Jean is correct, so many states do not have that great of animal welfare regulation. The more people that scream and rant to officials, the better chance something will be done. He should be in jail and sell off his assets to rehab the horses IMHO and NEVER allowed to own a living thing again.
There are breeders like this in other states unfortunately that know how to skate right inside the law to not get caught, while their horses suffer and they take in new people to the breed all the time, with bad or no paperwork and wonky horses.
I wish I could have some pity for him, as he's obviously not all there, but I can't. I've taken in 9 rescues this year in various states of malnourishment and a couple close to a body scale of 1. Some people just don't care or their pride gets in the way instead of asking for help before it becomes critical.
This is another area I wish the registries (both of them) would have a percentage of our registration fees set aside to help rescues with rehabing these horses AND had a way to police breeders better.
So sad and so very frustrating.
