Habitat for Horses Overwhelmed by 99 Horses

No that's not a typo. Ninety-nine horses seized from two different farms from two different neglect situations.

Habitat for Horses struggling story

They are under a lot of financial stress while they attempt to care for this many horses. I can imagine. It costs a lot to care for one healthy horse, let alone 99 neglected ones that probably have medical issues in addition to being underweight. If anyone is willing and able to donate money or time, the phone number and website are on the link. I wish I could, but that's like a 24 hour+ drive.

Owner of 76 of the horses walks out of jail on bail

The owner of 76 of the horses, all Arabians, walked out of jail on $10,000 bail. Now my first question is, WHY does he have 76 Arabians? (Article doesn't say) And if he could afford to pay $10,000 for bail, why is it that he couldn't be bothered to feed the horses in his care? The punishment for this crime is up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. For neglecting to take proper care of 76 horses. It says that Humane Society officials estimate that it's going to take six to eight months of feeding before the horses are back to the weight they should be. Who's going to pay for all this? Maybe it should be a year in jail, $4,000 fine, and paying for all vet and feed bills for all 76 horses...

Dead and sick horses found on ranch No pictures (unless you count the one that's on the video screen, but I've seen way worse), but there are if you watch the video.

The remaining 23 horses came from a ranch in Bonham, TX. Three horses were already dead when officials arrived and six more had to be euthanized because of poor health. The owner said they hadn't realized that the horses were in such poor shape.

...Okay, I understand when a full-time job takes up most of your time and attention, but it only takes a few minutes to walk down to the pasture, look at the horses, and know that they're underweight. This sort of thing doesn't happen overnight.

She and her husband had the horses on 117 acres of land and thought that and a 7 acre lake would be enough to sustain the horses. Apparently they didn't realize that horses prefer grass over weeds and the land didn't have enough grass to sustain 35 horses.

But Dotson said she feels bad about the situation, and said she had noticed the horses had a serious hoof disease called Flounders when she visited the ranch last Saturday.

“Terrible… It was bad enough when I came out on Saturday and they had foundered and had to deal with them and then have to deal with it again,” said Dotson.

I think someone got misquoted here. That should be 'founders' not 'flounders.' Unless Flounders is some kind of weird disease that I've never heard of before. What I don't understand about this is why she didn't notice that the horses were far too thin when she "dealt" with the founder. Founder should be dealt with by calling a vet who should have noticed that the horses were too thin. Three of the horses died. There had be some sort of a sign that they were in poor health long before this happened.

She probably loves the horses, she just didn't realize that she wasn't giving them what they needed. This reminds me of the hoarders on Animal Cops that have 50+ cats in their houses, but can't take care of any of them because they just get overwhelmed by the responsibility. Only this is worse because horses are a lot more expensive than cats.