Filip: You too.

I want to hear from Judge Filip, who gave these 80+ horses to Jackson County last summer, how he feels about the documented neglect they suffered at the hands of JCAC agents.

I want to know what he thinks about Summer's foal, where ever the poor thing may be now.

I want to know what he thinks of the sale by Jackson County of that beautiful, registered and well-bred chestnut Quarter Horse mare—sold as a grade horse, well below market meat price—at Napoleon, and the subsequent transfer of ownership to a kill buyer, who is known to have put Summer (and an unrelated stallion from the same sale) on a truck bound for slaughter facilities in Canada within days of the auction gavel falling.

They cared not about her eventual fate, or this would have been handled as a TRUE RESCUE is handled. Horses in need of rescue are:

• a body condition score of 1 or 2 (very thin) and not being treated, not 4 or 5 (ideal)
• legally obtained from the previous owner(s) after a trial and conviction
  
• rehabilitated by the rescuing group, not neglected by them
• adopted out to inspected, approved homes and followed up on...

• not allowed to be indiscriminately pasture bred
  
• not sold with papers belonging to other horses
• not sold with heavy infestations of at least three types of parasite
• not sold with cracked, chipped hooves, past due for routine care
  
• not sold at public auction, at or below "kill pen" (meat) prices

So, your honor, it is on you now. I want a public apology.

To the defendants, and to those horses that YOU helped to kill.

I'll be waiting.