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131 horses seized from Greene County property

By The Associated Press

Published: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:00 AM CST

REPUBLIC, Mo. - More than 130 starving horses have been seized from a Greene County property and their owner arrested, the Humane Society of Missouri said Sunday.

It took 13 1/2 hours and 16 trailers to haul the 131 horses _ mostly paints _ off the 180-acre property outside Republic, the Humane Society said in a news release.

The Greene County Sheriff's Office arrested the owner Friday and got a search warrant Saturday that allowed investigators onto the property. It was not immediately clear what prompted the arrest of the horses' owner. He was being held Sunday in the Greene County jail on unrelated warrants.

Six dead horses were found, and many of the surviving animals were thin to emaciated with open wounds. Investigators found little to no pasture for grazing and no other sources of food, the release said.

"Some of the horses were trying to eat old empty sacks of alfalfa or grain," said Debbie Hill, director of rescues and investigations for the Humane Society. "There was absolutely no food available."

After examining some of the horses, a veterinarian determined that the horses would not make it through the winter and many were in need of immediate medical attention.

Rescuers _ as many as 20 to 30 at a time _ worked through Saturday night to load the horses into trailers, Hill said.

About a dozen of the sickest horses _ many of them under 6-months-old _ were transported to the Humane Society of Missouri's Longmeadow Rescue Ranch in Union. Two have been transferred to a veterinary hospital.

The Carthage Humane Society has agreed to take 31 of the animals for evaluation and treatment. The rest of the horses have been taken to an undisclosed location in Greene County, Hill said.


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