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Has anyone seen this this morning?

Posted by K on 6/3/2005, 8:40 am
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I see these horses every single day of the week.
FINALLY something was done.
Read on:
PRESS ENTERPRISE 6/3/2005
Horses removed from rental stable,

ANIMAL CONTROL: County officials say the 29 equines are underfed and ill. The owner denies it.
12:20 AM PDT on Friday, June 3, 2005

By SANDRA STOKLEY / The Press-Enterprise
MIRA LOMA - County animal-control officials seized 29 horses from a Mira Loma riding stable Thursday morning after a six-month investigation into allegations that the animals were malnourished and sickly and had inadequate shelter.
Lacie Caron, owner of the Limonite Riding Stables in Mira Loma, watched as 10 Riverside County animal-control officers and several volunteers loaded the horses into trailers and left.
"What they're doing is unnecessary," Caron said. "These people don't know what they are doing. So all I can do is sit here and watch and try to get my horses back."
Robert Miller, director of the Riverside County Department of Animal Services, said officers are preparing an animal-cruelty case against Caron and will submit it to the district attorney's office within 10 days.
Caron insisted that her horses are healthy and well-fed.
"Do you see any starving horses?" she asked.
Department of Animal Services officials said they have received complaints from 16 people this year alone. The complaints allege that the horses had no water, were in poor condition and were plagued with hoof problems.
Spokesman Ralph Rivers said animal-control officers have cited Caron numerous times, trying to bring her into compliance with animal-welfare laws.
"We didn't see any improvement," Rivers said.
The department's hand was forced May 27, when an equine veterinarian called in to examine a horse deemed to be in "grave condition" recommended that the animal be humanely euthanized, Rivers said.
The horse had painful abscesses in both front hoofs, and it was malnourished and in poor condition. According to the veterinarian, other horses on the property had been overworked or had upper respiratory infections or heart failure.
Rivers said a hearing Wednesday determined that there was probable cause to seize the horses, and a judge signed the seizure order.
"With one horse being put down Friday, we didn't want to take a chance with the other horses," Rivers said.
Caron said she has owned Limonite Riding Stables since 1993. The business rents horses for trail riding.
She said she was given less than 24 hours' notice of the pending hearing and was not allowed to see the report prepared by the veterinarian or to summon her own veterinarian for a second opinion.
"I should have the right to a second opinion," she said.
Neighbor Debbie Aberl said she was taken aback when she saw the horses taken away.
"I see her care for those animals," Aberl said. "She feeds them, she cleans the pens."