By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:36:50 +0000

how dare you!!!??? How can you justify shooting a horse 5 to 6 times in the head hauling it up by one leg ang cutting it up while its still alive as humane!!! This is what happens in a slaughterhouse. Sir let me say to you if you raise horses and still condone this barbarism you have no business owning any horses much aless any animals!!!

By: Tap Duncan

Tap Duncan — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:55:05 +0000

Thanks again Mr Turley,
My wife and I raise Quarter Horses and Arabians, and we live in Illinois, and while we are not happy about the need to slaughter horses, we do understand that there is an inherent need to do something about older, violent, or orphaned i.e. ownerless horses. We have adopted several over the years, but we can’t adopt them all. However, horses are LIVESTOCK, plain and simple. That does not mean that we love them less, or treat them worse. Around here it costs about $15/day to feed and house a horse. Multiply that by the horses that are ownerless, and it is considerable. Cavells in Dekalb, Il did their very best to euthanize those horses humanely, and they did a good job. It was lights on, lights out. No pain, nothing. Most of the carcases went to zoos, not France. It seems some people would foresake one species for another, and that seems wrong, too. We’re not ghouls of death, we are people of common sense, involved in the horse industry for a combined 85 years. All one has to do is look at Kentucky, where people set their horses free because they couldn’t care for them, and now they are roaming and breeding like rabbits. Seems to us that we just made a hard choice worse.

By: Sheree

Sheree — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:14:29 +0000

My heavens, this is tragic. Thanks for bringing this to light.

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