He had an illegible tattoo, and was estimated to be in his late 20s. “When I got to the property the bodies of dead horses were being loaded into a dumpster,” Proulx says. Horses were in immediate danger of dying one died in the night, and another after he was rescued, Proulx says. Since his rescue, he is doing well and gaining weight. This chestnut Saddlebred named Gentleman is 18.
Rescue organizations were: Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue, Central Virginia Horse Rescue, Traveller’s Rest Equine Elders Sanctuary, New Beginnings Horse Rescue, and Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue. The owner of the farm, Anne Goland, has been charged with 27 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty, according to the Washington Post, and was being held without bail.Īs prosecutors prepared their case, five rescue organizations worked tirelessly to triage endangered animals, focusing their attention on the living, doing their best to ignore the carnage. Proulx worked alongside several other horse rescues, whose operators lined up with trucks and trailers to remove approximately 80 horses during a raid on the 501 c 3 nonprofit horse charity led by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Oct. He was a 17-hand Saddlebred named Carl Meyers.” Unfortunately, he was beyond hope, and he had to be euthanized after his rescue. He was such a cool guy and he walked right on. “But as soon as (the rearing horse) saw the trailer and realized he was leaving, his whole personality changed. “There was one horse” who was terrified “and he was lunging over the stall walls trying to bite people as we walked horses onto a big, open-air stock trailer. “We’d shine a flashlight in a stall and there’d be walking skeletons staring back,” says Miah Proulx of Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue. Then the flashlights were switched on and narrow beams of light revealed the dead, near-dead and terrified horses of Peaceable Farms, in a scene described in media reports as “the most horrendous” scene of animal abuse. 20 by the County sheriff and attorney.Īt first there was only darkness and the putrid stench of death. This white Appaloosa was one of the horses at Peaceable Farms in Virginia who was euthanized following a raid on Oct.
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