I thought I better get a post dispatched ahead of the threatened shit show that is going to be their live feed-a-thon. That’s where they basically hold their viewers hostage unless they cough up money for hay and we’ll get to that in a bit. We also have another horse about to take the long walk to the killing field, more revelations from the inner sanctum of Biz Desk and some other fun stuff today. I have no clue how best to present it or organize things so I’m just going to throw it all up in the air and deal with what lands first. Turns out the worst news hit first, so let’s deal with it…
This was posted about Aviana on July 7th. As you can see, they call her sane and sound and go on and on about how nice she is. She’s actually in pretty decent shape for a HiCaliber horse considering she’s been there since last October. Unsurprisingly, Manson has advertised her as and OTTB because she has a tattoo. Aviana is actually a QH that has raced which is kinda obvious by her very identifiable brand. However, we know Manson doesn’t like blind horses so…
Not even 2 weeks later, the `sane’ mare has become unsafe to treat and is about to get shot in the face. The `board’ voting basically means Manson told her yes men what was going down and they all said `yes, ma’am’. This is bullshit. This is a healthy horse with a lot of life left to live and these asswipes are going to kill her because the don’t have the skill set to deal with her. What was that Manson said about riding with a bit the other day? Something about too many people putting the burden on horses when they should be bringing up their own skill set? This mare came to them with a cloudy eye. If they know blind horses don’t do well with them, then stop fucking buying them!!!! Simple. Why should this mare trust Manson? She doesn’t know who she is other than some loud person that probably gives off all sorts of bad vibes that wants to stick needles in her. It’s not like Manson actually spends any time with any of these animals that might be considered pleasant. I’ve seriously never seen even a vet that had to sedate anything and everything they have to mess with. How about instead of paying for all these drugs all the time, they invest in some lessons on proper handling?
Moose is the old guy they bought from Misner they other day. Romney Faye had already declared him a compassion pull and apparently Manson agrees. What that means is he doesn’t deserve to have his teeth done as Manson danced around the issue tangling herself up in a web of her own lies. Basically, she feels that he’s not worth the dental work because she’ll likely be shooting him soon. I don’t know that Dr. Spini saw him at all, but his teeth do look like EOTRH to me. This link explains it and from what I can tell, Manson basically googled EOTR and misunderstood what they meant be lesions when she attempted to sound like she knew what she was talking about. I guess my point is that if you’re going to purchase the horse, do right by him or leave him for somebody else. Giving him a couple of weeks to get eaten alive by flies and lose even more weight isn’t kind or right. This horse was worthless to Misner. He was never going to ship him because he would have been rejected. He was picked up specifically for HiCaliber to sell to the village idiots.
Meanwhile, behind closed doors, Manson is scrambling. Her favorite ass barnacle seems to have jumped ship or maybe she just found some place close to home where she could pound on horses. I know of another med team member that is gone or going and they are bleeding volunteers. Horses are still getting these horrible rubs by their fly masks and box cutters left where they eat. I’m not even blaming the volunteers. There are too many horses and not enough people to properly meet their needs each and every day. They have untrained and inexperienced people out there doing their best and it’s not enough. This is not setting people up for success. Then they wonder why some horses act wild when they finally decide to mess with them.
It turns out it’s not just the med team that’s falling apart. It seems they’re having issues getting these animals fed too. I’m not sure why any of the residents of that place can’t get off their asses and feed, but apparently it mostly falls to volunteers, although rumor has it Michelle actually lowered herself to water horses the other day. When I heard about it, I immediately ran out and bought a lottery ticket and several cases of bottled water and canned spaghetti. I figured it was either the end of times or a sign that other unusual things might happen that day so I covered my bases. I’ll let you know how it works out. The horse in the picture is thought to be Savannah. You may remember her from being the one usually covered up in a fly sheet. As you can see, yet another emaciated horse failing to thrive at rescue. Thankfully, she’s gone out to a foster that seems to do a good job getting weight on these horses. Why did they allow them to get this bad before getting help???
