Even the IRS cannot make THIS a rescue!
Jun 23 2010
“Our Rescue has two horses ready for special homes. Adoption fee is $150. They both have vaccinations and coggins done.
Toni is a 9 year old gelding. He is blind in one eye and not broke would be good for an experienced horse trainer or just as a companion horse. He is 12.2hh He is halter broke and handable. At 9 years old, half blind and halter broke, the only person who is going to be interested in Toni is a kill buyer. If you wanted him to have a chance, you would put some training on him. Half blind does not mean he can’t be ridden. Koda is a paint 4 year old stallion He is very friendly will come meet you at the fence easy to catch and load. Can be saddled and worked with but does need more training. NOT FOR A BEGINNER OR YOUNG CHILD WITHOUT MORE TRAINING> Uh, not for a beginner or a young child without GELDING and a WHOLE LOT OF TRAINING. And why would any rescue let an unaltered horse valued at a whopping $150 leave the premises?
The rescue has room for other unwanted ponies and farm animals. NO YOU DON’T. You are handing out two unbroke horses, one of which still has his testicles for $150 to any fool on Craigslist. While you may physically have room, you do not have the money, as is obvious from this post. STOP TAKING IN MORE! Email for more information Cajun Country Ranch Animal Rescue Inc.
Well, obviously I had a problem with this ad so I headed over to their web site to check them out — where I found this paragraph that I would just love to respond to:
“Before questioning me and my rescue What ARE YOU DOING TO HELP NEEDY ANIMALS?”
“And think if I had something to hide do you really think I would put it on the net where the WHOLE WORLD can see it?”
I don’t think you’re necessarily hiding anything — to me, it’s pretty clear you’re making some bad judgment calls and writing about them for the whole world to see. Instead of considering that the criticisms you’ve obviously already heard may have some basis in fact, you are having a defensive hissy-fit.
“I understand that everyone has an opinion on how things should be run but think before you blast someone who is atleast working at making things better if for only one animal at a time.”
Look, just because you’re working doesn’t mean you’re accomplishing anything useful. If you save 2 horses but let someone adopt a stallion that makes 10 or 20 accidental horses, you aren’t helping things in the big picture. Why would I defend poor work? We’re not all in some great sisterhood of rescue here. I know, people pull that song-and-dance on me all the time, but we’re not. There are certain basic standards you have to adhere to or YOU ARE NOT A RESCUE, and you are not adhering to those standards.
“Believe you me if money was no object things would be vastly different but it is usually those of us that are involved in rescue work that have to worry about money. There are more middle class working stiffs in rescue work than rich people.. “
Of course. There are more middle class working stiffs than there are rich people, so it stands to reason the same ratio holds true among rescuers. So, let’s say you have $500 a month after your other expenses to spend on your rescue animals. You can have two or three, and take care of them properly, and give them all the care they need, AKA “doing it right,” or you can have twenty, and do a piss-poor job of taking care of them and not have money for even basic vet work like spaying and neutering. I think it’s pretty obvious which route you chose. For god’s sake you’ve got at least 20 dogs alone! Every single person reading this has a budget — I really doubt Bill Gates is lurking on my blog. You are not being picked on by a bunch of trust-fund cutie-pies without a care in the world. This is not about money.
“So all I ask is if you have a serious concern do not hesitate to call or email me privately.”
Refusing to discuss it publicly adds to the perception you have something to hide.
“IF you are out to cause trouble don’t unless you are willing to back up your complaints/concerns with real work. “
I work all the time to help animals. If you mean, come to your farm and work, dream on.
More interesting stuff from her page:
“We are a private rescue at this time. We affiliated with Chances Miniature Horse Rescue and the Humane Society of U.S.”
Who wants to bet me a frappucino the HSUS has never heard of this woman?
Oh, then I found a blog entry that said:
“We picked up the horse, Toni, from Norman and he looks like he will be with us for a while. He is a ex youth rodeo horse and now we have to covince him that life is not about trying to buck people off but to work with them. We also got in a pony, Koda, from another rescue that does big horses. Now Koda on the other hand is a good horse. After his vet visit on the 31 and personallity testing he will probably be going up for adoption. “
Uh, so let me get this straight. Toni is a youth rodeo horse that bucks people off. YOU SAID HE WASN’T BROKE IN YOUR CRAIGSLIST AD. For someone who talks about God so much on her web site, you should probably stop lying so much. You got Toni on the 20th. A week later, he is on Craigslist and you are trying to ditch him? You apparently have the attention span of a gnat with ADHD. I guess you decided he would not be with you for a while after all. And what happened to waiting for Koda’s vet visit on the 31st – one that we can only hope would involve gelding him – before putting him up for adoption? Nope, both are on CL as of the 29th. Okaaaay.
You know, you’re right – everybody has their own opinion about how things should be run but probably the #1 rule of rescue is that you do not let an unaltered animal leave that way. You spay/neuter the cats and dogs, you geld the colts/stallions. Now I am a little more flexible than a lot of people — on the off chance you discover some amazingly nice, papered stallion with a performance record, then I don’t think you have to geld it merely because it was in a bad situation. But you don’t have that here.
Oh, and based upon your blog, you need psychological help because you hate everybody and you’re actively paranoid. Honey, the only reason people give you a hard time is because YOU DESERVE IT! Good loooord, every other entry is about you fighting with someone else or someone else being out to get you.
For SOS Equines today, I want to share an update. Remember my ad about the son of Gulch they rescued last year, Scarp, barn name Magnum? Here he is today. He seems to have misplaced his ribs and hipbones. 
Doesn’t he look wonderful? He is adopted, but SOS has more Thoroughbreds where he came from, including a super cute 4 year old red mare called Split Pants, so check them out if you’re in the PNW.
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Ugh, I hope the nylon halter isn’t left on the horse while he is turned out in his barbed-wire paddock. Why any rescue would adopt out an unaltered animal is beyond me, let alone one for $150. Are the kids in flip flops or do they at least have proper footwear???
I doubt the dogs are actually rescues. The puppies appear to all have been born there. The lab pups are “a black lab puppy out of a chocolate female and a black male” – they don’t look purebred, but she states the parents colors just in case another miller is looking for new brood stock.
Ugh!
If I understand her correctly, she’s not exactly lying about the pony being broke. There’s a “pony busting” event in youth rodeo, so I assume the unfortunate animal was a bronco, not exactly what you would call broke.
Check out the picture of the dog “Cocoa” on the adoptable’s page. Dog, 2 horses and a lot of trash. How picturesque the rescue must be!
Then there is the virtual farm tour pictures… words escape me.
from her blog: “We had several rescues join us. Three box turtles decided to take on cars so they are here for a little R&R. Then a beautiful momma mouse decided to make a nest in my desk drawer and have babies! So now the drawer is off limits until she decides to move on. I don’t get to decide who needs saving!”
Wow, just wow, I guess I am guilty of “deciding who needs saving” when it comes to rodents in my HOUSE…
I wonder why the mouse decided to take up residence in her desk drawer. Is there an old sandwich in there or something? I know houses have rodents, but how bad is your infestation when they are moving into somewhere that far away from a food source?
I dunno…in Iraq the mice would take up residence everywhere. They’d chew through almost anything to nest and destroy your stuff in the process, even if you didn’t have food around. If you had anything, anything at ALL they found attractive, you had mice. Books, clothes, leather journals, papers, whatever.
And trust me, when you’ve got folx coming in to do Health and Welfare inspections, rooms stay *relatively* clean. I LOATHE mice. Those little bastards would be out for the barn cats in a heartbeat. They’re gross little disease vectors.
I guess they saw the poultry living in a room of their own with the walk-in wardrobe turned into a rabbit warren and decided these ppl wouldn’t care if they moved in as well…?
Oh…. wow. When the rats make a home under her sink, do you suppose the dish soap becomes off limits?
OK, that is really gross and a perfect example of how this woman does not have the mental capacity to determine acceptable living conditions for herself, nevermind her animals!
I do think mice are cute looking, thank you Beatrix Potter, however they do not belong in your house, much less your clothing drawers!
If you’ve got mice in your bedrooms, you’ve got a pretty serious rodent problem throughout the whole house, I would wager money on that. That is not something to encourage!
I understand not wanting to kill the mice. But for the sake of sanitary conditions, at least relocate them somewhere else! Rodents do carry disease, not to mention all the poops….. UGH!
Gotta love this..
From their adoption requirements…
Inedaquate fencing..
” The following situations are considered inadequate for CCR’s equines:
-Barbed wire on small paddocks of one acre or less (Electric is cheaper, easier to set up for a small pen and what the equines are use to here at CCR)”
I’m confused by her statement.
So, she’s saying that barbed wire on larger paddocks (over 1 acre) is OK?
