I was going to get a post together for Throwback Thursday, but Tuesday’s post was so jam-packed with assholery and then I didn’t get to writing anything in time to be out on Thursday. I’m also a procrastinator at the best of times and even more so when there is something unpleasant to do. I realize that by now you’ve all watched the dramatic live feed with Charles Manson Michelle from her hospital bed where she has been since karma paid her a little visit on Saturday. It was so touching to see her laying there with a smorgasbord of food arranged around her as she rambled on while jonesing for opiates and shoving ice cream down her gullet. Even cross-eyed from the good drugs, she managed to lie her ass off about what happened and how it happened, but whatever gets her through the day which, going by what she was hinting around for, is wine and flowers, or at least that holds her over until she can shoot something in the face. I’m sure the devoted disciples will dig extra deep to send some sympathy donations, so no worries. However many of my fellow horse people have had the same injury, including myself, and they did so with far less dramatics or overnight hospital stays. None of us were living on donations though, so make of that what you will. All that aside, I do have some stuff to share and it’s probably going to piss people off. I’ve been marinating it for a few days and trying to figure out how to put it in a way that wasn’t quite so harsh, but there is no gentle way to share, so I’m just going to come out with it and you can digest it just like I did. Hope you have some Zantac or whatever. This isn’t a feel good post. As always, please read the screen shots for some context to get us started.
I know we already talked about the loss of Casey in another post. He was the one that died the other day after being found cast in the pens. Turns out, as usual, that was the HiCaliber cleaned up version and the truth is somewhat more horrific. As most of us that have dealt much with horses know, that for a horse to `die on his own’ from being cast, there had to be a lot of pain and struggle involved and it likely wasn’t quick. It turns out that despite what was said by Rene in the screen shots above, there was no vet called immediately. By the time Casey was found he was tangled in the panels and it was evident there had been a lengthy and violent struggle. We know that Michelle wasn’t around, but apparently neither was her gun which Becky said she couldn’t find. So, instead of this serene scene Rene paints with the volunteers lovingly ministering unto him as he gently drifted away, there was an elderly horse thrashing and struggling as he fought to live. He suffered. Terribly. We also know that had recently had strangles and feet bad enough that made being in the barn necessary after being returned from his adoptive home a few months ago. Only very recently Casey been kicked out of his stall into a pen where he was being fed an inadequate mush diet. Lots of room for error if those alfalfa pellets weren’t soaked properly and enough or if his feed tub wasn’t cleaned out between feedings and it went rancid on him. You have to be really carefully with mush diets especially in hot climates. Turns out that Casey did have a gastric torsion and because they couldn’t find the gun, Becky decided to just pump him with drugs until he died and not the blue juice that is meant for that sort of thing either. However, given what I’m about to talk about, I’m not so sure that Becky couldn’t find the gun as much as shit her pants and bottled out. As for Rene, she talks out her ass a whole bunch and it’s important to remember that she lives in Nevada. I was going to start a drinking game where I took a shot every time she inadvertently throws HiCaliber under the bus with her misinformation, but I didn’t want to drink myself into alcoholism.
The horse above was HiCaliber Grant. Was. I’m sure many of the villagers didn’t really get to know much about him because he didn’t last long at the ranch. Grant was a horse they bought from Misner on or about May 10th, 2016. Back then they referred to it as buy backs and Dr. Grove still did their intakes and not every horse needed to be drugged to its knees for that to happen. At the time of intake, Dr. Grove did not seem overly concerned with the proud flesh on the front, saying it was old, but rated him a 2/5 lameness behind. For sure the horse was off at the trot, but he was in good body condition and obviously not in any distress. Sadly, between that intake in mid May and July 11th, 2016, things either went badly enough for Grant or he didn’t warm up to Michelle enough that it was decided he needed to be `compassionately euthanized’ and this time it was Becky’s turn to do the honors. I’m sure many of you that have followed HiCal have heard Michelle’s long rants about gun vs chemical euth and the one thing she stresses is how much easier it is on a horse, especially for those that they can’t get a needle into and she doesn’t want that to be their last moment anyhow. She makes it all sound so awesome with them being lovingly fed treats and not feeling a thing. Also, not really the truth as most of them are just tied up to the trailer to wait their turn to get shot in the face. In Grant’s case it was even worse than that. He was one of a couple of horses being shot in the face that day and for whatever reason, they decided to drug him up first. Kinda hard to figure out why, when the whole reasoning for them to shoot them is so they don’t have to drug them, but whatever. From what I’ve seen in countless other videos, they drug everything to the point of staggering, so I imagine that was the case with Grant as his head started to droop and Becky took her shot. Sadly, Grant jerked his head up at the last second, as drugged up horses often do, and Bang Bang Becky missed the mark, and only hurt him really bad. Bad enough that he flipped over backwards, tumbled down a hill until he hit a tree to break his fall and then ended up tangled up in barbed wire, but still very much alive. He was also likely very afraid and in pain, but he had to wait for Bang Bang Becky to get her shit together enough to climb down there, grab him by the halter and finish him off. With an ending like that, I’m not exactly sure what they saved him from. That’s exactly the kind of ending we anti-slaughter advocates fight against minus the tree, barbed wire and hysterics. Wish that was an isolated incident, but it wasn’t.
