When will we stop punishing the animals for human abuse? Recently a dog in Grantsville was put down after biting a child. It was the owners who let him run loose, causing two different bite incidents. I’m having a similar experience with five horses adjacent to my property being starved and neglected. I have spent hundreds to feed these horses because they are starved and sometimes go up to 10 days without food. They advised me to stop feeding the horses so they could take action. My fence has been broken down by these starving horses trying to get something to eat over 15 times, allowing my pets to get out, resulting in one being run over by a car. After mentioning this to a police officer, finally the owner contained him behind barbed wire, which will have serious consequences when he tries to get out for a mare in heat again. After animal control looked at the horses from a distance and stated “they don’t look so bad to me,” a veterinarian who saw these horses wrote a letter to the police department about the horrible condition they were in and believes he could place the horses with people involved in horse rescue. When I called Tooele County Animal Control I was told they would do absolutely nothing so as to “not step on Grantsville’s feet.” What about these abused and neglected horses? What is this law that requires horses go to auction when there are good homes waiting to adopt them?

Linda Osborne

Grantsville