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The Sad Eyed Arab that nobody took home.... We have had many inquiries over the years about the Sad Eyed Arab. This is him in the drop off pens at the New Holland Sales Stables. He was shipped to slaughter and the person(s) responsible for starving him, transporting him to the sale, and offering him for sale in this condition, all violations of the PA Crimes Code, were never prosecuted or held accountable for their actions. Instead they were rewarded for their cruel treatment of this horse with money.
The Equine Protection Network, EPN has documented the conditions of horses sold at PA horse auctions since 1995. The EPN pressed for the enforcement of the law prohibiting the sale of a disabled horse to no avail until the Pennsylvania State Police, PSP, responded to our complaints in 1998. Since that first successful prosecution by the PSP at the New Holland Sales Stables, enforcement has spread to other horse auctions across PA. In 2002 the PA Department of Agriculture published the Fit For Sale brochure. PA Crimes Code, Title 18, 5511(d)Selling or using disabled horse.--A person commits a summary offense if he offers for sale or sells any horse, which by reason of debility, disease or lameness, or for other cause, could not be worked or used without violating the laws against cruelty to animals, or leads, rides, drives or transports any such horse for any purpose, except that of conveying the horse to the nearest available appropriate facility for its humane keeping or destruction or for medical or surgical treatment. |
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Many states have laws against starving animals, including horses. In PA the law is Title 18, 5511(c) of the PA Crimes Code. (c) Cruelty to animals.--A person commits a summary offense if he wantonly or cruelly illtreats, overloads, beats, otherwise abuses any animal, or neglects any animal as to which he has a duty of care, whether belonging to himself or otherwise, or abandons any animal, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, drink, shelter or veterinary care,or access to clean and sanitary shelter which will protect the animal against inclement weather and preserve the animal's body heat and keep it dry. This subsection shall not apply to activity undertaken in normal agricultural operation.
Everybody has an excuse as to why they were unable to properly care for the horse(s). From divorces to deaths, to this person was supposed to be feeding them, to health reasons, to being too busy, or it was a "hard winter" or "I was thinking I should call the vet, but I just haven't gotten around to it" |
 The pictures on these pages span several years. It appears that the option of slaughter has not prevented the owners of these horses from failing to provide them with necessary food. None of the owners of these horses were punished for their bad behavior. Instead they were rewarded for their misdeed with money.
Slaughter did not prevent them from slowly starving to death. These horses did not become this thin because one day the owner decided not to feed and water them. If that were the case, the horses would have died from dehydration in less than a week. More likely the owners failed to properly feed them for months and quite possibly years. Many owners of neglected horses never sell them, instead they let them die where they are, and then they purchase more horses so they can repeat the process. Just ask law enforcement officers who have investigated numerous cases of starvation, not a pro slaughter individual who has never investigated a case of cruelty, and is just repeating what the pro slaughter organizations are stating with no research or scientific evidence to back up their claim. |
Pro slaughter individuals and organizations make the claim that slaughter prevents starvation Yet there is no scientific substantiation to this claim.
Purchasing a neglected horse in PA is not illegal, but offering it for sale is a crime in PA. Many individuals believe that by purchasing the horse they are rescuing the horse from a bad situation, which is true. But the purchaser is also rewarding the owner for the owners bad behavior-neglecting the horse. Unless owners are held accountable for their irresponsibility, there is nothing to prevent them from doing this again.
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