Abandoned horses becoming big concern in Rogers County

One Oklahoma Rancher fed up after more and more abandoned horses keep appearing in her front yard. Dara Steele has seen 11 abandoned horses in her area over the last two years including one Wednesday night. Steele and her mother, Debra Hill, live just outside of the city limits of Chelsea, Oklahoma. Steele says they are used to seeing abandoned dogs and cats but now they’re seeing more horses. Hill has lived at the ranch for 16 years. She says ever since the some of the slaughter homes across the area closed the number of abandoned horses has risen. Hill says it's only become a bigger problem in the last two years, when she had five horses dropped off in her yard. "It makes you angry,” said Hill. It’s also affected her sense of security. “Some people might think we're going to get robbed, it's the middle of the night and there's a truck stopped outside my house. With us we wake up in the middle of the night and think oh no more animals," said Hill...more