Summary
In previous years, when SPCA officers would investigate a case that didn't require them to immediately seize a neglected animal, they'd typically educate the owners about equine care and the owner would comply. At follow-up visits, the problem would be fixed. "What they are seeing now to a much greater degree," [Gary Tiscornia] says, "is: I can't afford it. I want you to take my horses.' "
"In the last two years, we have not euthanized a healthy dog or cat at the SPCA," he says, "and we certainly don't want to be euthanizing horses. With dogs and cats, we're having a good deal of luck placing them in homes, and that's not going to happen with horses. That's why we're looking at it as a crisis."See the full content of this document
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Too Many Horses, Not Enough Adopters
"Horses are not 1,000-pound dogs," says Gary Tiscornia, executive director of the SPCA for Monterey County. Apparently this ...
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