Re: RC: CA Slaughter horses

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

That's kinda what I was thinking. I know the "killer buyers" around here are 
really just traders. If they can't find a buyer after running the horses 
through several sales that's where they end up, though. So the rescues are 
still a good thing.
The worst part is the "closed truck" uncoggins horses--they also sometimes 
end up being resold untested.


>From: "Broken Bell" <broknbel@compuwise.net>
>To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
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>I didn't want to say this, but I can't keep quiet any longer.
>Those "slaughter-bound" horses that are in a "feedlot" in California are 
>horses that are chosen by horse traders for the specific purpose of 
>marketing to people on the internet who are interested in saving horses 
>from slaughter.  How can there be a feedlot in a state where transport to 
>slaughter is a felony?  And, if it really was a feedlot, why aren't these 
>so-called "rescuers" gathering evidence to put these felons behind bars?
>I asked this question just after Proposition 6 (the law that made transport 
>to slaugher across state lines in CA a felony) & was told in very angry 
>words by the Arabian Horse Rescue Network that if she and Gail Garrett of 
>TIER reported these individuals, it would end the good relationship they 
>had between themselves and the "feedlot" owners (who are actually just 
>savvy horse traders who've found a great way to market thier "product").  
>Leonard and Slim, the two main traders, know what sells, and they know 
>people wanting to rescue horses will go for a papered horse faster than 
>they will an unpapered horse, and they can ask more for it.
>
>Who knows how many of these beautiful, papered (& non-papered) Arabs would 
>wind up in the "feedlot" in the first place if they didn't have "dedicated 
>rescuers" waiting to sell them on the internet.
>
>Antoinette
>
>


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