Here’s a funny quote from the Adoption Policy page:
“The following situations are considered inadequate for CCR’s equines:
-Barbed wire on small paddocks of one acre or less (Electric is cheaper, easier to set up for a small pen and what the equines are use to here at CCR)”
They’re used to electric AND barbed wire, it seems…
Also, it looks like she’s starting to cover up and delete stuff either in response to this blog or to help her application for 501(c)3 go through…
I also wonder when rescues adopt out mares as “broodmare prospects,” even if they use the term “sport horse” in the same sentence. However, gelding is a lot less expensive than spaying, so I guess I answered my own question.
That said, I SO agree with the business about cleaning up the trash. Who was it said a couple of blog topics ago, No picture is better than a BAD picture. It would seem to me that before getting “rescue #1,” the facility should have proper fencing, enclosures, and cleanup (no trash, no boards with nails, no nails, etc.). That should be the FIRST THING on the list. My place has chain link fence, a two-stall barn that needs a new light switch for the barn light, a tack shed that needs to be better organized (it has a wastebasket, but you can hardly find it in the piles of horse blankets, saddle pads, and trunks). I’ve got the space for at least one rescue, but I know my time-and-energy limit, so I’m holding fast and donating what I can when I can to others who have shown by word/deed that they are doing things right.
Enablers aren’t helped at all by funds or volunteer hours.
I think it said somewhere that she was an army vet. So much for her Jainism… Anyway, why is she not gelding her own?
wrong kind of vet. I’m sure they mean veteran.
In fact I’m almost positive.
“All small animals adopted from CCR will be kept up to date on all routine veternary care suitable for the type of animal you are adopting.”
That from her website. If she were an animal vet, one would hope she could spell the word.
Seems the “hoarder” dog photos have magikally disappeared… LOL
I’ve helped out a few horses here and there as funds would allow, and this lady is in waaaaay over her head. If you don’t have the time, knowledge and money to fix what is wrong with them, you shouldn’t have them. Period.
Question do you know what happened to the three of the four horses she took in from Marie Ewan. I am looking for them as I gave them to Marie for her family with the guidance that they would come back to me. But they didn’t any help would be great. Thanks
So Im assumming that those kids are playing with the 4 year old paint pony stallion and the almost blind gelding from the craigslist add right next to shredding device…oops I mean the barbed wire fence?
Even standing too close to a barbed wire fence makes me nervous. I have a wonderfull long scar of my upper thigh from where I had just walked to close once and brushed agained a barb, as a teenager. cut me right open. Guess what I was wearing: shorts and flip flops. I can not imagine what could happen if one of those ponies got frisky and bumped one of those kids…or started to argue about who going to get the most petting.
But both ponies look like sweet guys. With training, gelding and time, they should make happy pocket ponies.
No way she is a rescue. Sounds like someone trying to make a quick buck.
I had a pair of shorts literally rip completely off my body when I walked by a barb wire fence once! I wasn’t hurt, because they were loose denim shorts, but they were torn literally in half and fell off. My husband laughed at me.
Don’t worry, the fence wasn’t in a location with horses!
I have had barbed wire “bite” me through denim many times. Horrid stuff!
Totally disgusting. There is NO excuse why people can’t pick up their own garbage. Perhaps this lady is certifiable? From your description in the first paragraph, it sounds like she is. Sounds like she’s more than a horse dealer – looks like a puppy dealer too. Went and took a look at the “dogs” she has available for “adoption” and most are puppies. I wonder if she is a breeder or just a pro-lifer? Either way, she’s a dumbass.
Thanks for posting – it was, as always – an enjoyable read.
DogsDeserveFreedom
Wow! that house is gross!! Why the hell does she have so many dogs? Every heard of nuetering/spaying? Sound like a want to be resuce. I visted the web site who is going to pay 500$ adoption fee for a 28 yr old horse? When you can pick one up at auction for next to nothing! I hope she has money for vet bills with that fencing!
Wow fugs… I have been searching anything and everyone online regarding this gal and I just have to say, you have some guts! I have a feeling that this one is a COMPLETE whack job… she’s freakin terrifying!
I’ve been googling like crazy, but I keep coming up on dead links and deleted comments. Do you have any live ones?
District Court Public Records
Found: 3 records.
Searched For:
Name: duhon, anne
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Page: 1 County Case Number Filed On Party Case Offense/Cause
Latimer CM-2008-00491 10/20/2008 Defendant – DUHON, ANNE MARIE STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, ANNE MARIE DUS
Latimer PO-2008-00001 01/04/2008 Plaintiff – DUHON, ANNE MARIE DUHON, ANNE MARIE vs. REED, BARBARA ANN PROTECTIVE ORDER
Latimer SC-2009-00041 08/31/2009 Defendant – DUHON, ANNE MARIE NICKEL/JONES INC. vs. DUHON, ANNE MARIE FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
http://www1.odcr.com/results.php#/results.php?Page=0-----------------------------------------------------
This one is odd because it sounds like a couple locals know her and they thought she had left the area once she was kicked off of her property (which they were happy about):
http://www.topix.com/forum/source/kfor/TAG238Q0RV9NNM07K/p18----------------------------------------------------
I love how she so "tactfully" mentions this line: I did try talking to her but she is bound and deturmaned to drain water off of my pond to her pond ( which is bigger than mine) Where do I look for laws regs ect to handle this? I could do it the old fashioned way and say she had a hunting accident. HEHE!
http://www.motherearthnews.com/forums/forum.aspx?boardid=1202&g=posts&t=118332-----------------------------------------------------
Nothing horribly incriminating, but usually where there's smoke there's fire. Still snooping and finding some interesting stuff... Just glad this one lives half a country away.
Huh, definitely weird, but trying to read the topix thread makes my eyes cross. WTF does she have to do with the missing family? And all those comments replying to deleted comments are maddening. Someone needs to do a big round up for those of us who have no godly idea what they’re talking about.
Here is what appears to be her hubby:
District Court Public Records
Found: 8 records.
Searched For:
Name: duhon, shane
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Page: 1 County Case Number Filed On Party Case Offense/Cause
Latimer CJ-2007-00134 07/26/2007 Plaintiff – DUHON, SHANE & ANNIE MARIE DUHON, SHANE & ANNIE MARIE vs. LILES, RANDY & KIM FRIENDLY SUIT
Latimer CM-2009-00002 01/02/2009 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE A. STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE A. FAIL TO COMPLY WITH COMPULSORY INSURANCE LAW
Latimer CM-2009-00003 01/02/2009 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE A. STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE A. DUS
Latimer CM-2009-00059 01/26/2009 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE A. STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE A. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH COMPULSORY INSURANCE LAW
Latimer CM-2009-00060 01/26/2009 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE A. STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE A. OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE LICENSE IS SUSPENDED
Latimer SC-2009-00041 08/31/2009 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE A. NICKEL/JONES INC. vs. DUHON, ANNE MARIE FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
Hughes TRC-2008-00437 10/10/2008 Defendant – DUHON, SHANE ADAM STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE ADAM FOLLOW TOO CLOSE WHILE OPER VEH WITH MORE THAN SIX TIRES (CMV)
Pittsburg CM-2009-00029 01/08/2009 Defendant (OSW*) – DUHON, SHANE ADAM STATE OF OKLAHOMA vs. DUHON, SHANE ADAM DRIVING WITH LICENSE SUSPENDED
http://www1.odcr.com/results.php#/results.php?Page=0I’m not a lawyer – that all pretty much looks like gibberish to me. Care to translate?
Looks like a lot of traffic stuff to me… driving without insurance?
So is that stuff she’s done? With the forcible entry bit I figured that meant that the cops had to break down her door, but does that mean she broke down someone else’s door?
Yes, it means she broke into someone else’s place or business.
actually forcible entry & detainer is an eviction action
I have been a paralegal in Oklahoma for over 10 years and the forcible entry and detainer does not mean they broke into someone’s house or place of business. It means they failed to pay rent and were forced to leave the property. Just thought I would clear that up for you.
Forcible entry in Oklahoma is unlawful detainer? Really?
OK, you win – that’s a new one on me and a weird use of terminology!
Yes, mostly traffic… no insurance, driving with suspended license, etc.
The one I found interesting was the forced entry… same as his wife.
“We affiliated with …. the Humane Society of U.S.â€
I just bet the HSUS has been to her property a few times, but propbably not to endorse her rescue.
She has petting zoo and a pony ride as well ….(headdesk)
A MOBILE petting zoo and pony ride. Thus the specifics of the traffic violations, i.e. driving around a zoo without insurance, and tailgating while hauling a stock trailer (6 wheels). With a suspended license. Bringing a whole new spectrum of graphic images to the phrase “trailer trash.”
Please Jesus, I know I don’t speak to you very often. But would you please make sure none of THESE little ponies and goats and god (oops) knows what else, “falls” out the back of this trailer?
Snickers~
My son summed it up very well. His statement when viewing the cute little doggie in the photo, surrounded by all that mess, was,
“Eeewwwww. That’s f-ing messed UP.”
