Horses
Amber | Cinder | Duke | Hannah | Mama Tuki | Margarita | Mrs Large | Princess | Vashti | Ruby | Bella | Jackson | Kati Large
Hannah was born in 1975. We don't know much about her previous life, but she came to Ching from the feedlot. We were able to rescue her because it was hard to keep weight on her. She has Cushing's Disease, which is also why her coat is thick and looks scraggly. Her vision is fine but she often has to wear a fly mask to protect her eyes due to a previous tear duct injury. The mask keeps all of the bugs and impurities out of her eyes and she can see right through it.
Slaughtering horses for meat recently became legal in the U.S., but at the time it was not so a horse like her was shipped to Canada or Mexico for slaughter. If someone has a horse that they no longer want, cannot care for, or is no longer useful to them they can sell the horse to a feedlot for a very low price. This way they make $50 or so instead of spending the money to have the animal humanely put down. To put down a horse humanely it takes one shot and only costs about $79. Unfortunately many people would rather make a few bucks than spend the money to have an animal put down humanely like they would do for a dog or a cat.
The purpose of a feedlot is to fatten animals up before they are slaughtered. The animals are well fed but that is about the only care they get. If an animal is sick, it is not given veterinary care. It would cost the people at the feedlot too much. A horse will only get care if it is injured to the point that it can't walk. This is because it is illegal to send a horse to slaughter if it is blind or can't walk onto the truck itself.