[Ruth0552]

http://www.lonestaronline.com/listin...1053194517#TOP

Gah. This just popped up on my FB newsfeed from someone with relatives in Texas. I'd like to know the details behind this- hopefully it was an abandoned horse that they recently acquired.

[cloudyandcallie]

OMG. I'm in if anyone will take him. PM me if someone takes him and wants a little help with money.

[Finzean]

Bumping this...wish I were closer.

[Liberty]

There's a paint horse in similar shape also up for bids:
http://www.lonestaronline.com/listin...1053194516#TOP

[Texarkana]

That is really, really sad. I wish I was in a position to take both.

[js]

I cant' believe they would put them in auction in that condition. How tragic for the horses. If they were seized why aren't they with the local ASPCA getting rehabbed before going to auction or offered for adoption?

[cloudyandcallie]

Feed them or put them down. The government has the responsibility to do this. But of course, by selling them for a pittance, then let them go over the mexican border to slaughter.

Anyone want them? I'll help if you PM me. I board, and I'm too far away to do physical help, but I have paypal.

[danceronice]

"Thin but has put on weight since impounded." Clearly they're feeding it (better than whoever they seized it from was, anyway.) What are they supposed to do, stuff it full of grain and sell a foundered horse, or spend a fortune holding it forever to get it into "suitable" condition? They have a legal responsibility to do what the law requires, which apparently means selling at public auction after a certain point. (That implies it wasn't a private humane society kind of seizure but a criminal case of some kind.)