Horse rescue FAIL.
Animal ownership FAIL.
Normal thought process FAIL.
Crazy bitch WIN.
Where the hell is the “like” button damnit???
OT
The state fair just tweeted their horse show schedule for September. The big name exhibitor that’s going to be at all the horse shows will be… a professional charro cowboy. All I know about charro I learned from buckinbo/charroit (so, nothing), so I’m wondering whether anyone has seen Charro Jerry Diaz perform, and if it’s a good show.
I’ve seen Jerry Diaz perform at least once. The Andalusians he rides are decent examples and he seems to have a light touch with them. Nothing in his act is “typical” cruel charro crap either. His wife and son do come out and join in the performance. I would not go to anything that he was the only attraction, but he isn’t bad as part of a larger show.
Okay, maybe I will catch heck for this, but I read your post about Anne Marie Duhon and her rescue. I know all about the crazy stuff posted on the site you suggest, and I know the person who posted it. I also know about the folks who are trying to ruin Anne’s credibility as a rescue. I have known Anne and her family for four years, and I know that she is dedicated to the welfare of every animal she has in her care. Yes, she has a big mouth and she says whatever comes to her mind, but she has a bigger heart.
The photos you have posted are from over 3 years ago, long before she became a rescue.
As for Toni, the half blind rescue horse–he was NOT bought by a kill buyer. I know because I was the one who adopted him. He is healthy, and after about 2 months of intense work and love, he is a much happier horse. I renamed him Bandy, so he would never have to hear the name he associated with the abuse he used to suffer. I am working nder the advice and guidance of both my husband, who has trained horses with his father for over 20 years, and Ted Nolan, an Oklahoma horse whisperer. I am using holistic techniques such as essential oils, flower essenses, and equine massage to help him ‘reprogram’. I can tell you that he has gone from trembling, snorting and being terrified of men to allowing my husband and my son to pet, feed and water him. He whinnies when I come to his corral, and he happily accepts hugs and pats. While right now I am concentrating on just building a relationship with him, my ultimate goal is to have a ridable horse. I am probably not doing things the way you would approve of, but I am getting good results, and that is my main concern.
I am sorry that you have chosen to deride Anne’s rescue, but you have that right, just as anyone who has access to a computer and the internet has the right to speak their mind. If Anne comes across as paranoid, it is most likely due to the harrasment she has received from a few malcontents here in our area. Do I agree with how she handles these accusations? No. I feel she should simply go on doing the best she can for the animals that come into her care, and ignore postings such as yours. On the other hand, I felt that I should attempt to speak up on her behalf, both as her friend and as a fellow animal lover.
Thank you for your time.
They are from her web site in March – if they were from a few years ago, she was perfectly happy to use them to portray her as a rescue this year.
If you google your friend, you will find that she has a real pattern of having problems with people everywhere she goes.
I am using holistic techniques such as essential oils, flower essenses, and equine massage to help him ‘reprogram’.
L-O-fucking-L
It’s the cherry on top of the crazy sundae.
Well, I have never actually used essential oils, although I personally love to heat rosemary oil for scent– much nicer effect than those nasty Renuzzit thingies from the store.
The massage thing works– used it on a mare with some pretty serious muscle spasms, and she had already had a ton of money spent on her through traditional vet care.
Bible Babe, we do appreciate that you support this woman, and I do understand she has been saved and goes to your church. The thing is, she is making rather horrid decisions regarding animal care and animal rescue. You can have a heart bigger than Texas, but if you match it with a Rhode Island brain, the results sometimes aren’t so good. Certainly they don’t work well at a rescue level.
Hell yeah, I have rosemary growing all over my property, and it’s just starting to smell. Love it. It’s great on chicken, too. But you’re kind of out to lunch if you think it’s good for anything other than making your horse smell funny. Maybe it’s because I live in the hippie capital of the PNW and know waaaay too many nuts who think that tea tree oil will cure cancer, that I have little patience for such silliness.
You may have “little patience” for “such silliness”, but I believe there are many,many folks here who have seen good results from using “such silliness” to help their horses. Keeping an open m ind can be a great way to learn new tools and also to help mitigate the tendency to judge other’s choices so harshly.If one really wants to help, one needs to be able to try whatever will work.
Yeaaah…sorry, but if you use your habit of making your horse smell like flowers as an example of what a good owner you are? I’mma laugh at you. Hard. It’s a damn sight better than some of the truly abusive training techniques that are regularly featured on the blog, but it’s still pretty silly. I’m imagining a horse that’s been “trained” with freakin’ flowers pulling a Ferdinand in the middle of the show ring. XD
Correctly done, equine massage can be very useful to help a horse that has become afraid of being touched by humans.
Absolutely!
That has got to be the most articulate and well-written rebuttal I’ve seen. Sound like you made it through high school.
“I am using holistic techniques such as essential oils, flower essenses, and equine massage to help him ‘reprogram’.
L-O-fucking-L
It’s the cherry on top of the crazy sundae.”
Don’t knock it. I’ve had much success using massage to work out kinks. Some folks prefer a more natural approach.
I was more referring to the essential oils and pixie flower dust she’s annoying her horse with. Figures that a person into this sort of woowoo snake oil would be in tight with someone who counts her RODENT INFESTATION in with her “rescues”.
I don’t necessarily think BibleBabe is believing that “essential oils” and the scent of rosemary itself is a cure for cancer or behavior problems. Any random stimulus can be associated with a positive reward – just like clicker training- if the smell of rosemary is consistently associated with nice people who bring food and pets, a clueful horse will catch on pretty quickly and modify his behavior.
I respect BibleBabe’s post, but I also hope she stands back and takes a look at her friend from a “big picture” attitude.
Right…and the dogs? Oh and it seems the cats too since she now admits to having more cats than dogs in her blog.
Sorry. She’s a nut.
Just because she is doing “the best that she can” doesn’t mean that its acceptable. What she is doing is, at best, inadequate and is truly devastating and inhumane to the animals and dangerous for the kids. Regardless of her intentions, her actions are unacceptable and her care of the animals is wrong. True friendshp means that you confront her with this truth and as long as you choose not to do that then you are complicit in the abuse.
HAH! Yeah, and the pics from the “Robbers Cave Party” are from April of this year showing small children and BABIES with no helmets… as well as girls too large to be riding the pony riding him, oh yeah and a foal which appears to be tied to a tree. But yeah, all those people, they are just malcontents out to get her. *eyeroll*
You know, if one or two people were out to get her, then yeah, you can generally dismiss them as having some kind of beef with her.
But, if MANY people are “out to get her” everywhere she goes, then we should really look at the common denominator there.
I think it’s great that you are kind enough to stand up for her, but honestly, if you are one of the only ones, you might want to step back, look around, and ask yourself why no one else is.
Bible Babe, Christ said, “Give Caesar’s things to Caesar, and God’s things to God.” That means that the righteous must buy legally required car insurance, obey traffic laws, and not go breaking into other peoples’ houses. The latter circumstance edges over into the Ten Commandments. A combo of the ‘Caesar’ thing and Thou Shalt Not Covet. Tailgating with a trailer full of livestock is pretty damn bad stewardship and dominion, too. God agrees with me, and so does Caesar’s law.
And don’t attempt to f**k with my prodigious knowledge of the Holy Book. I’m a half crazy, way out there horse protecting radical who was raised in a Bible beating cult, did general Religious Studies, then spent years studying the Torah and Talmud. That’s right. Do the barn, go for a spanking gallop, then off to the rabbi’s den to study law. Me and rabbi Jesus, we’re like THIS.
My name is Treasure, because mine is both in Heaven and on this gorgeous Earth.
Bottom line, your friends are dirtbags. And that is NOT a rescue.
Not a single one of those “adoptable” dogs says it has been spayed or neutered. Depending on your area, it costs anywhere between $40-90 per dog for the surgery…also, puppies need 4 vaccinations every 3-4 weeks to be protected from distemper/parvo…what exactly does she mean when she says “up to date on shots”? Working in a vet hospital has helped me realise how little breeders (even good ones) know about what “up to date” even means.
“This is not about money.” Well said, Fugs. I had the money to adopt one horse, and I kept him pampered, vetted and well fed until he needed to leave this world.
On the “Petting Zoo” page she has this to say: “Cajun Country Ranch Pony Rides and petting zoo will take every precaution to prevent injury or harm to participants at your event.”
Um hellooooo? Doesn’t a helmet count as a precaution?? I wasn’t able to find a single picture of a kid on her website wearing one, plenty without though! And what I presume to be her son assisting with said pony rides looks like he is just thrilled to be working for mommy dearest.
