Posts Tagged ‘backyard breeders’
Getting back to the title of the blog…
“2 yr old Polish Arab May-15-09 (cremello) Stallion 15 hand started. Excellent ground manners ~ gentle ~ bomb proof To approved home ONLY $1000″
ONLY! Well, damn, what a deal! Sign me right up! I have always wanted a faux cremello Polish Arabian stallion whose only Arabian characteristic is his ears.
(Psst…Jeff? Since Arabians don’t even come in cremello – not that this horse is one, anyway, he’s probably a buttermilk buckskin but it’s hard to tell with the winter hair on – do you suppose he might not really be purebred? I mean, that and the fact that he LOOKS LIKE A DAMN LOW-END QH EXCEPT FOR THE EARS?)
And strangely, he is $1000 today but two weeks ago, he was free. Witness the previous ad:
Horses Need Approved Home – $1 (Lakebay)
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6 yr old Golden Palomino Stallion 15 hand very gentle started, but green (kid safe) FREE to approved home ONLY 21 yr old Appaloosa mare 15.1 hands extensively trained in Western & English very sound & bomb proof (registered) FREE to approved home ONLY 12 yr old Egyptian Arab mare 15 hands gaited, extensive training ~ very intelligent FREE to approved home ONLY 5 yr old Polish Arab gelding (bay roan) ridden once but green ~ excellent ground manners ~ very attentive FREE to approved home ONLY 2 yr old Polish Arab (cremello) Stallion 15 hand started. Excellent ground manners ~ gentle ~ bomb proof FREE to approved home ONLY 22 yr old Golden Palomino mare 15.1 hand bomb proof ~ extensive training (retired gaming horse) registered ~ loves children FREE to approved home ONLY 3 yr old Overo Quarter Horse mare 14.3 hand double registered (double blue eyes) very gentle bomb proof, ridden 4 times, started needs finishing, loves children, VERY playful $500 O.B.O. 10 yr old American Saddle Bred gelding 16.1 hands extremely gaited (gentleman) bomb proof ~ was a rescue, don’t know extent of training FREE to approved home ONLY These horses are FREE to approved homes ONLY – NO NEED TO CALL MEAT MAN Call Jeff 360-204-2024 I will leave you all to wonder how a 2 year old that has just been started can be “bomb proof.” But hey, for those of you who complain that you want to see a Fugly Horse of the Day, there’s your winner! Now for God’s sake, geld that critter before it makes more fugly little fat-necked, triangle-headed yaklets!
West Coasters: Horse Feed Recall!
From sfgate.com:
“Missouri-based Manna Pro Products announced Friday that it is voluntarily recalling Family Farm Complete Horse 10 horse feed, lot number 1006, because it may contain potentially harmful levels of the medication monensin sodium, or Rumensin.
The feed was distributed Jan. 11 through Jan. 21 to retailers in California, Nevada and Oregon.
No illnesses or deaths have been reported and retailers have removed it from their stores, but the company says customers who purchased the product should stop feeding it immediately.”
Please share this with your friends in those states – thanks, all!
Now read Shiloh’s blog entry today: This really makes me furious, but at least he is at a quality rescue. If you would like to send them a donation toward his vet and farrier care, it would be very welcome. Poor little dude! You can go to Shiloh Horse Rescue to make a donation.
Even pigs can’t live like that!
Today’s train wreck, from Copperopolis, California…we have nine mares and a stallion (the stallion is the one in the DOG KENNEL) living in a slop that I don’t think PIGS could live in, and local authorities claim they cannot do anything because the horses are being fed.
Does this look fed to you?
Nice fence, douchebags!
This is not a stallion facility.
How would you like to live in this?
From Rehorse Rescue: “There are 10 horses, 9 mares and a stallion in Copperopolis, Ca living in these horrific conditions. These horses were brought to our attention in January of 2010. At that time we were advised by Calaveras County Animal Control that the owner had until February 2010 to improve the living conditions for these horses or they would be taking legal action. We offered our help at that time to Animal Control as well as the owner to take all of these horses. A concerned citizen emailed us these pictures taken yesterday and Wednesday.”
Um, it’s almost February of 2011 and I am quite certain there has not been any improvement. I am trying to get the exact address now, so that it’s worth it to call and complain, but this is clearly a situation where the living conditions are so unsanitary and improper as to warrant seizure.
This is good timing on the story — I think someone just asked me in the blog comments if A.C. can take your animals if they look ok, just because your place is messy. Well, messy is one thing — a pig sty is another. Calaveras County should most certainly be able to seize these animals. I’m guessing they just don’t want to be saddled with them.
