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Nearly two months ago, a woman spotted several malnourished horses in a field near her home in Orangeburg County, S.C. After witnessing the poor condition of the animals on more than one occasion, she went to the people responsible for handling these sorts of things and provided them with the…

Nearly two months ago, a woman spotted several malnourished horses in a field near her home in Orangeburg County, S.C. After witnessing the poor condition of the animals on more than one occasion, she went to the people responsible for handling these sorts of things and provided them with the information.

“I reported several weeks ago to the (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and to the Orangeburg Sheriff about several neglected horses in a small field near my home,” she told FITS.

Nothing was done, and as a result the condition of the animals continued to deteriorated. In fact one of the horses saw its condition worsened considerably over the last few weeks.

“Last week one of the horses was laying down and wouldn’t get up, but it was still alive,” the woman told us.

Does this story have a happy ending?

Of course not. The woman drove by the property – located at 470 Rivers Turn Road – earlier this week and discovered that the horse had died.

“It had turkey vultures all around it,” she said. “It must have laid there dying for several days without any medical attention or care.”

Wow … that’s almost as disturbing as the last South Carolina horse abuse story we covered. And making matters worse the field contains several other horses – including mares with foals.

Now, more than 72 hours after the horse’s demise, its dead body is still serving as vulture food – even after an Orangeburg County deputy paid a visit to the property owner.

“There is still a dead horse in the field, visible from the road, with turkey vultures everywhere,” the woman reported back to us late Wednesday. “That horse did not have to die like that. If someone had done something sooner, it might have lived; or if it was sick it might have at least been humanely euthanized, not (turned into) vulture food.”

We agree …

Humans have been given dominion over animals, but how we treat them is a commentary on how we deserve to be treated. And clearly this poor horse was treated as poorly as can be imagined.

Its owner also broke the law …

“Whoever knowingly or intentionally overloads, overdrives, overworks, ill- treats any animal, deprives any animal of necessary sustenance or shelter, inflicts unnecessary pain or suffering upon any animal, or by omission or commission knowingly or intentionally causes these things to be done, for every offense is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,” S.C. code section 47-1-40 notes.

The owner of this animal has some explaining to do. And so do the SPCA and the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s office …

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73 comments

2big2fall May 9, 2013 at 12:06 pm

Disgraceful. Hopefully your timely article will put some pressure on some very lazy and incompetent “public servants.”

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2big2fall May 9, 2013 at 12:06 pm

Disgraceful. Hopefully your timely article will put some pressure on some very lazy and incompetent “public servants.”

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GrandTango May 9, 2013 at 12:52 pm

FITS has given more keystrokes to dumb animals not being fed than he Did to the Mutilation of Born Babies by an Obama-like Murderous ABORTIONIST.

FITS has opined more about mal-nourished horses than he has on the FOUR DEAD AMERICANS Obama and Hillary criminally failed in Benghazi, then LIED about it.

When a so-called News outlet is so Incompetent and incurious about the life of Innocent Babies or our countrymen hung out to dry by arrogant, Elitist, Government check-gobblers…it is sad and disgusting,,,,

FITS: I say this w/ all Sincerity. You are as low as the Filth that perpetuates some of this Evil and Crime. You have a forum, yet you are as Intellectually Dishonest, and negligent as some people on trial. You should be ashamed of yourself, in addition to embarrassed for your lack of effort.

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Georgia Bulldozer May 9, 2013 at 1:34 pm

BigT says “When a so-called News outlet is so Incompetent….”

I say that if there is anyone of us that knows incompetence, it is BigT..

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A Friend May 9, 2013 at 3:56 pm

Ain’t that the truth. Been reading this site for a while and just started commenting. BigT, GrandTango, whatever the fuck his name is has to be the biggest moron I’ve seen online – ever. Wish FITS would block his crazy ass, but then he’d be jumping up and down about free speech for the mentally challenged.

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 1:52 pm

BigT… shut your cunt.