WOW! I read some of the blog on the TOPIX page ( found while googling her name) and that info there seems a bit worrisome, albeit confusing. If I’m not mistaken, Anne Marie D may be subject to some Jamison family members missing? Something to do with a land transaction?? ooooOOOooooo! Didn’t read it all but did find a quote where she said she suffers from “Barnheart”. WTF is that? and that she has the disease so bad none of her family members will visit her. Maybe more because she has a hogpen for a farm. I can’t for the life of me understand why people who cannot afford a decent house to live in, collect animals of every variety, confine them in pitiful quarters, and call themselves homesteaders or farmers. Jeesh! I feel sorry for those critters.
Oh, and that cute lil’ black n white pony? (koda) is on her page giving pony rides! Wonder what kind of insurance she carries. Did she not say he was NOT gelded and not broke to ride? She’s just stupid….as stupid does.
Put on your crazy-hat before reading, but here is an explanation of what Barnheart: http://www.motherearthnews.com/The-Happy-Homesteader/Yearning-To-Farm.aspx
This “Barnheart” thing… is a joke… right?? I mean, the post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek??
Please?
I’d way rather be out with the horses than answering phones at work, but do I consider it a disease?? If so, can I get disability and take time off to ride?
I think you are on to something. Can I claim I have a disease that affects my ability to concentrate on beautiful summer days, so therefore I should be allowed to just leave work (paid, of course!) and go ride?
Awesome, sign me up.
I just about spewed my cereal all over the computer screen!!!!
I couldn’t find anything about this chick. I’m a pretty poor detective
The picture of the dog with the trash and the Mt.Dew bottle under a shelf there speaks volumes, though.
OT but I went onto Craigslist to see what horses people were dumping, and I found this video that screamed “FuglyBlog worthy”!!! I almost died watching it-deff the worst sales video I’ve ever seen! Poor horse…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt12SrIgsn4
Well, the biggest thing to complain about that *I* see is the kid all over the horse doing tricks, standing on his back, etc, with no helmet.
The horse himself? He doesn’t look the slightest bit upset. In fact the video *does* do a great job of showing what an absolute gentle giant of a saint he is!
If I were in the market, I would absolutely consider buying him for my own kids, based on the video.
I would definitely make them wear a helmet though.
I hate to confess this …
That kid could have been me from the age of 8 to 17, all of the tricks and sidesaddle and sliding off over the rump. I’d have killed for a horse like that back then (my horse was not safe for that but ah, the stupidity of youth!). I’d kill for that horse today.
(Though yes, I do know better, and my own kid, when she was that age, had a helmet AND a bomb-proof horse.)
LOL, it’s OK, your secret is safe with me.
He really does seem like a big ole sweetheart.
That’s the biggest problem I see. This type of advertising WORKS. People see horses handled like this, and buy them up, encouraging the sellers to do it again. It’s a self perpetuating cycle.
Oh I don’t know. As a sales video it definitely proves that the horse is pretty close to bombproof. The only drawback I can see is that I personally know of a dealer whose daughter (now grown) would ride horses into the ring at the local auction. Parents would go, “Oh my, look at that horse! A five year old can ride it!” and buy it, not realizing that the five year old they were watching could ride (and had ridden!) unbroke broncs into the ring every week. Dealers would hire her for 25 dollars to ride their horses through for them. So watching that little girl in the video, it struck me that she was quite the little rider– not your average little kid.
Now the lack of helmets and the old trader trick of ducking in between the legs… that really COULD be a blog all its own.
That horse is a saint and he’s a nice looking QH as well. He puts up with all their crazy antics, gets bumped in the mouth a lot, and just keeps on doing his thing. I want him for my niece!
I hate to say it, but I have seen all of those “tricks” done at the salebarns around here – we call them “trader tricks”. And although I would not subject my horse to them, I don’t think of them as abusive. My bigger concern is that at about the 4 minute mark they are walking out into a field and the poor horse looks sore – lame on the front end. My guess is he has some kind of an issue health wise – why sell such a tolerant horse if you have kids?
He does seem like a saint, and he doesn’t look that badly put together, so my family is thinking about checking him out for my younger brother, although I can assure you that my brother will NOT be going under his legs, standing up in the saddle, or even be mounted without a helmet on! It you check out the other sales videos by the same person, you can watch them throw a Jolly Ball over and under the horse on a string…
I noticed that too….watched it a few times cause I didn’t trust my eyes.
Just to clarify, my ‘I saw that too’ post was in response to the 4-minute mark on the video where he looks ouchy on the front.
I thought he looked kind of ‘funny’ on the front end long before the four minute mark.. he just *moves* funny (course, folks say walkin’ horses ‘move funny’ all the time.. but this is different)
As for kids being able to climb all over him, etc.. I am convinced that they absolutely *know* that small kids are babies. There are two very small girls in my neighborhood – relatives, and not terribly well-watched over. One walked right up to my ‘hair trigger responsive’ mare one day.. fortunately she was quiet that afternoon. I told the child she must move away from my mare’s feet, because she was barefooted, clad only in ‘pull ups’ or some such… next thing I knew, she was walking underneath my mare’s belly.. and the grandma who was supposed to be caring for her was blithely unaware. I don’t go on that side of the road any more, when walking… too much risk. Anyway, my mare actedlike small children play ‘london bridge’ with her every day.. so walking under the horse doesn’t impress me a whole lot.
THe other direction down the road is an oft-untended three year old, who wanders away from home. She’s been known to get in with my two.. and again, they seemed to know it was a child, not a bona fide intruder.
As for ads with still photos of people standing all over horses, riding backwards, etc… that doesn’t really show me anything, either. THe horse may be ‘dead broke’… but it’s just as likely the horse is a ‘dead head’. *SEE! we can stand on his back and he don’t do nuthin! We can throw jolly balls at him, and he don’t do nuthin!* They don’t say what the horse does when you’re riding him, and a motorized vehicle passes within 150 yards, nor do they say what the horse does when you try to ride him away from his safe place. Maybe he just plain old doesn’t do anything. Period. Does nothing, perfect horse… if you want a statue of a horse, that is!
She does sound like a hoarder, doesn’t she? The pictures and the non-spayed animals plus the rodent infestation.
Be a little gentle, hoarding appears to be a genuine mental illness. Hoarders need to be stopped first and helped second, but there’s no point in mocking someone who is sick.
Just checked out her blog, someone named “Randy” posted a comment to tattle that “FYI you are on the fugly blog”. haha!
I don’t own a horse but read and dream of being an owner one day and let me tell you NO ONE is going to pay $500.00 bucks for a 28 year old mare in this economy. She looks nice from what I’ve seen, but what did she look like before CCR got a hold of her?
What rescue doesn’t show you the before and afters, their rehabbed??
Browsed her website:
STOP IT!!! http://www.gigsalad.com/cajun_country_pony_rides_wilburton
and the bunnies here are cute and oh so tasty:
http://cajuncountryranch.webs.com/pettingzoo.htm
Anne Marie and Shane Duhon
Meadowbrook Rabbitry
Lafayette
What kind of a moron puts this pic up on a pet adopting site? Someone who thinks there’s nothing wrong with having all that crap lying around and there’s no way she can backpedal her way out of it. She thinks there’s nothing wrong with it.
http://www.adoptapet.com/cgi-bin/public/petsearch.cgi/view_photo?photo_id=61552318
Having worked in rescue for a few years I am used to being criticized. It comes with the territory. People have very passionate opinions about this issue and if you can’t handle it you need to do something else. The most common complaints have been:
1. We take too many horses or we don’t take enough or we didn’t take the horse YOU crippled
2. We euthanized a horse that should have been saved or we waited too long to euthanize one that couldn’t be saved
3. Adoption fees are too high or adoption fees are too low
4. The director or somebody in the organization is a bitch
5. The other rescue in town is better so why can’t we be like them?
Snarky comments on your website to head off potential comments or having friends post about how you are “misunderstood” or going through a “rough patch” is unprofessional and a sign of an unbalanced person. Although we don’t enjoy being criticized, we get so wrapped up in our day to day activities, that an outside perspective can really be helpful at times. We have also found that the more transparent we are about finances and how we make decisions, the less complaints we receive.
Flipping horses for profit is not rescue. That $50 bag of bones you bought at auction will not be the O’Connors’ next eventing superstar. Selling intact stallions in this market is unethical. Calling yourself a Christian does absolve you from sin when you are out telling lies on the internet. Jesue wept.
“Flipping horses for profit is not rescue. That $50 bag of bones you bought at auction will not be the O’Connors’ next eventing superstar.”
ROTFL. So true. And it’s true that even the BEST rescue will be criticized but a professional responds to questions and criticisms, understands that they cannot please everybody, and moves on. When you are secretive and/or defensive about things, that’s when people suspect you may not be using the best judgment all across the board.
Wow…
First impression I got was she was a sweet lady, trying to do the best she could, promoting herself and getting things in order, training etc…. then I read the blog (I think some of the bad pix were taken down.) My favorite creepster quote:
‘My computer tracks whoever accesses my website and stores the ISP addresses.’
And she keeps feeding the trolls, who wants to bet she shows up here?
