Take a Peek into the Hectic Day to Day of one of South CA's Most Prolific Horse Rescues
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This way all our efforts and stories are archived. Please be sure to check it out! Our mission; To Broadcast the Many Horses that Pass Through the California Auctions so that Some May Be Saved and the Rest Not Forgotten.
Every week we attend auctions all over California. Where possible we take photo's of the horses live from the auction site, and post them on our Facebook page. We do this with the aim of networking them to safety -- be it to rescue and rehabilitate them ourselves, connect them back to old owners and connections, or find them new, safe homes. Please start following us on Facebook as this is where the updates happen daily. We post horses that need rescuing and updates on previously rescued animals and those who have been rehabbed and up for adoption. |
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Megan Gaynes runs a rescue group called Auction Horses Rescue, and bought him for $280.The group said race horses, especially injured ones, are not safe at auctions. “Most people they want quarter horses, they want paints, they want cute ponies. Typically thoroughbreds don’t sell well so typically the kill buyer will buy them,” Gaynes said. “Kill buyers” are horse traders that truck the horses to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. Sending horses to slaughter is illegal in California, but our investigation found no one is enforcing the law. In an email to KPIX 5, the California Department of Food and Agriculture admitted, “When the practice of slaughtering horses was discontinued, so were the funds for inspection.” That means no one is checking who is bringing horses to auction, or who is buying them. “It’s kind of like the wild west,” said Gaynes. |
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