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GrandTango May 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Cannot blame you for being angry. I rubbed your face in your hatred of human life to promote your immoral politcs…

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 8:40 pm

I said shut your gaping head hole.

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jimlewisowb May 9, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Let me see if I can put this in a polite way

Ma’am you are to be commended for your concerns and efforts regarding the misfortunes of animals who often have no advocate

However this event has transpired in Orangeburg County, the Mecca of all Shitholes in the State of South Carolina with the exception of Turdsville, USA(aka Myrtle Beach, SC)

Unless your concerns involve drugs, stealing someone else’s money and whores there ain’t no one in Mecca who gives a rat’s ass

Oh, a word of caution. If you see another one of these horses in the throes of death, please do not take it upon yourself to put it out of its misery. If you do, the goddamn mother fucking sons of bitches cockroachs will tie a well horse to each of your extremities, slit you gut open and turn your mortal remains into damn dog food

Ma’am, you have a nice day now

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Smirks May 9, 2013 at 1:26 pm

I wanted to laugh, I really did, but it’s too sad of a truth.

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jimlewisowb May 9, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Let me see if I can put this in a polite way

Ma’am you are to be commended for your concerns and efforts regarding the misfortunes of animals who often have no advocate

However this event has transpired in Orangeburg County, the Mecca of all Shitholes in the State of South Carolina with the exception of Turdsville, USA(aka Myrtle Beach, SC)

Unless your concerns involve drugs, stealing someone else’s money and whores there ain’t no one in Mecca who gives a rat’s ass

Oh, a word of caution. If you see another one of these horses in the throes of death, please do not take it upon yourself to put it out of its misery. If you do, the goddamn mother fucking sons of bitches cockroachs will tie a well horse to each of your extremities, slit you gut open and turn your mortal remains into damn dog food

Ma’am, you have a nice day now

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Smirks May 9, 2013 at 1:26 pm

I wanted to laugh, I really did, but it’s too sad of a truth.

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Smirks May 9, 2013 at 1:22 pm

It takes a world-class asshole to let an animal suffer and die like that. Man, that pisses me off.

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Smirks May 9, 2013 at 1:22 pm

It takes a world-class asshole to let an animal suffer and die like that. Man, that pisses me off.

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mph May 9, 2013 at 1:44 pm

Ask your buddy T-Rav and his family about all those malnourished and dead horses I saw on Rushland Island. I’ve never seen anything so sad.

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mph May 9, 2013 at 1:44 pm

Ask your buddy T-Rav and his family about all those malnourished and dead horses I saw on Rushland Island. I’ve never seen anything so sad.

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 1:51 pm

One of the reasons South Carolina will continue to be a shithole is because legislators are too chickenshit to pass laws against animal cruelty. I’m not talking about PETA bullshit, I’m talking about outright neglect and abuse. Penalties that result in little more than a finger or dick slap don’t mean anything to those who are guilty of abuse and neglect. Start making instances a felony with manditory jail time and people in this podunk shithole of a state might wake up.

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 1:51 pm

One of the reasons South Carolina will continue to be a shithole is because legislators are too chickenshit to pass laws against animal cruelty. I’m not talking about PETA bullshit, I’m talking about outright neglect and abuse. Penalties that result in little more than a finger or dick slap don’t mean anything to those who are guilty of abuse and neglect. Start making instances a felony with manditory jail time and people in this podunk shithole of a state might wake up.

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Robert May 9, 2013 at 1:56 pm

I don’t see a single turkey vulture in that pic….just saying.

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Someone who cares May 10, 2013 at 8:48 am

There are turkey vultures standing on and all around the horse’s body.

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Soft Sigh from Hell May 10, 2013 at 2:32 pm

Perhaps they are of some different species of vulture or buzzard.
You know how fussy taxonomic specialists can be.

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Robert May 9, 2013 at 1:56 pm

I don’t see a single turkey vulture in that pic….just saying.

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Someone who cares May 10, 2013 at 8:48 am

There are turkey vultures standing on and all around the horse’s body.