That poor dog in that trash filled house(?)…
Crazy wannabe horse rescuers…
Good God they walk among us…
Yeah, I think a hoarder situation is going on here
Am I the only one who can’t see anything on that webcache link at the end of the first paragraph in your post?
No, I drafted the blog a few months ago and now the link is gone.
*WARNING* One of the major beverage companies accidentally bottled “Crazy Juice” instead of their regular soda and it has been dispensed at random throughout the country.
When you are trying to turn a quick >PROFIT< you aren't a rescue. That's what she was doing when she hasn't even evaluated, gelded, or (good chances) ridden the pony. There's a good chance that in 60 days she can take the half blind horse from the rodeo and get him going good enough for some one to take and continue the way they want, and keep him out of harms way.
The key to horse rescue is that you CANT BE LAZY and you CANT MAKE MONEY. You truly have to have the heart and time for it <3
I love how she boasts in her blog post that you gave her 500 hits. I’m sure it’s true, I know I went over there to marvel at the batshit crazy. Lovely writing over there, I couldn’t make head or tail of it.
I know! But you know the old saying “any publicity is good publicity”? Well, as someone who’s been in advertising / marketing for 15 years… I can say that is completely untrue. Does she seriously think ANY one of the 500 “hits” will, like, totally book an event there??? Duuuh.
(sarcasm alert = like, totally!)
She has a new post to her blog addressing your post today……she added it at 8:45.
yeah, lol.. http://cajuncountryranch.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/4102010-wow-june-23-2010
made me giggle
OMG that is pure comedy gold. Or it would be if she wasn’t a raving psychopath hoarder who deserves to be locked in a tiny padded room.
“BTW YOUR blog got me over 500 hits in the last two hours. Not everyone will believe you.”
Like her imaginary friends, for example.
ROTFL!
500 hits? Must have been a slow day. Usually I can get 5000 – 10,000 hits to any link on this blog.
OMG…I was just on her website and now she knows my IP address, help! What kind of whack crap is that?
That’s normal. Every forum you’ve ever been to most likely checks your IP address, including this one. Mostly it’s not information that’s useful to anyone except the FBI, although it will typically allow the owner of a site to figure out the general area you’re connecting from. All that is, is information telling the server where to send data.
EVERY website you visit logs your IP. The only thing people can do with IPs is look up the general area where you live. They can’t get your name or address or anything like that.
Exactly. It’s not THAT scary.
They can block you from viewing their site and redirect what you’re seeing to your nearest mental health care center, which i admit I have done to a FEW ip’s that have visited here in the past…muahahahahaha!
Whoo Hoo… I did not warrant the mental facility detour
SO HAPPY!! LMAO
“My computer tracks whoever accesses my website and stores the ISP addresses.” Copied from her blog posting.
not very smart whack crap.
Because I know of several friends who hack for fun, and they’d make mincemeat of her saved ISPs if they wanted to. Some people you just stay on the right side of, and don’t make idle hack boasts to…
It totally cracks me up when people say they can track IP addresses. Sure, people can do that, until you restart your computer, or restart your modem/router, and your computer gets another IP address.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it Edie. Anne doesn’t sound like the type of person that would be able to figure out what to do with all those IP addresses she’s storing, which I doubt she is anyway.
I was not worried…I was being sarcastic! LOL, but thanks for the all the comments and support. By the way FHOTD can you direct me to the nearest padded room?
What really gets me is the ‘pony rides’ where the kids are all being led around on ponies in halters and lead ropes. No bridles or alternative means of stopping the horse is, say the handler trips. Every time I see that I want to smack someone up side the head.
Hmmm it seems she also has a puppy mill going? Anyone else wonder why most of her adoptables and already ‘adopted’ ones are puppies…
Also, why are their adoption fees so cheap? I’m used to having to pay at least a hundred bucks even for a dog as most ppl are thereby sure to get one or two other animals neutered….. Are 25 bucks really the going adoption rate for a puppy in the US?
I laughed histarically (to the point of almost falling out of my chair) at how she said studs will only be bred if told to do so. No. They’ll breed with anything in heat and has a uterus. why do so many krazy kolor fugly foals end up on here? Especially if it was an ‘accident’? And as for the other comment about children riding studs. In all my years I have come in contact with stallions only one stallion that may have been suitable for a youth or a young adult to ride, all of the other ones had to go to people that wouldn’t allow them to get away with crap. They were the ones that would chew on you or attempt to do so. That one black stallion was a love bug, calm, nothing really fazed him, he listened, and wanted to please. Again because he was a stallion I wouldn’t have felt comfortable putting children that didn’t know what to do on him. The more experienced children and young adults, yes. If they would have gelded him (and I hope they don’t. Awsome bloodlines and wonderful excellent disposition) he would be an excellent horse. Now I can think of several studs that I would love to see have an ‘accident’ and get snipped……. Photo of a young child (maybe no more than two/three) on a horse with no helmet. Classic. If you don’t want to be critizied don’t post anything stupid. It’s kind of like you tube. If you post a video of you riding an emaciated horse with no helmet, appropiate shoes, clothes, and junk around, and trying to jump. You’ll hear about it. But if you post a video showing you riding a musclie, shiney coat horse, wearing a helmet, appropiate shoes, clothes, and no junk around and in a safe arena and jumping something safe, you’ll get lovlie comments about you on your horse. Same thing with a rescue or buisness. Show the best to your ability and show common sense. Meaning no junk lying around, appropiate fencing that doesn’t involve barbwire, all animals appeared well cared for and shelter that is in realtively good condition. Food and water clearly visable. And anyone riding needs a helmet on if they appear younger than 18, appropiate shoes and appeal. No spelling (really. use MS word if in doubt or google) or grammer errors (again MS word is pretty good, but use caution with grammer it can be wrong at times.) And mentioning that horse can’t be sent to slaughter, or sold, leased out of personal view will also help keep crazies away. Anything less and you’ll probably hear about it. We’re not out to get people, we’re trying to educate people and point out what is wrong. Now if there was a blog created for her saying horrible things, than yes those people have a vandeta against her. Since there isn’t, well wonder why she’s getting so defensive? If it’s not true than it shouldn’t bug you. Unless your Mary Hsue (or someone like her) than you should start frantically back peddling and try to save face.
just a note…’grammer’ is spelled ‘grammar’.
Quote: “No spelling (really. use MS word if in doubt or google) or grammer errors (again MS word is pretty good, but use caution with grammer it can be wrong at times.)
I really do feel that, when suggesting someone should use spellcheck, we should make sure we do actually use it ourselves!!!
From my experience around junior rodeo, those horses/ponies used for bucking stock are well cared for. Of course, that depends on the stock contractor and how much he/she cares for his/her animals. These animals are their paycheck and so keeping them healthy and maintained are their priority. Their only job (based apon the horse’s instinct to dislodge a predator) is to buck. Turning them into a quiet riding pony would be quite a challenge. Yes a flank strap is used, but most would buck without it. Yes, there are some awesome bucking horses who can be saddled and ridden, but they are NOT children’s mounts. Bucking-string horses have a job: to buck. A total of roughly 5-10 minutes a season. Some are even bred for it…selecting the best performing, highest winning horse to be bred to the best performing, highest winning horse to produce a potentially best performing, highest winning horse. Isn’t that what they do in the racing world? The jumping world? ANY horse-related-discipline world? Just like any horse who is trained to be ridden: it’s a job. Abuse? I don’t see it as that. Some here may be gasping and clutching their chests, horrified I’d even take that side. So be it. It’s all a matter of opinion and your own personal experience with it. There are rules and regulations put in place by the major youth, amatuer and professional rodeo associations and 99% of the time they are upheld to the strictest standard. Usually in a better way than what is seen at professional horseshows (see other blogs from this week!).
Okay, now I’m probably the “bad guy” here….
No, you’re not. I’ve posted before that most bucking horses are well cared for and it provides a job – and not a hard one, eight seconds, hello – to a horse that may very well not have fit into any other “niche” that would keep him off a plate.
Sure, there are some shitty stock contractors…like anything else. But most are good and the horses are well fed and in good condition.
While most bucking horses may be well cared for, I have a hard time believing that most dont end up going to slaughter when their “career” is over.
I just dont believe there are that many people out there who would adopt one “as is”…completely unrideable..nor that many stock owners who would bother to put the time/money into trying to retrain them when they can just dump them at feedlots and replace them.
As Cathy, although I personally fell in love with a bucking horse once. He quit bucking as soon as they took the strap off, and when they ran into problems later getting a bull to go where he was supposed to go, they ran the bull into the used bucking string pen. That bucking horse stood at the front of the little herd and CUT that bull for a good five minutes before they were all separated.
No idea why such a nice cutting horse was a bucking horse– maybe he had an incurable mental quirk, so someone decided to make the best of it.
I’ve never EVER seen starved rodeo stock– logic says they would be outed in a big way, very quickly, since their animals go on display every single night, and twice on Saturdays.
