Target: Travis Ahner, County Attorney for Flathead County, MT
Goal: Prosecute woman accused of nearly starving 17 horses to death to the fullest extent.
A horse owner is due in court on several charges of aggravated animal cruelty. Authorities discovered 17 reportedly starving horses at pastures around a Montana county. All of the horses apparently belonged to the same woman.
Wardens on the scene reported that the horses were “in very poor condition” and “in various stages of starvation.” At least one horse may have passed away. The horses are now under the care of rescuers and are regaining their strength. Their previous caretaker, whose name was not disclosed, was charged with several counts of aggravated animal cruelty.
Sign the petition below to help ensure this woman faces maximum punishment if she is found guilty.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Ahner,
If an animal caretaker fails to provide “food and water of sufficient quantity and quality to sustain the animal’s normal health” or “in cases of immediate, obvious, serious illness or injury, licensed veterinary or other appropriate medical care,” then that person is guilty of animal cruelty under Montana state law. A horse owner in Flathead County allegedly committed these very offenses no less than 17 times. Authorities recently discovered several pastures populated by this woman’s horses.
According to warden reports, these horses were “in various stages of starvation” and “in very poor condition.” The woman’s apparent admission that she lacked money to feed the horses seemingly indicates her guilt. If she is indeed found guilty, please do not let punishment end with a mere fine.
Living beings suffered. They deserve justice, and their accused abuser deserves the maximum allowable jail sentence.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Rodolfo Quiros
Thank you for the rescue of these innocent horses. Please make her pay for these 17 crimes a year for each horse . I think 17 years is-a good amount of time. Never allowed any ANIMAL contact again. Not much of a HUMAN just a SCUMBAG HUMAN ANIMAL..
Another tragic case. They just keep coming!!
These horses deserve justice. The owner should get jail time to the maximum. …and starved to death.
Travis Ahner, County Attorney for Flathead County, MT
please take action so these tragedies don’t keep happening.
Please get these horses to a safe place where they will be properly taken care of.
Yes, this is 100% UNACCEPTABLE!! SHE MUST PAY FOR THIS HEINOUS CRIME!!! WHILE SHE shoved food into that mouth of hers, her horses lay starving and dying!!
Damn her!!
OWNER MUST BE CHARGED WITH TORTURE AND NEGLECT. THEY MUST ALSO PAY RESTITUTION TO GET THESE INNOCENT STARVED HORSES BACK TO HEALTH. THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED FOR HELP BEFORE THESE HORSES STARVED. THIS TOOK MONTHS!!! MONTHS TO HAPPEN. IT DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. THIS OWNER WATCHED AS THESE HORSES STARVED AND DID NOTHING. THERE MUST BE PUNISHMENT.
Death to her!! She is a murderer!!
Cold and heinous!!
I am enraged!!
I don’t see any way this woman can NOT be found guilty. But yet I know how that goes. Sure hope the courts come through and punish her for what she has done to these horses. She also need not be allowed to own another animal of any kind.
THIS IS INEXCUSABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE. THE OWNER/CARETAKER OF THESE HORSES NEEDS TO BE CHARGED WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AND TRAUMA AND NEGLECT.
These cases just keep on coming. When are judges going to start and make people pay for what they do to the innocents among us. It will never stop until people become afraid of what will happen when they are in court.
They don’t even care about homeless people. Fat chance any animal gets a good forever home
We need HARSH LAWS!!! No end to this Cruelty unless these Monsters get Harsh Punishment, the Laws are too lenient!!!!!! Praying the Owner of these HORSES GET Punished to the Fullest Extent.. !!
I AGREE WITH “Renee Risser
OWNER MUST BE CHARGED WITH TORTURE AND NEGLECT. THEY MUST ALSO PAY RESTITUTION TO GET THESE INNOCENT STARVED HORSES BACK TO HEALTH. THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED FOR HELP BEFORE THESE HORSES STARVED. THIS TOOK MONTHS!!! MONTHS TO HAPPEN. IT DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. THIS OWNER WATCHED AS THESE HORSES STARVED AND DID NOTHING. THERE MUST BE PUNISHMENT.”
SEVERE PUNISHMENT MUST BE THE TREATMENT “EVIL BEING” DESERVES,,,,NO TRIAL THAT WOULD BE A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY !!!!
Why was the owner’s name not disclosed? Name, mugshot and address. Then confiscate her property to pay for the veterinary care and cost of rehoming her 17 victims. Nothing less than that amounts to “justice.” Prison is too good for her.
Most times names of scumbags are on here. Easy to find out if not published.
Agree 100% with you.
If people keep pets and dont give them proper care, they need to be punished! Put this lazy scumbag behind bars NOW!
If you own animals you have a moral and ethical obligation to properly care for them. If you’re unwilling or unable to do so, you have a moral and ethical obligation to surrender them to an organization or an individual that can. Prosecute this negligent woman to the fullest extent of the law for egregious animal cruelty!
Man on a whole does not deserve the beauty around them. Too many humans are a disease to this planet and all its species.
This owner needs strict prosecution. Only a monster could do such heartlessness😡
This cruel woman’s punishment should be put out in a pasture without any food and water access for the rest of her miserable life!!!! Put a sign up that reads Do NOT GIVE ANY FOOD AND/OR WATER to her and add her real name to sign!! Say if found trying give her any food and water you will be PROSECUTED to aid and abetting.
Make this evil bitch pay with her blood.
Animals shall not be VICTIMS of human sadistic psychopaths!
Animal abuse shall be treated as any human abuse, and these horses deserve justice – just like YOU and ME!
MAX JAIL or DEATH PENALTY for this human monster.
She must also be FORBIDDEN FROM EVER COMING NEAR ANIMALS AGAIN!
kill this bastard
Stop this insane way of treating animal abuse, it is a serious CRIME done by humans who are a danger to all, most are phyopaths and they will never be safe to walk the streets. Punish them stop letting these moronic sub humans get away with murdering animals. Hurting ant living species for any reason is unacceptable stop sitting on your butts and do something real.
I would sure like to know the story behind all these innocent horses but I have a feeling they were victims of the Bureau of Land Management’s never ending helicopter roundups. They are removed to keep ranchers happy so all the grazing land and water goes to their livestock. Then they’re victimized again by people like this low life POS. If she couldn’t afford to feed them she should have contacted a rescue organization but she chose to let them starve. She deserves the same mercy she showed to all 17 horses, which is nothing!