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Cassidy Clark (stressed and worried)
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Date Posted: 20:08:24 04/21/10 Wed
ATTENTION!!! PLEASE HELP THESE HORSES!!!!!!!
hey everyone! i don't know if any one has heard about the 15 mustangs that were dumped in okeechobee. they are all going to be auctioned off tomorrow (April 22) at 2 pm at the okeechobee livestock market. well, only one of them is an actual BLM branded mustang, and the rest were all bred and born in captivity from BLM mustangs. all the mustangs are being taken in by rescues, so they have somewhere to go. now, the auction house was going to give the horses to the rescues for about $10 each, but now the auction is saying that the rescues must bid (against kill buyers!) for them at the auction. i have been talking to one of the rescues that is taking two of the mustangs, and they need a place to hold 8-10 of the mustangs for one or two days while they wait to be transported to the rescues. the auction house won't hold them. if any one down in the okeechobee area can take even just one of them for a day or two while they await to be transported, please please please let me know. (or contact CJ Acres Animal Rescue Farm on their facebook page or their website www.cjacres.org)
or if anyone is willing to donate money to help the rescues save these 15 mustangs from slaughter (as since it is all rescues who are trying to bid against kill buyers to save the mustangs, they can't really "buy the horses" so they need donations to be able to pay the bids), please contact CJ Acres Animal Rescue Farm.
here is the article that has been published on facebook by the Wild Horse Rescue Center:
ACTION ALERT: HELP 15 Mustangs up for public AUCTION
15 Mustangs dumped on a highway in Okeechobee, Fl. are being put up for public auction. The auction will be at the Okeechobee Livestock Market. We are posting information, photos, and contact information. Please help us and SHARE this info, we need to find good homes for these Mustangs to avoid any kill buyers!. Only one of the Mustangs had a BLM freezebrand, appears someone allowed the mustangs to breed indescrimanately, and then dumped them!
Animal Control pulled Coggins on all horses. In accordance with county ordinance, a legal notice has been published that if no one claims the horses in three days they will be put up for public auction.
Currently the horses are being kept in back of the Okeechobee Livestock Market.
DESCRIPTIONS:
1. Bay mustang colt, left hind white fetlock, right front white pastern, approximately 2 years old, 13 hands high (hh);
2. Bay mustang colt, white star, approximately one year old, 134 hh;
3. Bay mustang mare, freeze brand on neck and number 6820 on quarters, approximately 10 years old, 14 hh;
4. Blue roan mustang mare, approximately 8 years old, 14 hh;
5. Dark bay mustang mare, approximately 8 years old, 14 hh;
6. Brown mustang filly, approximately 2 years old, 14.2 hh;
7. Bay mustang filly, left hind white pastern, right white fetlock, white star, approximately 2 years old, 14hh;
8. Bay mustang filly, tiny white star and thin white stripe on nose, approximately 2 years old, 14 hh;
9. Gray mustang colt, left hind white pastern, right hind white fetlock, 14hh;
10. Bay mustang mare, right half white pastern, left hind white pastern, white star, approximately 2 years old, 14 hh.
11. Bay roan mustang mare, white pastern to fetlock, white star, approximately 3 years old, 14 hh;
12. Bay mustang filly, left front club foot, approximately 8 months old, 12 hh;
13. Bay mustang filly, approximately 1 year old; 13 hh;
14. Bay mustang mare, right hind white half pastern, left hind white fetlock, tiny white star, approximately 5 years old, 14 hh;
15. Bay mustang colt, right hind white pastern, approximately 2 years old, 14hh.
PHOTOS:Photos of the horses can be viewed here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/okeechobeenews
CONTACT INFORMATION for the MUSTANGS:
Okeechobee Animal Control
Claire Hudson
1480 NW 25th Drive
Okeechobee, FL 34972
Phone: 863 357-3225
Hours: Mon-Fri only
AUCTION SITE:
Okeechobee Livestock Market
1055 North US Highway 98
Okeechobee, FL 34972-8766
WEB: http://www.floridacattleauction.com
PHONE: (863) 763-3127
FAX: (863) 467-0401
Please help them
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