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Where is this horse and why is the story being censored?
If you haven’t already heard, there is a $1000 reward out for the return of Munition, a Thoroughbred gelding who was scammed out of his (admittedly gullible and should have known better) owner and now is in the hands of a kill buyer.
Urgently Seeking Stolen Thoroughbred Gelding
The story has gone far and wide, but the piece of the puzzle that is missing from most sources is the fact that Chri$ty of Another Chance to Avoid Working is involved. What a shocker, I know! The Alex Brown forum deleted the full story, as follows:
From: MaraNJPA 5:18 pm
To: ALL (154 of 154)
52919.154 in reply to 52919.137
This is Mara the TRUE owner. PLEASE resume your help at stophorseslaughter2010@yahoo.com. I will forward to email addresses of people that can help.
Comments, prayers please leave here at Alex Brown as there is no motive to delete these comments.
Hey Christy? If you are a rescue???? Why are you deleting my posts with all the information I have traveled cross-country with all the help of hundreds of horse lovers to attain? Have you heard of a subpoena?
My conclusion of the story is well based, well investigated by all types of experts locally and internationally, here is what I believed happened. Lets see if this is deleted?
“Hello, Yes I am Gina (aka Mara Feld). When I say I “believe” this is what happened to Munition I have been given several pieces of evidence from sources who have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Such evidence, as it was revealed to me piece by piece, have allowed me to conclude beyond any reasonable doubt that Chisty and Rick have hidden my horse. I don’t buy the “he’s dead story”.
Spud Noone was motivated to get Munition out of Kerri-On-Farm in Three Rivers (near Palmer, MA) after I clued in on Friday and had an unpleasant conversation with Spud.
The following Monday the 22nd at approx. 1pm my attorney called Spud Noone to suggest that we settle this out of court. At that point in time Munition was probably on Brian Moore’s truck on his way to “another chance”. Then Spud called either Beam or Moore or the Sheidys or Phil Shirk to let them know about the call from an attorney (as I am sure the phone records will show in court). Then the Sheidys freaked and were motivated to get Munition out of their hands in the fear the PA police would show up.
That is why they sold Munition right away (to make a buck) and that is why there is no picture of him on the AC4H page and that is why everyone says “he is dead”: because they think I will go away. But I will not.
Munition could be hidden, he could be abused, killed by Beam?, killed by Noone? killed by either Rick or Christy Sheidy? killed by Shirk? I will do anything to get this horse back. I am happy to compensate any new owner financially as well as anyone who helps to find Munition. Please bring Munition home!
As I stated previously this is what I “believe” happened. Anything and everything is on the internet and nothing can be believed without further research. If anyone has a problem with me being Gina (ie Noone, Beam, Moore, Sheidys, Shirk) that is between us and I will be happy to entertain any one of these people in a court case. I am just trying to find Munition. PLEASE HELP!
I have credible sources that know Noone, Beam, Moore, and Christy Sheidy make approximately $50,000 per week. This has been going on for a long time. These horses are STOLEN, sold as STOLEN PROPERTY, treated like RESCUE horses, when they HAD LOVING HOMES, SOLD AS STOLEN PROPERTY again across the country for big bucks coming into this circus of killers and swidlers.”
**note whe writes they are stolen since in PA they are bought under false pretense=stolen.
FHOTD back in: Mara, you were not smart in this situation and I think you realize that now. That said, thank God you are not going to let this go. Whether we can still save your horse or not, it is time the kill buyers and their cohorts, the sleazy, lazy bitches like $am and Chri$ty are held accountable for their scamming and their total disregard for equine life and for the human beings they scam. Neither of those women has ever lost one minute of sleep caring whether or not a horse went to kill as long as their pockets were well-lined and they did not have to get a (GASP!) real job. And Mara, I hope that you pursue this to the ends of the earth and make sure no one ever forgets this or trusts any of these individuals ever again.
And whether you’re a Christian or not…spare a few prayers for this poor horse. Miracles have happened before and he may yet be intercepted. He can’t go to Canada without quarantine, so have the quarantine facilities all been contacted? $1000 will do a lot toward making it worth someone’s while to find him. From the Examiner: “Munition is a seven-year-old, 16.3 bay thoroughbred gelding with a Roman nose but no white markings. His lip tattoo is G25782. There is a $1000 reward for his safe return. If you have information that could lead to his recovery, please contact Deborah Jones at Thoroughbred Protection, Identification and Advocacy at 714 843 9108 or via Email at djones612000@yahoo.com.”
Think you’re a great rescue? PROVE IT.
Long-time readers of this blog will remember the name of Celeita Kramer and the stories of the unfortunate horses who cross her path at her Crossed Sabers rescue.
You Win, Celeita. You Are The Craziest Rescuer Ever.
Scroll down to the second half of this post for a crazygram straight from Celeita!
