Thursday, January 12, 2012

Seized, abandoned horses, donkeys are expense for taxpayers

Taxpayers, via the DeSoto sheriff's office, are increasingly paying more money to care for horses and donkeys abandoned or neglected by their owners at greater numbers over the past year. The numbers, which are hard to put a finger on, have grown so much that Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle took the unusual action Tuesday of leasing a 54-acre tract from a DeSoto Parish local landowner where the animals can be placed and fed until their disposition is known. More often, owners are not reclaiming them, leaving the sheriff's office to send them to auction or attempt adoption through a local rescue group...more

Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle says:

"But the problem we're running into is there is no market for the horses and donkeys, and the owners are not feeding them or watering them. They got stuck with them, too. They say they can't find the hay to feed them. We think a lot are letting them loose and not claiming them, so we're having to pick them up."


Thank the do-gooders.  They were told but didn't believe. Finally, Congress has seen the light.

2 comments:

Tick said...

The do-gooders and the congress can kiss my donkey. They don't realize what a problem it has become around here. The rescue folks are over burdened, the sheriff in my county is spending too much time and money on four-legged donkeys when his job is two-legged jackasses.

One official here came up with an idea with pros and cons. He speaks of all the poor farmers in Mexico that could benefit from a donkey.

Good idea. How about rounding up some illegals to round up donkeys to ride south.

Frank DuBois said...

Head'em up and move'em out. I like it.