I’m going to group two incidents together for the next bit because the information, while accurate and backed up from multiple sources, doesn’t include the horses’ names sadly. The first involved yet another horse being shot at HiCaliber, this time a gray one and, for some reason they were doing it close to the road, but had vehicles attempting to block the view from people passing by. That didn’t work out so well because this time a passer-by did see what appeared to be a male vet from Temecula Creek with the gun in his hand and he wasn’t any better at finding his mark than Bang Bang Becky. In fact, it was so bad that there was blood EVERYWHERE as it poured out of the horse and was also all over the vet. To the passer-by it looked like a crime scene or an abattoir floor after a full run. I have no idea WTF a vet was doing shooting a horse, but I’m sure Charles Manson Michelle was positively moist over the ordeal. Just like she was in her glory when a visitor to the property had the misfortune to stumble in right after one of their killing sprees. This particular one ended up with Michelle and company chopping the horse into pieces so that by the time the visitor arrived, there were severed legs hanging out of the golf cart that hauls the HiCal elite around. I don’t even want to know what it takes to be able to do that. I also don’t want to imagine the mess from chopping a horse up or even what equipment one must have on hand. I can’t even debone a chicken without mangling it, so this is well beyond the scope of my imagination. Appare ntly the 30% vet uses body parts for teaching or at least that’s the official story about why she chops up horses. The deeper reason is likely just that she gets off on it.
I had yet another horse that took a bullet in the face to talk about today, but I think I’ll save her for another day. We’ve heard enough sad stories for one day and more will continue to crop up as people start to wake up and come forward. There as still been no intake video or even details on the load of horses Cheech Dana brought in from Louisiana nearly a week ago, so half could be dead and nobody will be the wiser. As their horse population continues to explode because they will not stop buying horses, they have now been reduced to paying people to `adopt’ some of their horses. That’s right, they’ll throw in a $100 amazon certificate with the adoption of one of their pasture puffs. That’s an awesome deal because it’s not like they’ll ever check up on the horse either. In fact Romney Faye Baker has taken to all but refer to horses as some sort of product rather than sentient beings. She doesn’t talk about placing or rehoming them, but instead refers to `moving’ them like you would move inventory. Romney Faye Baker and Charles Manson Michelle also keep telling us that they need to acquire whatever horse so they can tell its `story’. What they don’t mention is that story will be fictional. I want to tell their truths. I don’t think a `rescue’ or any other horse should have a death as horrific as it would have had in a slaughter-house nor should they die nameless and be chopped up so some psycho can play out their medical fantasies and get their jollies. That is NOT rescue. That is not restoring their dignity. I refuse to let them die in vain if I can help it. I don’t think I’m alone in this. I hope not anyhow…
For crying out loud Romney, get some grief counceling and STFU about your baby. After all the fall out Romney still wants to go back to LA and buy 18, give or take, and foals. That is 36 more horses. Where are they going to put 36 more horses? I truly think she has lost her mind.
She was also talking about possibly raising funds to feed the horses for a week BUT the horses will be owned by Thompson’s. So now, people will donate to feed horses for a week that are owned by a kill buyer.
