Horse neglect on the rise
STEPHANIE RICE
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Cinnamon was loose, somewhere along Northeast 199th Street, when a concerned neighbor called Clark County Animal Control last year.
The malnourished appaloosa was more than 150 pounds underweight; her owner couldn’t afford proper care. Cinnamon went to a foster home.
Cinnamon’s story isn’t unusual in a county that’s home to some 35,000 horses, including ones, officials said, with owners ignorant of the care they need.
But now other factors, including rising hay and grain prices and dwindling opportunities to sell horses, are fueling neglect cases nationwide.
