Category: rescue horses

>Horse Breeder Couldn’t Take Care Of Animals
POSTED: 6:24 pm EDT April 29, 2011
UPDATED: 6:36 pm EDT April 29, 2011

QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY, Md. — Several Maryland horse farms and rescues are working to treat more than 150 neglected and malnourished horses that were taken from a farm in Queen Anne’s County.

The Polish Arabian horses were taken from Canterbury Farms in Centreville on Friday. Rescuers said a horse breeder there couldn’t take care of her facility, and the horses started to breed on their own.

An anonymous call led to the rescue.

“This is the worst case in Maryland’s history, as far as sheer quantity,” said Marci D’Alessio of Days End Farm Horse Rescue. “We did an impound last year of 26 in Garrett County, and we thought that was large. Within this month, we’re going to exceed the number we took in all of last year.” “I can’t wait for two months from now to see that their ribs aren’t showing so much. They’ll be so much healthier.”
– Elizabeth Tate Winters, Paradise Stables LLC

11 News learned that some of the horses are 300 to 400 pounds underweight and in bad shape.

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>Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:15 am

Horse owners sentenced in animal cruelty case By Brandon Oland, Times Staff Writer Carroll County Times

The owners of 26 horses impounded and taken to Days End Horse Farm Rescue last May were sentenced to 90 days of prison in Garrett County District Court.

Richard Ray Friend and Carol Friend pled guilty to seven counts of animal cruelty for failing to provide sufficient food, drink, shelter and veterinary care for the horses. Nineteen similar counts were dismissed in a plea agreement, according to a Days End Horse Farm release.

All 90 days of Carol Friend’s sentence were suspended. Richard Friend had 70 days of his sentence suspended. Both were placed on three years of probation.

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A mustang named Cowboy was recently running wild in the Grantsville area. Local farmers let Cowboy graze on their property, but when late fall arrived they became concerned for his welfare and contacted the Garrett County Humane Society.

Nancy Trotta at Railey Realty has a horse farm in the area and her contacts called and shared Cowboys story and possible fate. Nancy in turn contacted all the agents and staff in the Railey office and asked for help.

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Seems like the rescue horses are doing much better and they’re making new friends;

from the Baltimore Sun:

Even as she toiled at a Woodbine farm Thursday in the relentless heat and humidity, Paula Jordan said she and three other female inmates were grateful to the owners for allowing them “a little taste of freedom.”

Jordan, a 41-year-old Baltimore resident convicted of second-degree assault, is a member of a newly formed crew dispatched from the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women to pitch in twice a week with maintenance on the 58 acres of rolling pasture at Days End Farm Horse Rescue.

The nonprofit organization long known for giving horses second chances at life is turning a spotlight on prisoners in need of the same opportunity.

“I made wrong choices and I’m paying the consequences,” said the single mother of three who is serving a six-year sentence at the Jessup prison and is slated to be released in October 2011.

“We accept that we will be working in the fields for now, but I love animals,” Jordan said eagerly. “We met some of the horses Tuesday and learned the ways they communicate. This will be a good learning experience.”

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From Staff Reports
Cumberland Times-News

GORMAN — Authorities have filed charges against the owner of 26 starving horses that were found on a farm in Gorman.

Denise Lohr of the Garrett County Humane Society said Richard Friend of Oakland faces 18 counts of animal cruelty. Lohr said authorities planned to serve Friend with the charges Tuesday.

Friend has not responded to an interview request from the Times-News.

The Humane Society took possession of the horses, as well as 18 cows and six goats May 13. Lohr said one horse had to be euthanized, but the rest of the animals are recovering. It was the largest number of animals ever seized by the county Humane Society in a single incident.

An investigation of the King Wildesen Road property turned up skulls and other remains of at least 17 animals in various stages of decomposition.

The live horses are being kept at Days End Farm to recover, with the goal of adopting them out when they are healthy. The cattle and goats are being kept on another farm adjacent to the Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine.

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