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Shelter caring for 20 horses, other animals

Shelter caring for 20 horses, other animals
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SPRINGVALE, Maine — Twenty horses seized from a farm on Deering Neighborhood Highway are now getting the treatment they need to have, according to the point out.

Some ended up in the vicinity of loss of life, according to the Maine Condition Modern society for the Safety of Animals (MSSPA), the Windham-based nonprofit now caring for the equines.

Most of the horses had lice. One particular of them desired to be hospitalized at the New England Equine Clinical and Surgical Heart in Dover, New Hampshire. All of them experienced lacked the home veterinary focus. No care for their hooves. No vaccines. No dental work.

“The operator failed to fulfill their basic needs,” MSSPA CEO Meris Bickford said Tuesday.

Horses and animals recently seized in Sanford, Maine, were surrendered to the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Animal Welfare Program.

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry seized the horses on July 14 and rescued other animals, as well as birds and lizards.

Eleven chickens. 6 puppies and 6 cats. 3 rats. Pairs of pigs and geckos. Just one bearded dragon. All have been brought to shelters all through the area, which includes the Animal Welfare Society in West Kennebunk.

In a news release, the department’s Animal Welfare Application (AWP) stated the operator experienced acknowledged an incapability to treatment for the animals and been given a life span animal possession ban. The proprietor surrendered the animals but was allowed to maintain two canines and two cats, in accordance to the AWP. In five years, she can question the courtroom process to amend the ban.