So this happened tonight. Manson finally decided to show Firetyme on live feed. She claimed it was all about the angles with those past pictures having him look bad. Well, she provided the angles for these screen shots so you can be the judge. I had already been sent the screen shot of her whining about having to feed him. She referred to him as `chubby’ at one point in the video and thinks he’s doing great. Besides the fact he still looks worse than the day he arrived and he was pretty bad then, she has no clue what she’s talking about. This horse is showing signs of refeeding syndrome and she can’t see through her ego enough to realize. No, the big pot belly is not normal, nor is the edema she has mentioned a few times. He needs his proteins not oils and whatever other crap she’s trying to push. Actually, he needs CARE. Robyn was kind clueless enough to show us the kind of care Firetyme has been getting lately…
The above two pics were also from the live feeds tonight. As we can see from his whiteboard, he hasn’t been out of his stall for a walk for six days and nobody has bothered to groom him for a week. That basically means nobody is spending much time with the horse. We probably don’t want to know what’s under that mask right now. I’m not sure why a horse only needs water in the morning either, but this entire `program’ poor Firetyme is on is a pretty good indication of what the problem with this poor old horse is.
Remember Skittles the pony? Skittles was the pony they got outbid on at auction some months ago. I think it might have even been before Christmas or maybe right around that time. They claimed the guy that got Skittles was a dirty flipper and basically pitched a wreck over it. Somehow, they convinced themselves and the village idiots that they were entitled to some first right of refusal on a horse they never owned just because they told the guy to call them if things didn’t work out. Flash forward a few months and the guy is selling the pony and his other horse for whatever reason. He offered them to HiCaliber. I don’t know what their conversations were like apart from them trying to talk him down in price, so that when he finally does show up at HiCaliber he does not have the pony. He says it’s been in an accident or whatever. I don’t know the guy. I don’t know what the deal was aside from the screen shots provided. I just know the pony didn’t materialize and HiCaliber talked all sorts of doom and gloom about the shape he was in. It also inspired this super professional and foul-mouthed, even for Manson, video . Clearly, but these pictures above, he was fine and continues to be fine. Hopefully, that closes the chapter on the Skittles The Pony drama.
So, as many of you already know, we are being bombarded with a live feed-a-thon from HiCaliber. They are `shaking up’ how they fundraise which apparently means they are begging more because they $650 responsible rescue is not keeping Manson and her assistant, Robyn in eyelashes. Robyn even decided to show us where the donor dollars go by doing extreme close-ups of her eyelashes and crowsfeet. Because they can’t come out and say how they spend all the money, they are blaming this on a super great deal for orchard hay this time. That’s right, the last two hay fundraisers we’ve had in the past month were so successful, they’re doing it again and bigger. This time they want $9600. They swear it will last longer. I swear they’re lying. Thankfully, their stunt didn’t last long even though the response was luke warm. Manson got bored and changed her own rules saying it was only until sundown but maybe they’ll be back tomorrow. We’d already seen her stuff her face, trudge around the place, curse, fart and belch. It was the usual from her and her barnacles.
One of the things to come out of the live feed sitch tonight was Manson inadvertently showing the terrible condition of some of the animals and how little she knows. The little donkey, Noel, she referred to as fat and chubby. What she actually appears to be is insulin resistant and is going to be in trouble if they don’t act on it. Trish is in the barn with some kind of bandage job that I can only imagine means they are actually trying to fuck up her legs worse. Does nobody on that ranch know how to run a proper wrap, and what is it with all the tape they use? Use a fucking standing bandage with a pad on the wound! Bunny, yet another Louisiana horse, is in rough shape with the big pot belly and all bones. Poor Breezy still looks like shit as she completely lied her ass off about his situation saying she had become friends with his former owners and had already blown through the 10k the Appaloosas came with. What she neglected to tell everybody is she’s getting ready to kill one of the mares and has been sucking up to the owner so she can do that.
Here’s a few other fun things from live feeds today and recently. The horse in the tiny pen is Mercy, recently returned from Andrew Fice. (seems like all the horses are back from the Ficehole other than poor Dylan and Rojas). I just thought the mountain of shit behind her and her tiny little sand pen might have something to do with a horse getting mean or aggressive eventually. The other screen shot is dumbass Rene outing her fake profile by signing her post thinking she was in the HiCaliber admin profile. Even Manson is careful not to out hers other than that unfortunate incident when a pic of a Japanese aubergine was emailed to the object of her extreme jealousy that one time. So professional, these HiCaliberites!