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Soft Sigh from Hell May 10, 2013 at 2:32 pm

Perhaps they are of some different species of vulture or buzzard.
You know how fussy taxonomic specialists can be.

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Sarge May 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm

What ya bet the animal owners are friends with somebody in the
O’burg Sheriff’s Department

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A Friend May 9, 2013 at 3:53 pm

I’d bet a lot.

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Sarge May 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm

What ya bet the animal owners are friends with somebody in the
O’burg Sheriff’s Department

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A Friend May 9, 2013 at 3:53 pm

I’d bet a lot.

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GrandTango May 9, 2013 at 2:55 pm

Throughout history, the most Souless and Immoral of people have valued the lives of Animals more than the lives of children…

There is nothing new under the sun…

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Sick of Idiots May 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Lazy whore should have thrown it a bale of hay and then called the local TV station. They jump right on that stuff. She basically chronicled the death of a helpless animal. Who does she think she is Jack Hannah?

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Torch May 9, 2013 at 4:03 pm

There’s a TV station in O’bug???

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gg May 9, 2013 at 4:55 pm

Yes, WNIG

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Torch May 9, 2013 at 5:36 pm

You’re one racist sob.

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 8:39 pm

Yeah that’s what you do to starving horses, throw them a bale of hay. Better stick to the goldfish there Skippy.

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someone who cares May 10, 2013 at 8:53 am

It had old, nasty cow hay. The man that owns the property does not allow anyone on his land, so going in and feeding them was not an option. Attempting to use legal channels, SPCA and sheriff, is supposed to be the right thing to do. Both agencies were called months before the horse died and did NOTHING about it.

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Sick of Idiots May 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Lazy whore should have thrown it a bale of hay and then called the local TV station. They jump right on that stuff. She basically chronicled the death of a helpless animal. Who does she think she is Jack Hannah?

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Torch May 9, 2013 at 4:03 pm

There’s a TV station in O’bug???

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gg May 9, 2013 at 4:55 pm

Yes, WNIG

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Torch May 9, 2013 at 5:36 pm

You’re one racist sob. This is a good site to discuss right wing, left wing and centrist politics but not be a racist. We have right wing AA’s, left wing AA’s and centrist AA’s. I’m coming from the position of an OWB.

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Squishy123 May 9, 2013 at 8:39 pm

Yeah that’s what you do to starving horses, throw them a bale of hay. Better stick to the goldfish there Skippy.

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someone who cares May 10, 2013 at 8:53 am

It had old, nasty cow hay. The man that owns the property does not allow anyone on his land, so going in and feeding them was not an option. Attempting to use legal channels, SPCA and sheriff, is supposed to be the right thing to do. Both agencies were called months before the horse died and did NOTHING about it.

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lowcorider May 9, 2013 at 5:39 pm

You’re beating a dead horse.

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? May 9, 2013 at 6:05 pm

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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lowcorider May 9, 2013 at 10:17 pm

Why the long face?

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? May 10, 2013 at 7:28 am

Stop horsing around

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Lowcorider May 9, 2013 at 5:39 pm

You’re beating a dead horse.

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? May 9, 2013 at 6:05 pm

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Lowcorider May 9, 2013 at 10:17 pm

Why the long face?

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? May 10, 2013 at 7:28 am

Stop horsing around

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Soft Sigh from Hell May 9, 2013 at 6:59 pm

I once saw the dried-skin-over-skeleton remains of a full-sized cow not 75 yards from the front door of a house on clearly the same property. In total view from the house and the highway, not a tree in between. Can you imagine the smell? A big gaping hole in the stomach area presumably showed where the vultures and other scavengers went in and out. It sat like that for at least several years afterwards.

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GrandTango May 9, 2013 at 8:37 pm

You seem to feel so much pain for those horses. Such Real Compassion…

Yet, you were SILENT as your Liberal, Liberal-Tarian, Planned-Parenthood-Associated Abortionist, Brutally Killed Babies….

