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Lucylastic -> RE: What is it with the Romneys and animals? (6/23/2012 9:01:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: subrob1967
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
Are you a vegetarian? If not, every animal you eat was killed before you ate it. (Raw oysters are the exception as they're still alive when you down em yummmm)
I don't see this as a cruelty to animals thread so much as a outright fraudulent business dealing thread.
Druggng a dressage horse before you sell it in an attempt to hide injury is fraud, no more no less.
Those who engage in fraud for monetary gain are morally inferior.
I think we should wait for a link to a legit source before we take this seriously... Just sayin'
http://www.ventura.courts.ca.gov/via/CaseInformationSummary.aspx?CaseNo=56-2010-00372707-CU-FR-SIM
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http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20120527_Ann_Romney_has_pricey_passion_for_horseback_riding_.html
SELLING THE HORSE
Though Romney loved the horse, calling him “Soupy,” she decided to sell him in late 2007. Riding him, though meant to soothe her multiple sclerosis, had in fact become painful. “I frequently was getting back spasms when I rode Soupy,” she said.
The eventual buyer was a horsewoman named Catherine Norris, who lived near Seattle at the time. Ebeling, she later said, called Super Hit “the soundest horse in the barn.”
Before writing a check, Norris sought a standard prepurchase exam. The Ebelings recommended a veterinarian they knew, Dr. Doug Herthel, who identified the joint abnormality on an X-ray. He informed Norris of it but assured her it would not bar him from the upper-level show ring.
But Herthel apparently did not mention that a toxicology test reported four tranquilizers in Super Hit’s blood at the time of the exam. His records showed that he injected two of the drugs — to steady Super Hit during X-rays, he testified — but there was no documentation of the other two tranquilizers.
Herthel sent an email to Amy Ebeling asking if the horse had been sedated before the exam; she replied that he had not. How the additional tranquilizers got into the animal was never fully established. A lawyer for Herthel, Steve Schwartz, said the drug laboratory’s tests were not definitive.
But veterinary experts unconnected with the case questioned the circumstances. “The presence of all those medications makes interpretation of the exam null and void,” said Dr. Carolyn Weinberg, a board member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners. She and others said tranquilizers could mask problems.
“They can affect the gait of the horse,” said Dr. Harry Werner, the chairman of animal welfare for the equine association. “They have the potential to obscure a subtle lameness.”
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