Updates on Abused Horses
I had a horrible day at work due to an insubordinate Stoner II. Someone's getting his ass wrote up >:|
I found out why my leg wound won't heal over--there was something in it!!! It was the size of a large pea, and totally gross. Once I got that thing out, not so easy, the hole started shrinking dramatically. In ten minutes, it had shrunk a lot, in two hours it was the size of a pin-head. By morning, it had sealed over. I slept on my side last night and my leg didn't bother me for once! It may actually heal up now! So what was in my leg? I don't know!!!
Surprise, not, the 21 poor polo ponies that died thrashing and gasping for air from hemorrhaging lungs were given illegal drugs. Improperly made illegal performance enhancing drugs. Grrr. The team couldn't get their dope into this country, so they paid a pharmacy to mix some for them, and they screwed up. They call it "vitamins".
Since the FDA pretty much lets anything through if the pharmaceutical company pays them enough "incentives", that Biodyl stuff must be bad. There are reports of three endurance horses given Biodyl that also died the same way as the polo team.
So the pharmacy added too much of one ingredient. They won't say what, but I'm guessing it was probably an overdose of selenium, since that, while an essential horsey vitamin, is fatal over a very miniscule amount. When you are talking thousandths of a gram or less, it isn't hard to mess up. Our pastures are deficient in selenium, so we always have to supplement it. Though the potassium could have done it too. They had heart symptoms....
Those poor mares!
(Polo horses are almost exclusively female, as it is believed that male horses aren't smart enough for the game.)
Then there's the rich bastard in NY who starved a large number of pricey thoroughbreds, but claims it's not his fault that Mexicans can't count. Mexicans can't tell if a horse is thin, or if they are missing cause they are lying dead in a pasture from starvation, or tell their weaselly gringo boss to buy some fucking hay. SUUUUURE. Tell me again, why don't we hang people anymore?
(Those horses are being taken care of supposedly. It's much easier to get rescued if you are a broodmare worth a couple hundred grand. You know, as long as you have a working uterus. Otherwise you'll probably end up on a poncy Frenchman's plate.)
Also, rescue is going on now for the hundreds of starving wild mustangs at the 3Strikes Ranch. There were 37 stallions loose among the mares, so you can imagine how many of them are pregnant. Many of the horses are too weak to stand.
Someone said the shirtless mustang starver was told long ago that the land there was so poor he'd need 30 acres per horse, PER HORSE, and he still went out and bought another 217 horses to cram onto his property, which is quite extensive, but not enough for the amount of animals he had there. (A square tract that measures a quarter mile on each side is 40 acres. That's about the size of our farm. Our whole property for one horse.) The land is desert now, the horses pulled out the roots of everything there to try and live, and then ate the sand itself. There are two pits on the property according to the sheriff that have at least 60 dead horses in them.
There are pictures here:
(Warning for piles of dead horses)
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=1309
Horses finally getting some food:
http://s631.photobucket.com/albums/uu39/mustanglove12/
Some vets came out about a young horse that has been in their care that the Starver was claiming had been poisoned and died before he got caught. The poor thing was starving and sick from eating sand, so weak she couldn't stand and dragging herself along the ground on raw legs. What a tough baby. That one is okay at least.
I know most of us are overtaxed, but if you care about animals at all, they need hands and donations now. If anyone can spare anything, more details are at Cathy's blog. The comments have more emails and phone numbers:
http://fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com/
I found out why my leg wound won't heal over--there was something in it!!! It was the size of a large pea, and totally gross. Once I got that thing out, not so easy, the hole started shrinking dramatically. In ten minutes, it had shrunk a lot, in two hours it was the size of a pin-head. By morning, it had sealed over. I slept on my side last night and my leg didn't bother me for once! It may actually heal up now! So what was in my leg? I don't know!!!
Surprise, not, the 21 poor polo ponies that died thrashing and gasping for air from hemorrhaging lungs were given illegal drugs. Improperly made illegal performance enhancing drugs. Grrr. The team couldn't get their dope into this country, so they paid a pharmacy to mix some for them, and they screwed up. They call it "vitamins".
Since the FDA pretty much lets anything through if the pharmaceutical company pays them enough "incentives", that Biodyl stuff must be bad. There are reports of three endurance horses given Biodyl that also died the same way as the polo team.
So the pharmacy added too much of one ingredient. They won't say what, but I'm guessing it was probably an overdose of selenium, since that, while an essential horsey vitamin, is fatal over a very miniscule amount. When you are talking thousandths of a gram or less, it isn't hard to mess up. Our pastures are deficient in selenium, so we always have to supplement it. Though the potassium could have done it too. They had heart symptoms....
Those poor mares!
(Polo horses are almost exclusively female, as it is believed that male horses aren't smart enough for the game.)
Then there's the rich bastard in NY who starved a large number of pricey thoroughbreds, but claims it's not his fault that Mexicans can't count. Mexicans can't tell if a horse is thin, or if they are missing cause they are lying dead in a pasture from starvation, or tell their weaselly gringo boss to buy some fucking hay. SUUUUURE. Tell me again, why don't we hang people anymore?
(Those horses are being taken care of supposedly. It's much easier to get rescued if you are a broodmare worth a couple hundred grand. You know, as long as you have a working uterus. Otherwise you'll probably end up on a poncy Frenchman's plate.)
Also, rescue is going on now for the hundreds of starving wild mustangs at the 3Strikes Ranch. There were 37 stallions loose among the mares, so you can imagine how many of them are pregnant. Many of the horses are too weak to stand.
Someone said the shirtless mustang starver was told long ago that the land there was so poor he'd need 30 acres per horse, PER HORSE, and he still went out and bought another 217 horses to cram onto his property, which is quite extensive, but not enough for the amount of animals he had there. (A square tract that measures a quarter mile on each side is 40 acres. That's about the size of our farm. Our whole property for one horse.) The land is desert now, the horses pulled out the roots of everything there to try and live, and then ate the sand itself. There are two pits on the property according to the sheriff that have at least 60 dead horses in them.
There are pictures here:
(Warning for piles of dead horses)
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=1309
Horses finally getting some food:
http://s631.photobucket.com/albums/uu39/mustanglove12/
Some vets came out about a young horse that has been in their care that the Starver was claiming had been poisoned and died before he got caught. The poor thing was starving and sick from eating sand, so weak she couldn't stand and dragging herself along the ground on raw legs. What a tough baby. That one is okay at least.
I know most of us are overtaxed, but if you care about animals at all, they need hands and donations now. If anyone can spare anything, more details are at Cathy's blog. The comments have more emails and phone numbers:
http://fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com/