I know of at least one guy who retrains them after they stop bucking well and sells them as riding horses. Lots of them quit bucking well or don’t buck without a strap anymore.
Like I said, they CAN be “retrained” to be saddle horses, but rarely would they make a “wonderful child’s mount”…especially if it’s a stallion! I’m glad to hear the ex-bucking string pony has a good home….but is it? Or just one of her employees/volunteers covering for her? Who knows.
OMG I suffer from “horseitis”…does military Tricare cover that?
So what if hoarding is a mental illness, so is pedophilia and alcoholism, and they sure don’t use it as an excuse to molest kids or drive drunk. Hoarders do a ton of damage to people, animals, and property. I am sick to death of hoarding being used as an excuse to neglect and abuse animals.
Every single person that I have seen that is reported for neglect/abuse of animals claims they have “rescued” them. Every Time. Cut them some slack??? Are you kidding??? Anyone that says that should see a hoarder house, when you get done vomiting, we will see if you think they should be cut some slack.
Last week, a home in a neighboring county had 110 dead cats in a freezer, oh yeah, the freezer didn’t work. Hoarder. Or how about the woman with 77 dogs in cages in a room 17×23. She resuced them ya know. No heat, no ventilation, being fed bread and living in filth that had not been cleaned for weeks. Not to mention the 50 horses that had not had a trim or worming or proper feed for God knows how long. Hoarder.
Oh lets not forget the lady with 10 little dogs in her house that was so dirty and cluttered with JUNK that she couldn’t find one of them. Lost in the house for a week. Hoarder.
Are they sick? You bet. Do they need treatment? You bet. Do they need to be punished for the neglect? YOU BET!
Most of us manage to control ourselves to stay out of jail. Hoarders and everyone else with a compulsion also need to control themselves so people and animals and property do not suffer.
I’m with you. I mean, being a psychopath is a mental illness but does that mean we should all feel sorry for Ted Bundy and Charles Manson and not write mean things about them online?
I hope Anne Marie Duhon sees that she needed a wake up call. The trash and how she is handling her business (it’s not a rescue) has to be fixed. Oh and they do take animals away if the home and property are dirty, even if the animals do not appear to be starving:
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/093009_Animals_Seized_From_Filthy_Home
http://www.wnep.com/news/countybycounty/wnep-clint-animals-rescued-filthy-homes,0,502942.story
http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10518523
What? You mean you don’t feel sorry for them???
*giggle*
I completely agree with you both!
Edie, I highly doubt she is hosting her website from home computer. In fact, I would venture a guess she uses GoDaddy.com which people use to host a website. The cheaper subscriptions have banner ads, which her does have, and her url has the “webs” in it. It’s probably a site that is hosted for free or close to it. Anyway, GoDaddy and other host-it type sites have tools available to track IPs on their server that she can view. It’s no big deal really. I’m sure fuglyblog has the same thing. They all do! So, don’t worry about it. People who threaten other people with “I know your IP address” normally don’t know what to do with the IP once they have one, and if they do anything with it, well, that can be traced too.
Yeah – the only thing ISP’s are really good for is out sockpuppetry. And I suppose the FBI could use it if someone was making serious threats about you.
As soon as I read the “we work with chances minihorse rescue” I realized you were dealing with a “nutty”. miniature horse people are “special ” . I am not putting Chances down by any means, I believe its a very good rescue , and would gladly help them out ,by adopting if I lived in the US.
I agree, if your gonna do something , thake the time to do it right , get it finished before you move on to the next project. There should NEVER be a stallion for rescue , no matter what size he is. Training doesnt cost a cent, so to let a horse go without training tells me she is too damn lazy to give the time and energy to run a rescue. Hey ,I am not a rescue… but I have purchased unwanted small horses , retrained them myself, cleaned them up, got them de wormed vaccinated and found good homes. The training is usually the easiest , and cheapest thing you can accomplish, not to mention the most important. If you are expierenced enough to run a horse rescue then you should have enough sense to know how to train a horse basic manners from the ground . There is a fine line between a hoarder and rescue…. she is not a rescue in my eyes.
I have heard good things about Chance’s. I bet they have no idea who she is.
They do now.
Or how about the guy in Wisconsin, can’t remember his name due to brain bleaching, that likes to have sex with animals? ( What is up with this state anyway?? ). Oh, he is mentally ill…no shit…
While certainly one is much worse then the other, I will never believe hoarders or anyone else the neglects and abuses animals, children, or anything else shouldn’t see the inside of a cage for a while.
I checked out the links page again. Has a terrier rescue link. Name was familiar – there was a big dust up/puppy mill bust situation a few years back involving rats that needed to be rescued with a rat terrier breeder who went by the same handle that this terrier rescuer uses. If you explore the link and site, gee – she breeds rat terriers. And chihuhuas. Wanna bet all the ‘rescues’ featured on her site are her own cast offs?
Okay… I don’t see anything THAT horrible on her site? What exactly has everyone so riled up?
Helmets on kids at the pony rides? It’s not that common in Oklahoma to see helmets. In fact the pic that was posted a while back of Halle Berry’s kid on a pony was helmet free. I’m not saying that it’s a good thing but it’s really not very common of a practice.
Barbed wire pasture fence? You have A LOT of Oklahoma horse owners to “out†if you are going to post everyone in the state that has horses in a barb wire fenced pasture!
Rescue standard of care? What really is the minimal care that is required? The horses and dogs that I see on the site (in the minimal amount of time I looked at the pictures) look happy and well fed. What exactly are they lacking that shows such an egregious error?
Trash in dog picture? Sure poor judgment to take or post that picture but hardly criminal or abusive.
Owning a stallion? To geld or not to geld is the owner’s judgment call to make not yours… sure, your standard is great and I fully agree that a stallion needs to earn his right to. But that is your standard and not everyone has to agree with you.
I’m also not seeing this history of violence that you mentioned?
Maybe I’m missing something? Maybe I didn’t look close enough at the website…
Read the blog, that’s particularly interesting.
But I can and will out everybody who dares to call themselves a rescue and has barbed wire fence. That’s bullshit. You’re not rescuing anything if you’re putting it out on barbed wire fence.
“Owning a stallion? To geld or not to geld is the owner’s judgment call to make not yours… sure, your standard is great and I fully agree that a stallion needs to earn his right to. But that is your standard and not everyone has to agree with you.”
Well, duh, but the point of this blog is that it’s my opinion and I get to call people out if I think they’re idiots and standing shit at stud.
I’ll have to read the blog.
I can understand a rescue with tax credits being held to a higher standard.
“Rescue standard of care? What really is the minimal care that is required? ”
I think that is a good question, and worthy of its own blog. What DOES a rescue, a reputable one, need to have?
I think one of my biggest answers is that it needs to be run by someone who understands how to care for animals– whatever animals are being rescued– in a way that is up to standard for the majority of professionals in the field.
I’d say that everything needs to be normal weight or on a plan that will achieve normal weight within a reasonable amount of time (with a vet’s help on that if “normal methods” don’t show significant improvement within 2 months).
Feet up to date on horses. 100% of the time. 2 weeks late, ok. 3 months late, no.
Deworming up to date on horses, 100% of the time.
If they have a skin condition, it is actively being treated on a regular basis.
Chronic conditions like heaves – treat appropriately or euthanize. Don’t let them suffer.
Everything has appropriate shelter and it is reasonably clean. If the dogs shred something, sweep it up. Pick up poop regularly.
Horses kept outside 24/7 in the winter or in rainy climates should have waterproof blankets. It’s not like they are expensive. You don’t have to buy Rambos.
Also, I do not consider rescues where dogs or cats live in cages 100% of the time to be acceptable. Kennel type runs for dogs or big room-sized cages for cats, sure. Shelter sized cages, EXCEPT when quarantining or being treated for a specific medical condition, no, not okay. Similarly, I do not consider it to ever be acceptable to stall horses 100% of the time unless that’s what the vet ordered (and I disagree with the vet on many of those cases).
I had a boodmare that never had her feet trimmed the entire time had her (around two years). She is straight legged and on enough pasture to wear her feet down even. The farrier agreed that she was fine. I just sold her so she isn’t at the house or I’d post pics.
Is that below the minimal standard of care? I’m not in anyway claiming to be a rescue or anything like that… I’m just curious! None of my horses are trimmed on a 6 to 8 week schedule.
That’s a pretty unusual example. Typically, even if a horse doesn’t grow enough hoof to get long, the feet aren’t going to be balanced without regular farrier care, and that can lead to soundness problems.
Another big issue is that if the feet aren’t done regularly, the adopter is going to have their hands full with a horse that isn’t used to having their feet handled. This makes them less adoptable.
My own horses are on the typical 6-8 week schedule but like I say, I’m not going to have a fit if rescue horses are being done every 3 months – particular pasture pets. But if they’ve gone six months or something you have a problem. It’s not that everything is going to need a lot of work – but a farrier should be looking at them and shaping them/rasping them off regularly.
