Someone's Favorite Past Time Seems To Be Shooting A Horse With Paintballs

[Mata Hari]

Animal cruelty officials in Pennsylvania are investigating after a horse riddled with about 130 paintball remnants was found abandoned at a stable.

Officials from the Lancaster County SPCA tell LNP they were called to New Holland Sales Stables on Monday after the mare was found in a stall when sales ended for the day.

SPCA Executive Director Susan Martin says the 20-year-old horse was underweight and had been struck at close range. She says the horse was "in a substantial amount of pain when touched."

The horse hadn't been registered for Monday's sale and had no visible identification.

Martin says the horse appears to be an Appaloosa/Arabian mix and is blind in its right eye. It's expected to survive after a lengthy recovery.

The horse was taken to a Kennett Square facility operated under University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine.

I really hope they find the asshole(s) who did this. Pics @ link:

http://6abc.com/news/abandoned-horse-hit-with-about-130-paintballs/1247973/

 

[Satanica]

 

[lithiumgirl]

That would hurt...poor horsey!

 

[Sue sue]

It does hurt.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

This makes me cry like a baby.

There is a $1,000 dollar reward. Someone will talk.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

If we are lucky, the people who did it posted videos of it, because they think it was so damn funny to shoot paint balls at a little skinny old half blind horse.

 

[Mata Hari]

Arrest made!

http://6abc.com/news/man-charged-in-case-of-horse-shot-with-paintballs/1268774/

A man has been charged amid the investigation into an emaciated horse that was found to be pelted with more than 100 paintballs.

Phillip S. Price, 65, of Rhode Island, was charged by police in Lancaster County with animal cruelty for transporting the animal from New Jersey to the New Holland Sales Stables.....[

They haven't said he was the one who shot the horse but, either it will come out that he was, or he'll give up whomever it was.

 

[Satanica]

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertai...dopts-paint-covered-horse-ex-owner-backs-care

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — A horse adopted by Jon Stewart and his wife hadn't been shot more than 100 times by a paintball gun as previously reported but had been used as a canvas for children's finger-painting parties, its former owner said.

Doreen Weston said the horse, a white mare named Lily, was never injured. Her comments came the day the former "Daily Show" host's wife, Tracey Stewart, adopted the horse at a facility in Kennett Square. The Stewarts partnered with Farm Sanctuary last year to open an animal sanctuary at their farm in Middletown, New Jersey.

Lily was found seemingly abandoned at an auction stable in New Holland in March. Police said she was covered in paint and was extremely sore to the touch.

The abused-horse tale soon became a cause celebre, but the horse's previous owner said the story relayed by the Lancaster County SPCA that it was shot by paintballs is wrong. Tracey Stewart, meanwhile, said what happened to Lily shows too many people think animals are disposable.
[....]
the horse is about 35 years old and was acquired in the late 1990s. She said she wanted the horse euthanized because its quality of life was so poor because of deteriorating eyesight and bad teeth and she contacted a horse dealer to take it in February. She said she assumed the dealer would euthanize the horse but didn't tell him to.

The dealer, Phillip Price, of East Providence, Rhode Island, was convicted last week in New Holland of animal cruelty and other charges related to transporting a horse in poor condition. Price is on probation in Rhode Island after pleading no contest to animal cruelty in July, court records show. Messages left with Price's attorney weren't immediately returned Wednesday.


Weston contends the horse loved the kids' attention during the finger-painting sessions, saying it was "like a massage." She said she let officials know early on of the finger-painting but they let the paintball story persist.
[....]
The Lancaster County SPCA's director, Susan Martin, said she doesn't find Weston credible. She said Weston should have come forward weeks ago.

Martin said she's uncertain where the paintball injuries theory originated but it made sense because the horse flinched every time it was touched where it was splattered with paint.

Weston supplied photos of a February finger-painting party with a stained horse that looks like Lily and emails between her and her veterinarian about a treatment plan for the horse's eye issues.

After Lily was found at the New Holland stables, she was cared for by Penn Vet's New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, where Dr. Rose Nolen-Walston said an assessment showed the horse was malnourished and in need of emergency intensive eye care. The horse's right eye had to be removed.

Tracey Stewart said many people disregard animals when they can't make money off them or no longer need them.

"Probably what I'm more struck by is understanding that a lot of times people's relationship to animals is that they are disposable," she said, adding what constitutes humane treatment is changing. "And I think Lily's story will be a big part of telling why that's so necessary and important."

 

[Sejanus]

I hear the Stewarts place is quite remarkable for animals.

 

[Forensicwx]

She brought the horse to the auction and "assumed" they would euthanize it? Yeah, believable story, lady.

Even if her "kids finger painting" bullshit story is indeed true, what a disgusting way to leave an animal like that. Bring it. Drop it off. Assume they'll kill it for you.

The animal was found to be emaciated, her eye had to be removed and she needed intensive care. That disgusting woman just didn't want to pay the bill to treat her.

Boy. She looks beautiful now though, doesn't she?!
[doublepost=1466486474,1464676933][/doublepost]Lily passed away last week, under her favorite tree, being petted by those who loved her.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2016/06/horse_adopted_by_jon_stewart_sanctuary_dies.html

 

[Satanica]

 

[Keepalowprofile]

She sent the horse not caring the out come. She took the cheapest financial route she could.
Who fucking owns a horse for 30 years, bags out on the eye treatment sends it off on its journey with out a care in the world.
A CUNT, THATS WHO.

some may know and some may not, I was an animal control officer for 22 years. I totally believe the finger paint story. Yes, the horse was twitchy.
A scared horse will twitch. It has nothing to do with pain. That being said, I'm not saying tge horse was pain free. Lack of proper diet, a long trailer ride, improper handling and her age certainly could produce pain.
I'm not giving anyone a pass here.
Animal "rescues" love to make up horrific rescue stories. It brings in hoards of awareness to their cause in turn, that brings in truck loads of donations.

I believe the story about the kids painting on the horse. But that makes it worse. Not the painting part because I'm sure it was non toxic. What makes it worse. .. that horse loved the attention. She let a group of squeeling little girls do What they wanted and the cuntbag owner sent her off in a trailer crammed full of other horses not knowing her true fate. You don't do that to an animal you have had for 30 years, hells fire, you don't do that to any animal.