{"id":226700,"date":"2012-11-28T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=226700"},"modified":"2012-11-29T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:31:34","slug":"judge-awards-starving-horses-to-safe-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=226700","title":{"rendered":"Judge Awards Starving Horses to Safe Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=226701\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty\" width=\"109\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-226701\" \/><\/a>HENDERSON \u2014 Emaciated horses seized from a Rusk County pasture last week have been awarded to Safe Haven Equine Rescue and Retirement Home on Tuesday. Rusk County Justice of the Peace Pct. 5 Joe Sorrells presided over the seizure hearing, which resulted in the three horses and three dogs being taken from the owners. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the animals were found on the pasture on County Road 4223 in south Rusk County.<\/p>\n<p>The horses were seized November 21 by Rusk County sheriff\u2019s deputies because they were extremely malnourished and \u201chad taken a turn for the worse,\u201d said Safe Haven Executive Director Richard Fincher. The seized horses \u2014 a gelding and two mares \u2014 were taken to Safe Haven in Upshur County, where after thorough examination they were found to have a body condition score between one and two on a one to nine scale, with one being starving and nine being obese, Fincher said. Fincher said the Rusk County sheriff\u2019s department had been monitoring the condition of the animals and a Nov. 20 check in prompted the animals\u2019 seizure. <\/p>\n<p>Viki Penny, spokesman for the Rusk County sheriff\u2019s office, said it was unknown at this time if the animals\u2019 owners would face criminal charges in connection with the animals\u2019 conditions. The land where the starving animals were found had no house or barn on it, Penny said. The dogs were given to Henderson Animal Shelter, Sorrells said. Sorrells added that the woman who represented the animals\u2019 owner was Carolina Lowe; however, Lowe was not available for contact late Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON \u2014 Emaciated horses seized from a Rusk County pasture last week have been awarded to Safe Haven Equine Rescue and Retirement Home on Tuesday. Rusk County Justice of the Peace Pct. 5 Joe Sorrells presided over the seizure hearing, which resulted in the three horses and three dogs being taken from the owners. KETK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=226700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Awards Starving Horses to Safe Haven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 11:09:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226700"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226931,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226700\/revisions\/226931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}