Cruelty charges- and what becomes of the animals?

[HGFarm]

I see that the farm name was again changed.... does anyone know what will become of the horses confiscated? There was really some well bred horses there.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/viewart/20121009/UPDATE/121009028/Miniature-horse-owner-faces-animal-neglect-charges?odyssey=nav%7Chead

 

[Jean_B]

Chances are the animals will be re-homed, first with fosters, and eventually permanently once the courts get done fiddling around. There is little likelihood that any of the animals will have papers at that point.

A number of years ago there was a well-known breeder in Wisconsin that had all animals confiscated. All were eventually placed in new permanent homes. All had been registered but the previous owner refused to give the new owners any papers and the court did not order her to do so. None had been previously DNA'd so there was no way to prove that those animals were in fact the one on the papers. The AMHA horses had pictures (this was before AMHR started doing pictures) but that was not enough evidence...and AMHA would not get involved in trying to get papers on these horses. There were some NICE mares in the herd, though most were in their middle to upper teens. A couple of the younger ones went to homes where they were hardshipped into AMHA .... again....but most ended up as pets.

 

[Marty]

It depends a lot on who took possession of the horses. All counties have different ways of handling these things. If it was a Sheriff Dept or an Animal Control, their county will most likely make them sell at public auction to re-coup monies for the county that was spent on them.

There was a large seizure in Texas where the public descended like vultures to buy as many as they could for super cheap without papers. The supposedly "humane type organization" that had them in custody were in way over their heads, not prepared and were dolling them to anyone without the slightest check on where'd they go without even gelding the first stallion.

In some cases the horses are lucky to be place in foster care where they actually get to spend time and get a good going over and restoration to health before being put up for adoption. Unfortunately this doesn't happen a lot. Like I said, it varies from county to county and who actually took possession.