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Case ID: 19526
Classification: Neglect / Abandonment
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Severe neglect at livestock auction
Los Lunas, NM (US)

Incident Date: Saturday, Mar 10, 2012
County: Valencia

Disposition: Not Charged
Case Images: 9 files available

Person of Interest: Dennis Chavez

Undercover investigators have exposed the shocking neglect of horses at a U.S. livestock auction house, releasing harrowing footage of four animals in the throes of a slow and undignified death.

Despite the activists' pleas for the horses to be euthanized, a state inspector who was present at the sale earlier this month seemed reluctant to end their suffering.

The video below was filmed in a large pen at Dennis Chavez's Southwest Livestock Auction and Feedlot, in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

The emaciated horses are seen slumped on the dirt, their bones protruding and eyes glazed as they struggle to stand.

They can barely muster the strength to lift their heads - one mare even carries an open wound on her hip, her hair streaked with blood.

Another - a palomino - is shown in a similarly dire condition, her legs entangled in orange twine, while a second grey mare appears to have been thrashing for long enough to have scraped deep ruts in the ground, her tongue lolling out of her mouth.

One of the four took her last breath while the campaigners were still on site.


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