The latest story is this one:
Celeita is currently busy on Angel Acres’ Facebook threatening to sue us all! She seems to have missed the memo that when you do not have hay money, you do not have lawyer money. Lawyer money is A LOT MORE than hay money, especially on the East Coast! (I am kinda hoping she sues me pro per, it would be about the best time I have ever had in my entire life.) Celeita’s arguments about how great her rescue is and how none of us have any evidence fail miserably, because she does not know who has been to her barn that is a blog reader and has adopted from her (and trust me, it has happened). She doesn’t seem to realize we HAVE documentation of her poor horse care, and even if local authorities haven’t nailed her yet, that documentation is there for use in defending any silly civil suit she cares to bring.
Overall, the main thing Celeita doesn’t realize when she makes these threats is that we have, like, a bazillion witnesses for our side.
Actually, everybody on the WHOLE INTERWEBZ thinks you’re a nut and has stories about you, Celeita!
The best part is that Celeita has now accused me and Jo Deibel of “being jealous.” I know this is so hard to believe, but neither of us wants to be a bat-shit crazy old hoarder who takes in too many horses, lies to adopters to get rid of them, and threatens to kill them in order to get donations. May lightning strike us both if either Jo or I have had a SINGLE MOMENT of wishing we could be Celeita Kramer! 
I told Celeita that if she can obtain GFAS Accreditation, I will write an apology blog and take back everything I have ever written about her. If you really want to argue that your rescue is well run and that your financial management is sane and sensible, let’s see you get accredited. Yes, there will be site checks (some of which you won’t know about or be able to prepare for) and yes, there is a financial audit. Jo was able to live up to their standard. So did Habitat for Horses. So did Equine Voices. So did Front Range. So did the Horse Harbor Foundation. If you are the President of a rescue, you need to apply. This is going to be the only way for remote donors to know for sure that you are doing it right, and it is going to help you get grants that allow you to keep doing it right. There is really no excuse for not applying. You think you are doing a great job? Prove it to the world.
Here is all the info you need.
Shiloh Horse Rescue is back to normal hours again after the sad loss of Tony Curtis last month. Here is some new video of Beau, a gorgeous red chestnut Thoroughbred gelding. Beau’s page is here. He is eight years old and ready to go home with a new adopter and learn some new skills. Check him out!
Excuses, excuses, excuses, and MORE excuses!
One excuse that is literally always pulled out of the hat when someone is found with starving horses is that they just rescued them that way from someone else. That is the case with the amusing, if incredibly lame, “defense” site started by Tania Herring’s mommy, who did not like that the meanies on the Interwebz had an opinion or two about her darling daughter.
Another blog with comments from locals
My Mommy Says You’re Mean and Shouldn’t Talk About Me Even Though I Starve and Neglect Horses!
As is usually the case with these kind of people, the defense tends to prove the prosecution’s side. I LOVE Mommy’s snarking about the vet in the case: “What I like the best…is the vet who was helping had never been on the place to look at horses for Tania before…In the horse world he is knowen as $100 dollar H….. this is because he won’t come to your place for less then $100.00. I won’t throw his name out there because we are taking the high ground.”
ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! OMG are you serious? You really think a vet is a bad guy because OMG he might actually want a WHOLE HUNDRED DOLLARS to make a farm call? Holy shit, send him my way, I can’t recall the last time I had a vet look at a horse for a mere hundred dollars, even splitting the call with others at the barn…that simply does not happen. Vet school is expensive and you’re paying for professional services. Again, horses are expensive and that is why your kid should not have had so damn many!
More from Mommy’s blog: “The 30 Horses seized were the Horses Tania had rescued…from other horse owners. She was providing medical care under the supervision of many veterinarians… Food,(the best in the state) Shelter and Rehabilition. Of course they didn’t look Good….It takes time to get a horse healthy.”
Can I ask just who the hell takes in THIRTY horses at a time? Just assuming that was even true, here are some questions for you, Mom:
1. List the thirty horses, their details and WHO THEY WERE TAKEN IN FROM. If Tania is not responsible for their condition, name names and addresses. Where did she get them? If they are from auction, there would be records. This is very simple. If she did not starve them, and let them get rain rot all over their bodies, WHO DID and why didn’t she document that and pursue prosecutions of those individuals? That is what rescuers do.
2. Are you smoking crack? How was Tania going to rehab THIRTY horses in poor condition at one time? A conservative estimate of the cost of refeeding an emaciated horse in Oregon would be $150 per horse per month. TANIA HAS THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH EXTRA TO DO THIS WITH? Plus money for vet, trimming, deworming, etc.? On top of caring for her own horses and her own personal expenses? NO ONE WHO HAS HORSES IS DUMB ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT.
By the way, showing Tania giving a “lesson” to a child with no helmet who cannot reach the stirrups is not exactly helping Tania’s reputation, Mom. It just makes her look exactly like what we already know she is – a lowlife backyard breeder, hoarder type faux rescuer, faux horse industry professional who could not get off her ass and clean her stalls or provide even basically decent care to her horses.
Of course, Tania has a lawyer (Thanks, Mommy!) who is making much about the search allegedly being illegal. Not that he can write a grammatically correct sentence, either. “I ask that you or county counsel explain to me the source of your authority to invite members of the news media to trespass Ms. Herring’s property.” Again, seriously? My boss would throw an eraser at me if I let that sentence leave our office in a letter. Good lord.