P.S. When your stallion is in a dog kennel, it is a good sign that YOU DO NOT HAVE anywhere to keep a stallion! Yes, I am dying to know the name of the asshat and if s/he thinks they are a breeder. Good grief…
Off topic but I know we have dog lovers here. Ollie is an 8 year old Staffordshire and Shy-Shy is a 4 year old Lab mix and unfortunately their mom, who is far, far younger than I am, has cancer and is not doing well at all.
These guys need a new home and it would be awesome if they could stay together. They live with cats and are fine, but she does not know how they would do with children or other large dogs. They are very affectionate and mellow — there is a lot of video available if you’re interested. They are currently in Florida but she is based out of Los Angeles so odds are she could get them to you nearly anywhere if you were the right home. If you are looking to adopt a couple of dogs, and you really want to do a good deed for someone who needs to give them up through no fault of her own, e-mail Carolyne at octoberfire13@aol.com.
Finally, I bet this will get guessed quickly, but which Enumclaw kill pen survivor is this? He is 13 years old, over 17 hands and looking for a home! He does have a club foot, so flat work only, please. Contact Second Chance Ranch if you’re interested!
I have a better idea: Let’s shoot HIM
One of my readers posted this link. Warning, dead horse pic at link:
450 Horses Starving to Death in Montana
James Leachman is blaming the farm managers. “He said Friday evening that he expects to be vindicated. He said Turk Stovall, who is managing the Home Place Ranch with his wife, Jenny, has been interfering with the horses…Leachman said the Stovalls are jealous of his skills with genetics and for years have been out to get his ranch and his Crow tribal leases.”
It’s like a broken record. They’re JEALOUS because I’m SUCH AN AMAZING HORSE BREEDER. They’re making it all up to get my horses!
I know you will all be shocked to see that he doesn’t have these SUPER VALUABLE horses papered. Read this Complaints Board. See, AQHA, THIS is your problem. This is the kind of person you NEED to kick out – permanently.
Oh, and Leachman flatly denies his horses are being neglected.
At this point, the police have decided to deal with it by shooting the horses who seem to be in the worst shape. “On Jan. 15, Peila, along with a deputy county attorney, two sheriff’s deputies and a Montana Department of Livestock manager, returned to the ranch with legal authority to deal with the worst of the horses. The vet had Yellowstone County Sheriff Lt. Kent O’Donnell mercy shoot an old bay mare that Peila called a “sack of bones.” The mare lies in a prairie dog town in the Fighter pasture, but the body hadn’t been touched yet — the coyotes, cougars and magpies were apparently spooked off by the hum of the high-voltage power lines overhead.
O’Donnell also shot a mare that had been walking on her ankle bone for a year or more after apparently breaking her leg as a baby.”
And of course, Dickweed thinks his horses are worth SO MUCH MONEY…even though they’re in Three Strikes Ranch condition. He was supposed to sell them off last year, when his ranch got foreclosed, but he wouldn’t. “After telling a bankruptcy judge last winter that he had no income after the collapse of the Leachman Cattle Co., and a price collapse in the horse markets, Leachman said he would hold his annual fall Hairpin Cavvy sale.
That didn’t happen.
“I planned on having a sale this fall, I just couldn’t have it. Sure, I could have it if I wanted to sell my horses for 200 bucks,” he said in December.”
I don’t care what you WANT. You lost your right to a vote when they started starving, you miserable piece of shit! And $200 is wishful thinking given their condition.
Four hundred and fifty horses. How many do you suppose have papers, or have ever been handled at all? Uh-huh. I’m sorry, at this point, Lt. O’Donnell, you need to shoot Mr. Leachman and make it look like an accident. THAT would be a constructive way of dealing with this situation!
I’m sorry. I believe in personal freedom about 95% of the time. But I want you to have to submit proof of financial responsibility if you want to own more than 50 horses. I don’t see any way that we can continue to clean up these large-scale train wrecks. Who can afford it?
Don’t want your business nosed into? Keep your numbers down. Simple.
If you’re near Nevada and looking for something cute with spots, check out Lobo at Shiloh Horse Rescue. He is just coming four and they have started him under saddle after rescuing him from the kill pen last year and gelding him (hooray!) As you can see, he is quiet and doing very well. I’m sure he was bred by some Krazy Kolor breeder who thought he was going to be worth money because of the spots (Shiloh saved him for $260, so that’s what spotted young stallions are worth at auction, even chunky ones). Now he is well on his way to a future and a loving home. Contact Shiloh for more info!
