Just when I think I’ve seen the worst thing on the Internet…
Jan 25 2008
Wow. Wow. Wow.
My faithful readers know that I do not shock easily, but I have to say that I read about today’s “rescue” with my mouth hanging open in utter astonishment. I just don’t even know where to begin, and I’m not sure I can even snark about this because it is just ghastly and awful and I (standard disclaimer applies, note use of “feel” to clarify lack of action) FEEL like dragging these people behind my car with a big rope. And after you read all of this, you will too.
Original link.
Just to summarize, this is a deformed filly that lived three years. Those three years included being hit by a car and bitten by a rattlesnake, a couple guys trying to sever her spinal cord with a knife, battling massive infection in her hugely deformed leg and finally shot in the head after being down for God only knows how long. And I’m sure He knew because these asshats talk to Him ALL the time according to their site.
Allow me to quote from their description of Blaze’s final days “With help, Blaze could stand. Then it came to the point where even with help, Blazes legs just couldn’t hold her up. In her weakening condition, Blaze would try to stand. She would try so hard to just sit up…but she couldn’t. She was quickly acquiring sickening sores on the underside of her body with the smell of death emanating from her skin.”
While there are many other horrors on this site, including a rescued mare and foal behind barbed wire (the foal “didn’t make it,” imagine that), I want to focus on this one. YOU DID NOT DO A WONDERFUL THING KEEPING THIS POOR, POOR CREATURE ALIVE FOR THREE YEARS! Why are people SO damn death-phobic that they make an animal suffer like this? The entire story is a horror from start to finish.
The vision of this filly lying there unable to “sit up” and covered in sores is not one I needed swimming around in my head. And these asshats have a 501(c)(3). OMG. And they’re our Bad Parents du Jour, as well!
And of course they take Paypal.
As they say on their site “With the opposition we receive from government entities and local people, we trudge on.” Why let animal control stop us? We’re gonna keep that filly alive! It’s the will of God! He told me so!
Folks, we really need a better system for evaluating what is and isn’t a legitimate rescue than a 501(c)(3) application. Any thoughts on licensing rescues? I’d like to see them evaluated and pass a test before the tax status is granted, since after that it’s just a gimme-gimme-gimme free for all. What do you think?
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A rescue license would not be the answer.
I study federal, and some states, tax law and the 501(c)(3) status means, legally, that the corporation/organization is of foreign origin. Check subtitle A of the IRC. That status also puts a damper on a groups ability to express any non-politically correct ideas.
I was thinking that a rescue could apply for breed club recognition under some strict breed club rules. Such as surprise inspections done by a breed club inspectors. That would be for the public to be able to see that the org meets a breed club standards. Maybe all or at least a couple of the breed clubs could get together and lay down rules that must be followed to be labeled a club approved rescue.
Then any place that does not meet breed club requirements for a rescue and continues to claim be to a breed club approved rescue, could be charged with fraud. I think that any place who abuses horses and claims to be a rescue could be charged with fraud if enough evidence is documented.
I am aware of a rescue that had to stop accepting horses because they are at/over max load. This rescue has to hide the address due to people still dropping horses off and leaving them tied up at the barn for the workers to find in the morning.
I’m mortified by this…..poor poor poor little thing. And hit by a car? And “two guys trying to sever her spinal cord?” I can see someone wanting to put her out of her misery but not like THAT!
W.T.F?????? Thankfully she is out of her pain now….RIP little one