Here's my take on what a real rescue does:
1. Takes in horses who are neglected, abused, or headed for slaughter. JCAC: seized predominantly healthy horses, allegedly neglected many of them for six months, sent them to slaughter via livestock auction in September
2. Does ALL the vet work...at their own expense. JCAC: bills previous owners and then subsequently Jackson County taxpayers for hundreds in unspecified veterinary expenses, as well as human hospital/medical expenses that should be paid by worker's comp
3. Does ALL the farrier work including remedial work and special shoeing...at their own expense. Does not spend more time begging for $ on message boards than caring for horses. GodDAMN, those Friends of Barbaro have created a whole batch of monsters, it's ridiculous. Farrier work? Those cracks, chips and flares, all the defendants' fault, we've ONLY had these horses for six months, how could we possibly do more, we SAVED them from STARVATION after all ...
4. Once the horse is ready, evaluates its training level and honestly advertises it based upon that evaluation. JCAC: allegedly makes fraudulent or just plain ignorant claims on Coggins papers (wrong ages, wrong breeds), apparently does not handle horses other than whatever may have caused them to become headshy and prefer men to women, claims a horse that is a known rear-and-flipper is "saddle broke" and fails to mention mares and fillies as young as a year have all been exposed to unknown studs while under their care
5. If the horse is unhandled/untrained, provides training before adopting the horse out so that the horse may have a better chance at a happy future. Find a way to keep a too-big halter on them to run them through the auction with, no need to handle their feet in six months' time, deworming them would mean getting awful close to those teeth so no thanks ... allegedly that is
6. Does not adopt out without an in-person site check, reference check including vet/farrier, and legally binding contract forbidding resale and requiring a standard of care that is to be maintained. JCAC: sell to anyone with $100.00 cash, even including known slaughter or "kill" buyers at the livestock auction according to witnesses ... as long as they sign papers stating that they won't go back to those dreadful accused torturers!! Why do they even need a trial? Everything printed in the papers MUST be true. They printed just what we told them to! (my opinion)
7. Conducts follow-up visits at reasonable intervals to ensure care is being maintained. Yeah, right. Hey, JCAC, let's see all of those horses today that you sold at Napoleon in September. How many went to slaughter in Canada? How many were so infested with worms that when their well-intentioned owners gave them a full dose of dewormer, fully expecting their rescued horsey to be up to date on everything, it passed at least three different kinds of internal parasite and could have died from intestinal blockage from the die-off? I can show you three horses that look better just three weeks after being "rescued" from JCAC!
8. Never takes in more horses than it can care for and keep everything up to date on. Oh. Em. Gee!
9. Maintains its own premises in the same condition it expects from its adopters - i.e. clean stalls, safe fencing, no hazards in the pasture. Does not whine about having soooo many horses and not enough help and make excuses for their own place being a shithole. Or, simply bill previous owners and consequently your taxpayers for repairing property that was leased by the defendants, rather than move horses to sites deemed "safer" by the powers that be. The property owner is grateful, I'm sure. Claim that the defendants were keeping the horses amid the trash that was outside the paddock area, may as well allegedly let them out there for media photos just to be sure. Inform the media that CASH MONEY, not goods or services, is all that these poor suffering horses really need.
10. Never disposes of a horse it has failed to place via a dealer or auction. Is unafraid to euthanize a horse who is crippled and suffering, or who is so mentally unpredictable that its chances of finding a safe home are close to zero. JCAC: euthanize a horse who is suffering due to injuries that allegedly occurred while the horse was under your care, namely when the young studs were released into the general population, without contacting the owners (horses still owned by Matt and Jim at this point) who find out after the fact.
Those are my minimum standards for real equine rescue. Anything else, in my never-humble-opinion, is just a variation of horse dealing with a warm & fuzzy marketing spin because that helps sales. Sales? Oh yeah, that's why JCAC needed to get their hands on all the horses' registration papers immediately, because they were so valuab... er, I mean, because they were so neglected! Yeah, that's it.
I'm still shocked about the numerous $15.00 delivery charges on the bond money breakdown ... it would appear that every week, JCAC needed to have donuts delivered to the farm! But wait, there weren't enough ordered for all of the horses ... that's hardly fair.
Look for yourself ... on 5/22, 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, 6/26, 7/3 and 7/10 there is an itemization for 25 rolls at $.50 each, and a $15.00 delivery fee on the same date. If I'm wrong, by all means, explain what this charge IS for then ... that's $192.50 and I'm thinking only a government authority would pay more to have something delivered each week than the actual item costs.
Could have bought 64 tubes of dewormer with that much money. I'm just sayin'.
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