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Dr. Teresa Miller is a veterinarian. She's walking a horse named Jasper. When she first saw him Tuesday, she thought he was on his last legs.
Dr. Miller says, ?He's one of the worst ones we've seized lately. He's a body scale of one, and which means he has most of his skeletal structure where you can see without the fat on it. And he wasn't long for this world if we hadn't rescued him.?
Dr. Miller says Jasper was tied to a post when she went to remove him. His ribs are showing, his hips protrude and patches of hair are missing all over him.
?The owner didn't see it as a problem and that confuses us. She said 'I don't understand why you think there's a problem with my horse,' so it was rather appalling,? says Miller.
But Jasper wasn't alone in his suffering. The Pulaski County Humane Society also seized an American mustang and her foal.
Kay Jordan runs the Humane Society and she's had her hands full with a black German shepherd.
Jordan says, ?This dog was brought in yesterday morning by a construction worker that someone had dumped in an affluent neighborhood evidently, because he didn't get there like this.?
Jordan says someone starved the dog; he's sixty to seventy pounds under weight, plus to top it all off, he's had one of his eyes removed.
Jordan says, "He's very, very sweet. As you can see he has trouble sitting and standing because of the malnourishment he?s so weak."
Jordan says in the last month things have gotten worse for animals. She can't quite figure out why or what people are thinking. ?I've said this before, I don't know how anybody can go home and go to bed at night knowing that they've got an animal in this condition."
The Humane Society needs help with supplies and with foster homes for the animals it rescues. Click the link to the right to find out how you can help.
