Disgusted!

Last night I attended a public horse auction. Some of them had been seized by Jackson County Animal Control back in March for neglect. They looked okay. But these weanlings were born weeks and months after the seizure, so no one has handled or cared for them except AC and their volunteers.

You could feel ALL of their ribs, every young weanling there. They have their "foal coats" still, normally they shed those out within a few months and should have had a summer coat giving way to a winter coat by this time. They have no fat layer, you can see their shoulder and hip bones, their rump sinks on either side of the tailbone where nearly any horse would have a fat pocket.


They ALL had wormy bellies, but there was one poor colt there, that if you didn't know he was a weanling and a stud colt you would think he was pregnant ... just a sickening infestation of internal parasites. They were listless and dragged their toes when they walked.

Now answer me this, who will report Animal Control for neglect?