At one point, Mommy even argues that people are JUST JEALOUS because Tania wins at the shows. WTF? OK, APHA folks, has anyone actually seen Tania win at a show? Are you skeered she is gonna take your ribbons away? Yeah, I thought so.
So I guess Tania’s lawyer will drag this out for as long as possible, and I’m sure she’ll get a wrist-slap in the end. That’s pretty much how the system works. At this point, I only care that the horse community knows what she did and that you guys don’t sell her horses, no matter what. You know how they will be cared for.
And Mom, you’re not helping your kid. You’re just providing proof that the apple did not fall far from the tree!
For those of you who love Arabians, there is a new site that has been created to help rehome them if/when they get into jeopardy. Check out the Arab Rescue Database.
A skunk by any other name…still stinks!
When I started getting urgent e-mails about the 62 Icelandics dumped at a feedlot in Yakima that had to be bailed out immediately because THE TRUCK WAS COMING, I just knew I’d heard that line before and the location was the same. My suspicions were confirmed when a friend called that oh-so-famous kill pen in Zillah, Washington and was told she could not buy a horse directly from the kill buyer because “he didn’t want to cut $am out.”
What do I tell you guys? A leopard does not change her spots, and our old friend $amantha Milbredt/Panayotopolus (I have no idea how bad I butchered that, it’s early and I just started drinking coffee) is back hard at work, begging for money online (this was posted on EVERY Craigslist all the way down the West coast) so that she can collect double and triple for horses, some of which will undoubtedly go back onto the truck at a later date or get shot because, fuck, she sure as hell is not gonna feed them at her expense. Call it CBER, call it Rebel’s Equine Feedlot Sales, call it Phantom Meadows, it doesn’t matter. It’s the same old partnership of $am and Chuck, sitting around drinking beer and plotting to divest every soft-hearted person with an Internet connection of their retirement savings. Chuck, not being the brightest crayon in the box, doesn’t even try to hide his business relationship with the Queen of All Faux Rescuing. And amazingly, the Internet is STILL full of people who haven’t heard the history, so let me provide it for you yet again:
Another previous blog on CBER.
Former CBER “wonderful” foster home – cruelty charges.
Now, I do not know who dumped 62 Icelandics but I am SURE someone in the Icelandic community does. I mean, they are Icelandics, not Quarter Horses. This is going to come out if it hasn’t already. I haven’t had time to read all the drama elsewhere on this topic. I am completely baffled at why this person did not try to place them privately rather than hand them off to a kill buyer. I am pretty darn sure I could find homes for 62 Icelandics, too. They are rare enough and people think they are cool enough that it would be kind of like saying, hey, who wants a Coach purse, we have a couple dozen extra?
I hear they’re all off the lot. Of course they are. Happy Halloween to $am. She must be laughing her ass off hysterically as she drives around in her NEW truck and trailer…that some of you kind-hearted folks who just don’t do your research are paying for. Think about that next time you send money to a rescue with no history, that you know nothing about, that sure as hell isn’t GFAS accredited. Hell, if you don’t care where your money goes, you can send it to me. I’d like a BMW. At least I’ll really buy a BMW with it, and I promise it will have a great home!
Remember Zoe, the very cute Arabian mare pictured in this blog entry? Her kid moved on to a Thoroughbred and her next home did not work out so she is once again available. Very nice teenaged, extremely pretty and sound Arabian mare that does drill, has been shown 4-H and rides on trails and the beach. Seattle area. E-mail Juliane for info. Adoption fee/contract applies – good home is most important! Great all-around kind of mare for a teen to do a lot of different stuff with. Papers went poof along the way but I’d bet a thousand bucks this mare is well bred and probably straight Egyptian. The picture shown today is a recent one – she’s in fabulous condition and ready to go!
We’re a rescue, no wait, we’re a BYB!
Look, we’re a rescue! We have a 501(c)(3)!
Really! We’re a rescue! Look, here is one of our rescue mares!
No, wait. Maybe we’re a backyard breeder who is going to whore out our “rescue” mares (including the one above) to make more low end Thoroughbreds that all of the other TB rescues in the Seattle area will get stuck trying to find homes for.
This particular faux rescue is run by a father-daughter team. I love the description of the bad parenting the daughter survived, right on their web site: “Sarah was born with a gift. By the time she was 3, David found her fearlessly standing underneath his stallions, cleaning their stalls with her pink wheelbarrow and little green shovel without a care in the world – and she hasn’t stopped loving and taking care of horses since. ” Yeah, the gift is she has a guardian angel making sure she did not get her head kicked in, and that sure as heck wasn’t you, you moron!
And things are no better now. Go look at their lesson page. Triple bareback and no helmets. That’s a pony ride and a pretty scary, high-risk one at that. Not a riding lesson!
Get a damn job, Sarah. That’s how you feed your horses over the winter. Not by creating more mouths to feed!
P.S. If your 20 year old mare even gets pregnant, she is not gonna produce the next Zenyatta. You are smokin’ crack if you think that.
P.P.S. How the hell does a horse teach small children how to survive in the wilderness??? What, does it teach them how to make a fire?