I keep wanting to believe this rescue I have followed and donated to for years just made a mistake with the LA purchase but it seems like now they just want to shove it down the villagers throats to prove the “haters” that they win. What they win, I have yet to figure out. Guaranteed they are getting no more money from me!
I would love to join the Facebook group you created but I don’t want their villagers messaging me or bothering me. I’m still following their page to watch the show basically.
I’m super disappointed in the direction they’re going. I will begin looking into a rescue near me who is small and generally takes in horses from homes that just can’t care for them.
According to Celebrity.money for 2016-2017 “Concerning his private life, Sheets is not very open and prefers to keep it to himself. He is not one who posts his life facts on social networking sites and etc. Due to this, it has been rumored that he is GAY. However, he is known to be married twice. Sheets has two children from his first marriage and two step children in his current marriage with Kimber” GAY ???? LOL That would make for a funny reality story with Romney
Read more: http://celebritynetworth.wiki/darrell-sheets-net-worth/#ixzz4izq3gVWJ
I’m not really interested in that sort of thing as it has nothing to do with what is going on at HiCaliber. His involvement has been minimal and I’ll get to it if these bitches ever take a day off from their dramatics and let me have a chance to write it up.
I can’t even with these people.
I’m actually dumbfounded at the amount of sheer stupid going on. I hope Shedrow has fun will this giant circus of a mess.
I’m getting getting real tired of their shit.
I don’t know who Kari Brown is but she is spewing truth throughout their comments! Hysterical. I’m sure she will be banned shortly as they are screaming ADMIN!!!!
Better screen cap her before they make it go away. LOL
Debra Laufenberg too! Saying Darrel Sheets should spend some of his millions for saving horses since he is engaged to Romney. LOL
Darrell is a dumb ass and not as big of a fish as he’d like people to believe.
We’re not being pumk’d this is exactly what happens with the money you sent to rescues if you do not check them out horses are stars and sold to solder houses what happened to this horse is unspeakable and she should be held responsible for her actions I’d like to do to her what she’s done to these horses and we all know it’s not the first time that this is happened money is greed. And I am literally holding my tongue back from all the words I’d like to call her fuck off bitch .
Is it just me or does anyone else see the similarities between what has become of Hicaliber AC4H?
*** what has become of Hicaliber and AC4H? Does anyone know if this lot of mini’s is the bunch that Suzy T usually picks up and brings back to So. Cal? I’m sure she would not be to thrilled if so.
Hopefully it won’t take as long to get it stopped this time around.
Here’s a copyright of Michelle’s invitation to someone who has a problem with HC and was questioning their antics. Does that mean any of us can go too?! Posting screenshots to my FB group.
“Tina, we’ve got a San Diego Humane Society Investigations Officer on our board… She wouldn’t risk her career for a sham. I’d love to have you out to see for yourself. Call Temecula Creek Equine and speak to Dr. Moss or Dr. Spini about our care. Call San Luis Rey Equine Hospital who are at our ranch weekly. They will tell you we go above and beyond for our horses… I’m happy to give you a tour so you can see for yourself.”
Not copyright but *copy….damn autocorrect!
Take her up on it!
That was the first thing I thought when I saw her in the hospital bed. Karma is a bitch! Omg to hear her go on about how she misses the horses…and how she hasn’t got to see the two horses that her and Becky got to keep for free of course all fees including transport paid by that donor dollar!
My 26 yr old. son (who has ridden all of his life) came off of my Arab gelding at the lope on 3/22/17. He is 6ft tall 220 lbs. There was NO WAY he could’ve gotten back up on that horse (we barely got him in the car and 1 1/2 mi to hospital). He was in AGONY because he broke the transverse processes of T-2 ,3 and 4. He refused Morphine until the xrays came back (opting for a single Norco) and was released after a CAT scan showed no internal injuries. if I could figure out how to post the pictures of his black, blue, and purple bruises, I would. There is NO DOUBT he took a bad tumble. He missed 2 weeks of college and work and had to walk with a cane for about a month. No admission, opiates on tap, or rehab. Something, actually a LOT of things don’t add up about her story…
I’ve had similar injuries and for sure wasn’t moving around like she was or sitting like she was. I still can’t lay in certain positions. My bruises were spectacular. However, I am not histrionic so laying around in a hospital while drug seeking was not really something that I was into.