orchestrated fraud for profit.
Wouldnāt say sheās that well respected in the Pony world either. Maybe at one time, not lately.
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Agreed, there be no insurance angle to this. Insurance wouldnāt pay in horses starved to death. Also the owners would get the compensation.
Personal problems most likely, if she had a good reputation previously.
i hear quite a bit about horse rescue and welfare locally. You can keep horses with minimal care if the grass is good until suddenly you canāt.
SPCA cases certainly spike in January and February with range and pasture horses. People figure the horses will get by ok and then one year they donāt. Most of the time the owners catch it and take action before the horses are dangerously skinny.
Not to excuse what she did at all.
Just to say it can happen fast, and if the caretakers are losing their grip, it can get bad.
I think there must have been other medical issues leading to euthanizing the stallion. In the photo he is no worse than many rescue horses that are brought back to full health and weight in 6 months.
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No respect here from me. I had to contact Holly about 12 years ago and ask her to stop advertising one of her foals as an Alvesta Picasso baby. I know where all of our Picasso babies are and her foal was not one of them. Thankfully, she did remove the sire name as soon as I asked.
I feel so bad for the ponies, but this is a good lesson for anyone who leases horses or ponies. If you cannot check up on them regularly, make sure to keep in regular contact with the lessee and ask for updated photos and videos.
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Iām thinking that thereās a lot more to this story than weāre seeing right now. Before we besmirch someone, maybe get details first. Pictures and āallegedsā donāt always reflect the facts. As one poster mentioned, these are older ponies and anyone whoās āin the businessā knows just how fast things can go south with no red flags.when Equineās are involved. Just sayinā
āJust sayināā that if youāre leasing an older horse or pony, heck even a younger one, because things can go south with an equine of any age, CONTACT THE OWNER! WTF is this keeping one to the point of having it being put down without contacting the owner? Sorry, really sensitive after we got a leased racehorse back three-quarters starved. Thank dog friends of ours saw him and let us know what was going on so we could get him home and retire him.
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It is always the first time poster that offers the voice of reason. :rolleyes:
If a Lessee is having trouble keeping weight on an older pony, the first step might be to contact the owner and give them a heads up that there is an issue. Sorry, there is no excuse for this when you are leasing.
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Ditto.
There is NO EXCUSE for this situation; she couldāve and shouldāve contacted the poniesā owners long before they were ever in that state.
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I have a lot of mutual FB friends with her and she comes up in my friend suggestions. So I went and looked at her page; she has public postings within the past 24 hrs and many pictures of her ponies from as recently as this week. Things more or less look as they should. Bizarreā¦
She might have had the ponies on another property without enough oversight. She might have a setup where younger horses do fine but older horses suffer, and lost the plot for a month. All her horses might have taken a dip and then fattened up again but the situation with the lease horses went public because the owners were furious. Etc. We arenāt ever going to know the full back story. It does suggest someone probably at the limit of her resources for responsible horse keeping.
Of course she is going to now be active in FB showing well kept ponies. She has been charged but not yet convicted on neglect and cruelty. Of course she is going to be putting her best foot forward now to show how that was an anomaly, etc.
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I hear you, but I scrolled back quite awhile and the page and types of posts seemed pretty consistent. Nothing posted publicly that would have raised red flags for me in my cursory scrollingā¦ and with a lifetime in the horse industry, Iād like to think my eye for these things is above average. Itās possible she may have scrubbed it clean this week, but still, she has a whole lot of consistently normal looking horse posts.
Iām not defending or denying. I was just surprised by the public inconsistency; there definitely has to be some sort of back story.
