{"id":38463,"date":"2018-09-11T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=38463"},"modified":"2018-09-11T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:34:32","slug":"horses-for-courses-not-so-at-pendleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/horses-for-courses-not-so-at-pendleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses for courses not so at  Pendleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Larry Brownings Pendleton<br \/>\nCounty Farm we hear<br \/>\nHas lots of neglected horses<br \/>\nAnd it seems very clear<br \/>\nMany still in halters<br \/>\nVery little hay<br \/>\nPools of water everywhere<br \/>\nIts not deemed as okay<\/p>\n<p>He says that he&#8217;s a trader<br \/>\nNow for fifty years<br \/>\nAnd because he has so many<br \/>\nPeople just drop them off and<br \/>\nHis fears<br \/>\nWere he could not keep up with all the<br \/>\nLame horses he got<br \/>\nAnd looking at the video<br \/>\nClearly theres a lot<\/p>\n<p>And most have been neglected<br \/>\nTheir ribs seen sticking out<br \/>\nTo me it shows such unconcern<br \/>\nAnd whats it all about<br \/>\nAll around are carcasses<br \/>\nOf dead horses poor things<br \/>\nAnd 49 just lying  there<br \/>\nImagine how that brings<\/p>\n<p>Fear and consternation<br \/>\nTo surviving horses who<br \/>\nMust be feeling terrible<br \/>\nNot knowing what to do<br \/>\nKentucky State Police<br \/>\nHave charged him<br \/>\nFor all the horses dead<br \/>\nUnnotified just lying there<br \/>\nReally all is said<br \/>\nAnd done<br \/>\nso many looking grim<br \/>\nEmaciated and clearly on their last legs<br \/>\nAnd all this down to him<\/p>\n<p>His reply was be was trading<br \/>\nSelling to privateers<br \/>\nOr if not selling to slaughterhouses<br \/>\nIn Canada it appears<br \/>\nAmerica has no slaughterhouses for horses<br \/>\nAs we know<br \/>\nSo Browning ships them<br \/>\nOf to Canada live exports<br \/>\nA body blow<\/p>\n<p>Cruelty is everywhere<br \/>\nHe is cited so<br \/>\nWith 15 counts of cruelty<br \/>\nAnd more to come we know<br \/>\nThere clearly is no love lost<br \/>\nFor these individual souls<br \/>\nWho clearly are now suffering<br \/>\nWithout any controls<\/p>\n<p>Heartlessness apparently<br \/>\nUnfeeling and dry-eyed<br \/>\nJust look into these horses eyes<br \/>\nThey would have relied<br \/>\nOn him he is the owner<br \/>\nAnd neglect is what we see<br \/>\nAnd the end result the slaughterhouse<br \/>\nWhich is never the place to be<\/p>\n<p>And in that poor state<br \/>\nSickly weak shipped off far away<br \/>\nTo probably die on the journey<br \/>\nCompassion not today<br \/>\nThank goodness at least the Authorities<br \/>\nHave deemed to take control<br \/>\nAs  for the RSPCA<br \/>\nThey  have dug a deeper hole<\/p>\n<p>For themselves and the poor horses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Larry Brownings Pendleton County Farm we hear Has lots of neglected horses And it seems very clear Many still in halters Very little hay Pools of water everywhere Its not deemed as okay He says that he&#8217;s a trader &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/horses-for-courses-not-so-at-pendleton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38469,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions\/38469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}