Perhaps we’ll hear the ‘soft sighs from Hell’ from all of the ones who stand by, quietly, but march in streets to Champion Baby Killing abortionists, like your Dr. Gosnell.

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Soft Sigh from Hell May 10, 2013 at 2:30 pm

LastTangoInSodom, I wouldn’t let your type within 15 feet of a baby, even at protective gunpoint. There are still the vile germs–and of God knows what–spread in the sprayed spittle from the ceaseless spouting.

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GrandTango May 10, 2013 at 3:33 pm

Now I know why so many of you hardly ever attempt to comment, with anything more than insults.
When you do offer something: You immediately reveal how F#**in Vapid you are…
You’re better off w/ the cheap insults…at least we still have some question as to whether you’re ignorant or not…now our instincts have been confirmed.

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Soft Sigh from Hell May 10, 2013 at 4:06 pm

Did anyone else hear a plaintive faint squeaking?

(Squeaking from yon dusty corner? Perhaps a glue-trap has scored its prey.)

Soft Sigh from Hell May 9, 2013 at 6:59 pm

I once saw the dried-skin-over-skeleton remains of a full-sized cow not 75 yards from the front door of a house on clearly the same property. In total view from the house and the highway, not a tree in between. Can you imagine the smell? A big gaping hole in the stomach area presumably showed where the vultures and other scavengers went in and out. It sat like that for at least several years afterwards.

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EZLN May 9, 2013 at 10:28 pm

Welcome to Ayn Rand’s dream world, the State of South Carolina.

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EZLN May 9, 2013 at 10:28 pm

Welcome to Ayn Rand’s dream world, the State of South Carolina.

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9" May 9, 2013 at 11:57 pm

But denying HUMANS healthcare is alright/’socialism’,what the fuck…

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? May 10, 2013 at 7:52 am

If there’s one thing we agree on, it’s that there’s a lot of people out there that value animals more than people sadly.

Not withstanding whether money should be taken from one set of people to pay for healthcare of others, which is a different question/thought.

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9" May 10, 2013 at 7:12 pm

they buy pets’ clothes and gourmet food,etc.i eat dead animals!

especially like a blood-dripping rare rib-eye…

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9" May 9, 2013 at 11:57 pm

But denying HUMANS healthcare is alright/’socialism’,what the fuck…

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? May 10, 2013 at 7:52 am

If there’s one thing we agree on, it’s that there’s a lot of people out there that value animals more than people sadly.

Not withstanding whether money should be taken from one set of people to pay for healthcare of others, which is a different question/thought.

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9" May 10, 2013 at 7:12 pm

they buy pets’ clothes and gourmet food,etc.i eat dead animals!

especially like a blood-dripping rare rib-eye…

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Kelly Blevins May 18, 2013 at 4:07 pm

The fact is internal investigations needs to be presented with this case along with the Attorney Generals office. Demand answers these sorry lowlife law officers take an oath to uphold the law and this is clearly a violation on their part,, The national news media needs to run this story as well, I am so sick of the Authorities skirting around doing their jobs. Do not accept it and blatantly tell them you will go to the media and You will file an internal investigations report. Stand up to them, Remember You pay their salary. They work for you and let them know it.

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Kelly Blevins May 18, 2013 at 4:07 pm

The fact is internal investigations needs to be presented with this case along with the Attorney Generals office. Demand answers these sorry lowlife law officers take an oath to uphold the law and this is clearly a violation on their part,, The national news media needs to run this story as well, I am so sick of the Authorities skirting around doing their jobs. Do not accept it and blatantly tell them you will go to the media and You will file an internal investigations report. Stand up to them, Remember You pay their salary. They work for you and let them know it.

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Debbie Catalina May 19, 2013 at 12:04 am

It is so common….law enforcement is lazy and does not do its job.

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Debbie Catalina May 19, 2013 at 12:04 am

It is so common….law enforcement is lazy and does not do its job.

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