Ignorance: It doesn’t improve with age!
Remember my blog Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? I thought it would be interesting to look these folks up and see what they are doing today. They took their old site down but now have two new ones. Scary stories of horses unfortunate enough to have been theirs are here
So let’s see, they are still delusional about what their horses are worth. $20 grand for what is arguably the most butt-fugly National Show Horse I have EVER seen? But read the copy…She goes back to the great Nazeer! Well, damn, let me write a check, because that isn’t common AT ALL.
It isn’t often you manage to get a foal with the WORST qualities of both breeds…but you guys did it! I mean…JUST LOOK AT IT!
Oh and it already has a baby. OF COURSE.
Now, remember the filly that I was hoping one of you would save from the first post? Well, nobody did and here is the update: “Dancin on Taj AKA Lilly is a 2006 gray thoroughbred filly lilly came to STA as a scrawny 2 yr old. Lilly has much potential but not as race horse (thank god) we fattened her up and put some muscle on her . After a break we started lilly under saddle she was so misbehaved(bucking and kicking and trampeling) that we started to lose are hopes for her but with lots and lots of patience and time we got her on track.”
By “on track” it appears they meant “climbing over pallets trying to break a leg.” That certainly is what it looks like. I’m scared. Don’t you all just want to send your horse to them for training now?
Oh and then I found THIS story on their site. Now, this is some friend of theirs but it is just a brilliant description of people who have no fucking business owning a horse, ever:
“An unexpected tragedy occurred Saturday Oct 24th, 2009. A good friend of STA’s manager, Jessica Bailey, owned a 20 month & 2 day old 1/4 arab gelding named Nelje Of The Sun, aka Sunny, who was injured on Wednesday, October 21st, because he slipped and fell sideways into the ditch between the barn and a tree. Poor Sunny started to thrash about and try to escape, but with no luck. He started to panic and throw his head, smashing it into the side of the barn and leaving blood smears everywhere. When Jean, the owner, finally went outside and realize what had happened, she called her friends over immediately for help. They tried to get poor Sunny out, but he was just wedged in too well. So they called the East OIympia fire deptartment for help moving this big animal out. While Jean and neighbors waited for the arrival of the fire department they thought of something…they tied a rope around Sunny’s girth area and pulled with an ATV and got him out. Upon arrival of the fire deptartment, the inexperienced firefighters tried ripping young Sunny to his feet, but with no luck. Jean called the vet and had them come out and check Sunny out. He had some cuts on his legs and on the side of his head. But the worst thing was that the vet suspected head trauma, but they said it SHOULD heal. So Jean had the vet out a couple times a day to visit Sunny and see how he was doing. But after 3 days, Sunny was still laying in the field. He couldn’t get up. So Jean contacted Jessica in desperate need of help. Jessica headed over to Jean’s immediately to check Sunny out. She called some people and got a group of people out including Jessica’s boyfriend, her mother, her moether’s friend, some of Jean’s friends, a vet, and the Rochester Fire department (Rockester fire dept. is very experienced in large animal rescue). They conjured up a rope harness and put it around Sunny’s body and hooked the harness to the front-loader on a tractor that was sure to pick Sunny up. They got the horse up in the air and tried to get him standing, but with no success. So they gave it a second, then a third. Still no luck. It appeared that Sunny didn’t even know he was in the air…it was concluded that he had severe neurological damage to the brain stem. He wasn’t even aware they lifted him completely off the ground. Everyone was was extremly concerned for young Sunny. The vet recommended having him put down but Jean was reluctant until the vet explained everything to her and why she should make the choice to have Sunny finally set free. Jean chose to send poor, young Sunny to the lush green pastures, and mever-ending skies of horsie heaven. Jessica and Jean sat with Sunny while the vet prepared to release Sunny’s spirit. Jessica held his beautiful face and scratched his nose, while Jean was holding tight around his neck and burrowing her face into his beautiful coat. Right before Sunny was completely gone, Jessica whispered to him, “You’ll be free soon, baby boy. I love you Sunny.”
AFTER THREE DAYS, HE WAS STILL LAYING IN THE FIELD?
AFTER THREE DAYS, HE WAS STILL LAYING IN THE FIELD?
AFTER THREE DAYS, HE WAS STILL LAYING IN THE FIELD?
I’m sorry, I must stop typing now. My head has exploded…and again, I am left wondering why we can’t have a equine ownership license if we can have a driver’s license?