I have actually worked with Chances. Here is my experience:
Crazy lady has mini mare that foals a dwarf colt. Said lady tells friend she will “Hit it in the head and kill it if she doesn’t take it”. Friend takes mini, but can’t keep it due to the high amount of care the baby will require. I contact Chances who say they will take the colt and give him the care he requires.
In the mean time, another crazy from MI has a dwarf filly. She is not as deformed as the colt, but really tiny. She is keeping the filly in her house, with her children, and has decided this in not the best idea. So crazy from MI agrees to bring the filly to me to give her to Chances. MI crazy DRIVES FROM MI TO WI IN A TEMPO WITH FILLY IN THE BACKSEAT WITH THE CHILDREN.
No one dies.
Chances approves an adopter who then drives from AZ to WI in a new mini van that has been equipped and re done to haul the tiny minis back to AZ to their new home. Complete with new barn, and special shoes to help the colt’s deformed front legs.
This was not the first time dealing with Chances who is an A-1 wonderful rescue and never refuses to help!!
Holy crap…
In the trash picture with the dog and cat: What is wrong with the cat? I can’t make it out but it looks like the cat has a wound or something on the back of it’s head….????
There were things on the internet earlier that are not active this evening. One was a myspace page. It’s gone tonight, but the cache version is available. The person was looking for Anne Marie Duhon about a missing pony that was last boarded with Duhon. It doesn’t show up on google or yahoo, only on Bing. Here is the link to the cached version that was very active earlier today.
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Anne+Marie+Duhon+&d=4843387473888674&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=a17dd654,203775fc
Weird or what?
I love the way she doesn’t see the need to mention mundane boring things like gelding and vet care, but has time to regularly update on her cyberstalkers – cos that’s important!!
Maybe she will be more careful with the image she portrays – and maybe improve her care.
Well, bitching online is free…gelding costs $$!
Well, I understand your concerns about Anne and her rescue. I appreciate your comments about my methods for working with Bandy. BELIEVE ME when i say that I have rolled my eyes at the ‘woowoo’ factor some folks claim with alternative treatments too. I have been working in massage therapy for over 13 years, aND i am well aware of what EOs and flower essences can anD CAN’T do. I am not a hippy dippy chick, I simply know that sometimes you gotta get out of the box when trying to help both human and animal heal.
As for my speaking up for Anne–she didn’t ask me to do this–i just simply decided to do that on my own. I DO look at her in the big picture, and yes, she does have a lot of things to work on. My standpoint is thaT i know her–none of you do. I know how her rescue is actually run–none of you do. I have helped her to place animals–none of you have. As for googling her–none of you know the facts behind a lot of what has been posted, especially from the woman who did the mothers agains illagal whatever. I have neither the interest nor the time to go over all that.
Anyway, I find your website interesting, and i will be checking back on occasion if you don’t mind. I think you have a lot of good things to say. As far as anne goes–I can’t change your minds, and it’s not my job to. I just wanted to put in my two cents worth on the subject.
I have to ask, BB, just how do you manage to insert capital letters at random whilst failing to insert them where they actually should be?? Must be an art form, I guess.
Anyway, the whole point is that she is not a rescue, she is a hoarder.
Basically, a lot of those animals you helped her “place” would be better off dead.
Ouch, Kirri, play nice.
Or I’ll start grading your posts for grammar, punctuation, and correct paragraphing with supporting details. I’m a laid off English teacher. I can spend the time.
Bible Babe, you make some good points, and I am actually glad you came by to speak your piece, since it’s never a good thing to only hear one side of a situation. Hope you stick around and check in with us at times!
Well, here we are again, Bible Babe. And this time, your post is so foggy as to be incoherent. The facts we are responding to came from, in large part, court transcripts. Which show these people you are so proud to know, are: irresponsible, lawbreaking jerks who care for neither animals nor the standards of their community. While soliciting donations to continue their trashy, downward trajectory.
Having first declared Christianity as a puzzling point of proof, then failed at proving any semblance of Christianity in either yourself or the Duhons, you’ve resorted to the “nyah nyah nyah” style of ranting.
And for the sincere love of God, would you please not use the hackneyed phrase, “out of the box”? There is so much more poetic language in the Bible. That is, if you actually knew it.
The trash in the house, if that picture is any indication, is probably the most telling and disturbing thing.
One, a filthy house is teeming with germs and bacteria. For a person with a normal immune system, it’s probably ok, but it still greatly increases the odds people in the house are going to get sick. Animals, too can get infections and communicable diseases. And frankly, the house probably smells terrible which doesn’t make for a pleasant living environment.
I have seen a house where the folks trashed it with animals and then had to sell it – it had to be gutted to get the smell out of the floors and walls. So the price was reduced significantly. And if a farm isn’t being taken care of, it loses a lot of its value as well. If people rent, the landlord can kick them out.
Two, it’s costly. Equipment/tack/clothing gets trashed, meaning you have to replace it. Injuries and accidents caused by all the hazards increase vet and doctor bills. You can’t find anything, so you buy new or forget to pay a bill because you left in a pile somewhere. We had the tack cleaning thread – I never used to oil my tack, and guess what, someone fell off my horse because my saddle billets broke. No one was hurt, but keeping your tack conditioned and clean actually matters!
Three, it points to a lack of organization and self-discipline, which is important for a rescue or anybody else involved in animal care. If a person can’t be bothered to clean your house up – and I am talking trash and crap all over the floor — they probably aren’t very organized in taking care of their animals. Animals can’t ask their caretakers to clean their areas up or give them a safe space to live in, or remember when it’s time for the farrier or worming, or even that they need food at least twice a day and clean water (or in the case of dogs, walks outside). I expect I will offend a lot of people with that comment, on the lines of “my house is a mess but my animals are taken care of the best.†I kind of disagree – if a person thinks the house in that dog picture is acceptable, I have a problem with that and I do wonder how well the animals are taken care of. If you are so overwhelmed with taking care of animals you can’t clean up AT ALL, maybe you have too many animals.
Now, for hoarders, they are a special case in the sense that as has been mentioned here, it is a mental illness that’s connected with obsession/compulsion disorders. I just heard an interview with an author who has studied hoarding. He explained that for hoarders, objects (and animals) hold memories and emotions for them in a very unusual way. The physical object becomes the focus of the way they build life experience. When you get 10,000 objects, well, then you get goat trails and thousands of old magazines. If you hoard animals, you get 100 dead cats in a freezer. They really don’t see the problem and are compulsive about collecting and keeping stuff, so it’s not something you can just fix by taking animals away from them or having a garage sale. They really can’t see the problem and need professional, long term help.
For most of us that are too lazy or just hate cleaning, well, not much excuse there. Personally I struggle with keeping a clean house because it’s boring to do it. I try to clean in small time increments and keep the clutter to a minimum and put away so it’s easier to keep it clean. I am not a neat freak by any stretch of the imagination (my mother in law’s house could pass the white glove test, mine, no way), but basic cleanliness shouldn’t be out of reach of any reasonable person.
My very wise child also added that it’s stressful for animals and people to live in a cluttered and filthy environment. Thought I would post that, too.
Tell him or her that I smiled when I heard that someone was growing up with the brains and smarts to care for animals correctly.
Bible Babe. This is one of the local “malcontents” First off you are much like Anne Marie Duhon, you both come to our Cowboy Church for the free bees and you are both in this “rescue service” for the free horses, as you can not afford to buy one, so what makes you think you can you afford to care for a rescue horse properly? You have skinny starving wolves & dogs tied to trees breeding them. Your so called horseman husband gets kicked running up behind a horse. Which all true horseman know better than to do. And while you were gone for several days leaving your animals unattended last year one of your horses disapear and you have never found it. It was terribly skinny and probably broke out to find food. How do you explain that one? No one would steal it other than to rescue it. As for the black pony of Anne Marie”s named CHIP, that she uses in her pony rides he is a stallion. How safe do you think that is? And do you think the people who are putting their babies on him know its a stallion? And if you think that is normal and ok Think again! You are as crazy as they are.
To Fugly, Thank you for flushing them out! Keep up the good work!
She is using a STALLION for PONY RIDES?
OMG…yeah, that’s a major fail.
Yes, the black and white pony she uses for pony rides, is a stallion and she is using him to breed the rescue pony mares and others. She said, “she doesnt use rescue animals in her own indevers”, but her site says she “uses them in her petting zoo.” She said herself “they have to make money.” On one of her blogs she sent a mare off to be bred. That horse was a rescue. She used to run under the name “Anne’s Ark Petting Zoo & Pony Rides.” She also had another rescue when she was off the grid called “CLAWS” When they left that property (thrown off for no payment) there was bodies everywhere. Its only a matter of time before the same thing happpens again. She says she is a vet tech but we only have her word on that and aynone can say that. Just as anyone can say they are a rescue. Her nonporfit status cost $25.00 it is not through the IRS. Her electric fencing is two strands of tape on a busy main road tacked to trees.
