Meet Slim's friend Jamie!

Jamie was bought at the Napoleon auction. She is another Turn 3 Ranch horse seized and later sold by Jackson County Animal Control. Jamie's Coggins papers say she is a 2 year old, but she is a yearling. She also MAY be pregnant due to the rescue's mismanagement. (According to pre-trial testimony, the stud colts were separate from the mares and fillies at the time of seizure, but were later put together by rescue volunteers.) It is very dangerous to mother (this girl is still a baby herself) and foal to breed a filly this young. It just isn't done by responsible caretakers.

Ribs showing, distended wormy belly apparent (she had bloodworms, ascarids and tapeworms):


Hooves are simply atrocious ... cracked, overgrown and flared ... where was the farrier that JCAC claimed it needed $1,400.00 for:


Jamie was lucky enough to find a good home where three weeks of proper care has resulted in a much healthier and happier horse. Here she is on October 13:


There is no excuse for JCAC to have let these horses that they claimed there was a need to SEIZE from their rightful owners, to clearly go without basic hoof care, without routine scheduled deworming, without adequate feed to put flesh on their ribs for winter.

It has been proven that people can do these things with visible results in just three weeks ... what has JCAC done for them in six months?

Gotten them knocked up by unknown studs, so as babies they can have more babies, unplanned and undocumented? Proof coming in that this happened post-seizure. (It is in the testimony, just need to look it up.) Matt and Jim were breeding their older broodmares to high-dollar well bred stallions, not indiscriminately letting unproven young colts mount yearling fillies in the field.

Thanks Hilltophunter for these photos of Mattie and Jamie.