The horses are at an undisclosed location. The SPCA says they seem settled down where they are now, eating and drinking. Officials add there was a fair amount of dehydration, and many of the horses continue to want more water.
"Any time we have to remove animals from a home it is sad. It is not something we want to do. It is something we have to do," said Barbara Carr of the SPCA.
After a complaint, the SPCA went to Beth Hoskins' farm on Emery Road yesterday, and found the 73 horses, along with 53 cats and four dogs. They say the barns had feces on the floors, walls and in the drinking water. It was the biggest removal of horses in more than two decades. The SPCA estimates it will cost about 30 thousand dollars this month to care for them, and says it is up to the courts to decide if Hoskins gets the animals back. Her attorney tells Eyewitness News that Hoskins was going through tough economic times, and that people she knows have stepped up to help her, providing a temporary facility for the horses that she wants back.
"We will have to go to court to allow us to remove them to this temporary facility. That will be a very nice facility, until everyone is satisfied that the owner can have them returned,"said Attorney Barry Covert.
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