In The News:
Equine Outreach was featured in a Bend Bulletin article entitled "Stable, sweet stable" on 6/20/08. Click here for the web version or here for a copy of the scanned article.
Equine Outreach was featured on KTVZ Channel 21's evening newscast on 8/24/2007. Click here for the video (requires Windows Media Player 7 or later)
Deputies seize nine severely neglected horses in Oregon
By The Associated Press
PRINEVILLE, Ore. — Deputies from the Crook County sheriff's office have seized nine severely neglected horses from a Prineville woman.
Authorities had received a report of horses being neglected and got a warrant for the seizure of the horses.
Deputy Travis Jurgens says nine horses varying in size, age and breed were seized. All the horses have varying medical issues.
The 43-year-old owner, Jennifer Debban, was cited on nine counts of animal neglect.
The Equine Outreach Horse Rescue, a nonprofit organization, assisted in the placement and care of the seized horses.
High hay costs push up cases of animal abandonment
in Ore.
By The Associated Press
BEND, Ore.
- High prices and scarce supply for hay this season are leading
to abandoned horses, according to animal-welfare groups.
"This is the first year where people are
literally just opening the gate and kicking them (the horses)
out," said Chuck Fisher, ranch manager at Equine Outreach
in Bend, which rescues and rehabilitates horses and puts them
up for adoption.
Just last week, he said, he'd gotten a call about
taking in three tame horses found starving in Ochoco National
Forest. ...Read
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