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have you tried calling the local horse rescue group? or userl? www.ncerl.com/  they have contacts all over the united states. and lastly, if you really feel it needs help, and you cant get the animal control to do anything about it, call the news, and make a scene, its a hard road, but it usually works. i do want to point out that if you file a report, and dont do it anonymously animal control is REQIURED by law to go investigate, and the report from that investigation is public record, and you can go down there, with a valid picture i.d .and pick it up anytime.
you can also try justice for the animals http://www.justiceforanimals.org/ they are a wonderful group :)
please keep me updated :)

Gerald Williams <ctghw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I would go and get the horse or feed it grass
>  hay or steal it in the dead of
> night. Has anybody talked to this person? Cindy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mary Krauss
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:39 PM
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC] Not exactly Animal Cops, was Humane Society (OT)
>
> You all tell tales of overzealous Humane Society offices while I  
> can't get a single rescue group to interfere with a local man whose  
> elderly horse is emaciated, crippled, and lacks shelter.  How do you  
> get these guys off their duffs?
>
> Here's the summary:  A friend of a friend's father-in-law is the  
> eccentric man who owns the horse.  The daughter-in-law is horrified  
> by its condition but is scared to do anything because of family  
> politics.   (This sounds wimpy but if you knew the family she married  
> into you'd understand perfectly.)  So, MY friend says she's going to
>   
> call, but, unbeknownst to me, doesn't.  Several weeks later I ask  
> what happened.  She confesses that she didn't call.  I sigh, say,  
> fine, I don't know the guy, I'll call.
>
> I called animal control and the humane society.  Neither will even  
> investigate.  I told them the approximate location, plenty of details  
> to find the place (e.g., "turn right on X street, his house is at the  
> end of the road).  They said they needed the exact address.  I say,  
> fine, I and my three little kids will drive down the scary man's  
> private road to see if we can find the exact address, stay on the  
> line please.  I drive down the spooky, loooong road, past over a mile  
> of mountains of collected junk--we're talking pipes and culverts big  
> enough to be used on the 520 floating bridge--until we see the  
> house.  There's no number of course, so we drive back, and read the  
> guy the two addresses on the mailboxes for the private drive.  He 
>  
> says, "we need the exact address."  I say, "ok, I gave you twice what  
> you need."  He then explained that he couldn't even file my report  
> because my friend was the person who was making the complaint.  (The  
> one who had not called).   He said he needed her to call because  
> she'd seen the horse.  I cheered up and said perkily, "oh, perfect,  
> I've seen the horse too."  He asked, "in the past week?"  I admitted  
> that it had been several weeks but that I'd asked the daughter-in-law  
> that morning if the horse was still in miserable shape and she'd said  
> yes, he was still limping around the junk-filled property, with  
> hooves that were turning up, an obvious injury to one front knee, and  
> with every rib showing, and that there was still no shelter.  In  
> fact, a neighbor had gotten mad at the owner for letting his horse  
> wander so the man had tied it to the fence by the neck for the past  
> three days with no water (during
>  which time there was a horrific ice  
> & wind storm.) He said that isn't good enough; it's hearsay.  I said  
> it wouldn't be hearsay if he were to go check the horse for himself.   
> Then I sighed and said fine, I'll tell my friend to call you.  He  
> said that I should explain to her that she needed to know that she  
> had to be certain enough to be willing to go to court to testify  
> against the owner in court, and to risk being fined if the horse were  
> judged to be in satisfactory condition.
>
> Despite his dire warnings, my friend finally called.  She called me  
> back, amazed, and said she didn't know what else she could have  
> said.  He said SHE had to have seen the horse in the past 24 hours.   
> She was on a car-trip in another state.....
>
> I am utterly mystified.  The kicker was when he whined, "Ma'am, we  
> only have 4 officers" when I said he could have driven by and checked  
> the horse himself in the amount of time we'd
>  been we'd been on the  
> phone.  I finally said, "I do not understand, are you afraid to go  
> there?  The guy's an off-the-grid whacko but he's not a dangerous  
> whacko.  He's not going to shoot anyone."  That hit a nerve dead-on.   
> He was too scared to go investigate.  Can't they take a cop or  
> something??  I'm going to go shoot the horse myself pretty soon if I  
> can't figure something out.  Ok, I'm not going to shoot the horse.   
> But what the heck can I do at this point??
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> Mary K.
>
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