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2008
WILL THIS BE THE  YEAR OF THE HORSE?

2008 has not been a good year for America's horses! Our Mustang herds are continually being reduced under the guise of management - large numbers of domestic horses, of all breeds and ages, are ending up dying on the slaughter house floor.

The economy and rise in fuel and feed has forced many a loving horse owner to seek new homes for their companions. Unfortunately, the newspaper ads for "free horses" or "Cheap Horses" has jumped tremendously.  Owners, desperate, to find a home for a horse they can no longer feed, can and are taken in by kill buyers. Kill Buyers, who scrounge through every newspaper looking for these type of horses. Horses, where the profit is high, as all it cost them was a promise to give the horse a good home. A beloved 20 year old mare, didn't end up the pet of a little girl, but was loaded on a slaughter truck on a trip to hell. 

Little Susie's horse ended up on the slaughter house floor, not in the green pasture that was promised. 

Her family happy about her new home, would stare in horror at her lifeless body, when they had been promised a loving home. Not all end up this way, but a free or cheap horse is fodder for a kill buyer.  People have to take the responsibility to check out where their companion horse is going.  Of course, not all horse owners care.  They consider horses, in the realm of used cars, broken down vehicles, or throw-aways.  Horses are expendable and cheap, they have no regard for the animal, regardless the years that horse has given them.  No compunction in sending a horse, that has faithfully served them, their family and possibly their grandchildren to auction, for that last dollar.  I have seen this time and again.  The horse, trusting its owner follows them into the auction area, where the smell of blood and terror is so thick it sticks to you, but trusting their owner they follow. They are put in a small pen by themselves or maybe with others, their halter is removed, and they are abandoned.  Not even a small caress of farewell, as the human they have loved turns away and abandons them.  There calls of distress, never answered or even acknowledged. "Just like taking out the garbage!"  These abandoned horses can be any age or temperament.  Their owners won't even take the time to "walk" them through the auction ring, in hopes of getting a good home for them.  Out of mind, out of sight. 

These horses know they are being abandoned, they know, and they grieve!  Heads hung down, some just close down, others become, so terrified, they do harm to themselves and others, the younger ones don't understand, but they feel the fear and despair.  Mares, heavily pregnant are uneasy, and nervous.  Some, close to delivery, will abort their foals on the Kill trucks. 

Some are lucky enough to find a family or a rescue to take them in.  Most are not, and begin a trip to hell, loaded into cramped semis ( double-deckers are illegal) and are on their way, no food or water, usually to Mexico, where they may stand for hours in merciless heat before unloading.  Ran into the slaughter chutes their lives end terrifyingly and horribly by the hands of humans. Pedigree, color, age means nothing here. They die.

Please take a moment to watch the slaughter video following this story, and please understand this is not fiction, but something that happens every day.  Please, don't turn away, the video is hard to watch.  We cannot bury our heads in the sand, while our American horses, mules, burros, and donkeys die.  YOU CAN HELP, YOU HAVE A VOICE AND A VOTE!  YOU CAN CHANGE THEIR FATE. 

Part two of this story continues on our  Information page
 

The photos on this page feature horses that were unwanted, starving or saved from slaughter.