Oh yes. I forgot to add that you live way out in the woods, off the grid, with no running water, pond or good waer source. How do you properly provide enough water for these animals in this heat? Horses need lots of water, especially in this Ok heat! Could this be why there are so many reports that your animals are with out water? And Anne Marie’s adoption aplication says you have to have another source of water than just a pond which you have neither running water or a pond. As it has been reported a tanker could not even get into your place because you wont fix your road because you dont want anyone back there. Or inspections. So all Anne Marie has to do is transport unpresentable horses to you and they will never been seen aginan. Is that it? Conveinient!
Thank you, Mad Hatter. I think I love you.
This crazy lady is relatively average compared to the crazy horse women in my valley. I could post pictures for days involving degenerate horse owners where I live. Our big “rescue animal lover” has a mixed bag of animals living in questionable circumstances and she is a real “vet tech”. Where do you start?
With the authority`s, ALL of them.
OMG!! Couldn’t get past the pictures on her site….didn’t even read any of the craziness. The pictures told me enough.
Sick, sick, sick. And…who in &*%# is on here defending her….they’re the same. Anyone who lives in her state, please call the authorities.
From reading the posts here….She lost a horse???….thinks she has more cats than dogs–not sure??? O.K…Get a dumpster and a shovel to clean your house, shack, trailer, whatever….the horse may be in there…probably find a lot more cats and dogs in there too. Please tell me this lunatic does NOT have children
“Barnheart” aka “Counrty” heart. Not “back hills Red Neck hick” heart. I have been to various rescues, a few good ones and alot of crap ones. The crap ones were usualy of “Hoarder” status and they didnt last long because they move to one place to another to “escape” the Bull shit they created to go and create another under another name and lisitng. I even knew one that the owner was on disabililty due to “back troubles” but yet could lift 50lb bags of feed and hay bales. Funny how that is with many “disabled” ppl. screwing those that realy need disability assistance. Her place was a dump and means of disposal was a gargantual hole in the back part of her property that had not just trash but dead carcasses. It was Nasty and she was later shut down and pending on various convictions.
Barbed wire to enclose large pastures (ie 500 acres) is by far less detrimental than enclosing a 1 acre lot with barbed wire. The standard allotment for one horse is 2 acres minimum of 1.5 acres PER HEAD. Woods or forrest is not pasture, horses are grazers not browsers like deer, goats and hogs etc. I have never seen horses included in a discription of being of “forrest life” or “wood creatures”. Barbed wire in that kind of set up is asking for trouble and most likely will be found by a horse. In my opinion horses should not be enclosed by barbed wire at all regardless of how many acres you have.
The horse pointing the wrong direction in a fowarward position straight load trailor is not wise either esp with a trailor that is of subpar standards. I hope the floor of that trailor is in good condition and the inside is free from dilapidation and hazards. It doesnt have to look pretty but it should be safe either way. Whether the pic is old or new in concern of the dogs and cats this still sets a picture of the area unto which the animals live. If one still uses this picture it still suggest that the environment is of subpar conditions and is a reflection upon the person in charge. If this dog was up for adoption why is he still with the person 2 or 3 years later?????
REAl rescuse are to help improve an animals situation either directly or indirectly one at a time. If ppl spayed or neutered, geld the animals in charge of the rescue they are also helping the plight of over population of unwanted animals and subpar animals suffering due to thier poor breeding. Breed crap your going to get crap and there you have another unwanted animal, abandoned, forgotten, abused and discarded because thier baby cuteness has wore off. Its supposed to be “ONE LESS” not “ONE MORE”. Adoptiing out unaltered animals is poor husbandry and only adds to the misery and plight of over population of unwanted animals. Take away the supply : the need for slaughter (ie excessive horses) will go away. I dont nessesariliy see slaughter houses being the evil doers but those that create the surplus supply. There is way to much surpluss, we need to stop the root cause of the “disease” if you will.
Rescues are suposed to help ease the pain of the “disease” not add to it. I try to think of the doctors oath…..”first do no harm”. It seems so logical to me but there are so many that havent the sense God gave to retarded chickens.
This might touch a nerve on some ppl but I find Christrians (or any religious faiths) to be huge hypocrites and hide behind the curtain of the church. A double sided mask if you will.
” I even knew one that the owner was on disabililty due to “back troubles†but yet could lift 50lb bags of feed and hay bales. Funny how that is with many “disabled†ppl. screwing those that realy need disability assistance. ”
Every time I say that, people accuse me of stereotyping, but it’s funny how literally EVERYBODY on this blog knows at LEAST one disability leech, if not a half a dozen! If you can fuck around online all day and argue on message boards, trust me, YOU’RE EMPLOYABLE. Ever heard of transcription? It involves the same typing skills some people use all day fighting over who should be with who on General Hospital or whether there should be a sex scene in “Breaking Dawn.”
Oh and I have used essential oils for message, aroma therapy, meditaion music and some holistic approach to therapy, its not all bunk. Some of it is very usefull for various situations.
Okay I don’t know if anybody will know the answer to this but I had a friend give away some horse to that rescue and now I am trying to find them. The horses used to be mine but I had given them to my friend so she could have them for her family. We had an agreement that they would go back to me if anything happened (which it did) but instead she gave them to that rescue which when I found out where they went was horrified. Also to get on the site I had to sign up for it which sucked. I also keep getting updates of what is going on in the rescue that say the same thing including the same spelling mistakes. I am trying to find theses horses and find out if I have any legal recourse to get them back since I never gave ownership over to my (Friend?). If you know anything they are the horse that are in the picture of Horses having homes. The sorrel gelding (home-bred), the paint mare and buckskin filly. I asked for information on them but she stated she really doesn’t keep in contact with the new owners and has given them my information to contact me.
I wish everyone would just leave her alone.
At least she is trying to save the animals.
There are so many people in this area who do not spay or neuter and there are so many homeless animals.
I see her all the time at the vet with rescues.
A new rescue will look skinny and mangy or be near death so some of the pictures may show them that way as they are recovering.
Her children are all polite and respectful and I can’t say that about alot of the kids these days.
All you people are doing is getting these animals killed.
Please go and worry about druggies or thieves or find better things to save.
Thank you.
Sorry, but your arguments fail. It’s like saying, why are you worrying about druggies, go worry about murderers?
She isn’t a well run rescue. She isn’t being responsible. She doesn’t know what she is doing. She may be a great mother – if so, perhaps she should run a day care. But not a horse rescue.
Ooooooooomygosh.
I drove by there.
You are right.
What a mess.
What can be done and what will happen to those poor animals.
They are shutting down that place and all of the dogs they had are going to be killed
Latest from the source:
Cajun had over 70 dogs in their care. 10 were personal (family) dogs, and 20-25 dogs have found temp homes. Remember, it’s not the dogs’ fault their “rescuer” was a certified lunatic. Please contact the local (Willburton, OK) authorities if you are able to adopt or foster one of these desperately needy dogs. As for the horses, the foal is by far in the worst condition. I’d be surprised if it lived through the week. If you have any experience in large animal rehabilitation, please consider contributing your time. This is a terrible mess from a very sick woman. She and her husband are in jail; her 6 (yes, 6!) children are in the care of DHS. Please save these animals from being gassed in the local kill shelter.
Thank you.
Thank you, and I agree. I would hate to see the dogs die as a result of losing the owner/rescuer lottery.
April 24, 2010 they used that black and white stud pony for pony rides at a party… with kids with no helmets… WITH BABIES riding!!!
And on April 17, 2010, pony stud was used for pony rides at Tractor Supply… ON PAVEMENT with no helmets for riders!
Your right, Been here done this , they have not even touched the tip of the ice burg on them.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110701_12_A15_CUTLIN711352&rss_lnk=11
pray they get the fullest penalties the law allows.
also do you notice the fence is NOT up to OKLAHOMA fence law standards?
I went out there yesterday to water and feed the dogs that have not been caught yet.
There is a protest on Friday the 19th of August at the courthouse in Wilburton,Ok. Come join us and let your voice be heard, that we don’t want this slap on the wrist plea deal the D.A.’s office is proposing. Less that sixty days in jail for these two abusers is insane, after the years of abuse their children and the animals suffered, why so they can set up shop in your neighborhood next. I can name case after case like this where the justice system in Oklahoma has failed and the abuser are right back at it if not here in a neighboring state. Its time we say enough is enough and let the D.A.’s of this state know we have the vote and will use it .If you can’t join us on the 19th at 11:30am, please at least pick-up the phone and call Jeff Smith D.A. at 918-647-2245 and asst. D.A. Ron Boyer at 918-465-3451 let them know how you feel. And if you live elsewhere your calls are still important. Hope to see you all the 19th at 11:30 Thank you poundman