How long ago was it that Michelle was on the news saying how she needed to tell the stories of all those poor OTTBs with the burned out lips? Except none of them had burned lips and hardly any were OTTBs? Yeah…Remember how she initially told us that Satan had already pulled blood to DNA identify them in Louisiana? Then us `haterz’ informed her that the Jockey Club didn’t use blood to ID horses any more and haven’t for at least 15 years, so she quickly changed her story to having this paper bag of hair that somehow meant she was on it. Turns out that was a lie too. The truth is she’s done nothing and I’m not really surprised because she hasn’t begged for money for the kits yet and you know she would have the second she knew how much they cost whether the fee was getting waived or not. Likely it is not going to be waived. This is a prime example of lying about petty shit. The `racing commission’ has nothing to do with horse identification beyond flipping lips in the paddock during the races. If she wants to know who these horses are, she needs to get DNA kits from the Jockey Club, pull the hair samples and send them in. There is no other way around it. She’s had these horses for over two months and still hasn’t done anything towards finding out who they are like she promised when she was trying to drum up money. It is a simple fucking phone call to get this rolling and she can’t even bother to do that now that the money has been spent and no more is likely coming in for them. The whole effort from requesting kits to horse identification would take about two weeks max.
How awesome! You are all cordially invited to go clean up the mountains of shit on the ranch while Manson sleeps in and has a spa day. I’m sure this is so she can attempt to schmooze some goodwill and maybe cover that large lump sum payment on the ranch that is supposed to be due in a few months. There’s nothing in it for the volunteers other than Manson may wave at you as she drives by in her golf cart, but you can feel good that you did your part in prolonging the inevitable by covering her ass once again. Hopefully the honored guest doesn’t know anything about horses or they’re basically screwed anyhow. The pool party sounds like fun though. Count me in with a guest!
These screen shots are a little #TBT gift for you on a Friday. A few of you have been asking about the mysterious HiCaliber University in the comment section and my moles and insiders are nothing if not givers. I hope they consider the behind closed doors shit fit/meltdown/tantrum over the leaks, my thank you gift to them. This is for sure one of my top five favorite Biz Desk posts maybe ever. For the bargain price of only $50 per class, you can learn horse psychology from Manson! This coming from the person who is so afraid of horses she can’t change a wrap without sedating them to the point of staggering, but she’s going to tell you all about how to `understand and unfuck’ horses. I guess with the number of horses she has a hand in fucking up, she’s creating her own client base. Test riding and groundbreaking with Manson and Bang Bang Becky had to be a laugh a minute. I’m sure they taught how misuse pressure and release techniques and keep your horse guessing at all times. I would totally sign up for the online version of that. Then they even had a trailer class with Bang Bang Becky. If her auction loading techniques were what she was teaching, what a treat that class must have been. How to stand in front of your horse and expect them to move forward. How to reward your horse for not doing what you want. So much to learn I’m surprised they didn’t break it down to beginner, intermediate and advanced sessions. Then we have the piece de resistance, with Manson teaching riding lessons at $45/hr. I wonder if she taught the star fish or the monkey fucking a football seats? Maybe both? What about the one leg hop up to the wither dangle mounting technique? How many lessons until you, too, can get your horse scuttling around the arena with a hollowed out back and its head thrown back showing its extreme discomfort? Mostly I just wonder who was stupid enough to pay these gunsels for this stuff and if they did, where is the money because it sure didn’t show up in the medical fund since they start every `ask’ at $0.
I think we’ve probably had enough fun for one day again. I’m kinda hoping they calm their tits over at HiCaliber so we can have a quiet weekend for a change. One of the little rants Manson got on today was about slaughter. Slaughter is the big funding source for her because she likes to use the threat of it to inspire people to dig deeper. She admitted that she used to be pro slaughter and even tonight, she couldn’t come out and say she was anti. It wouldn’t suit her business model if slaughter was no longer a threat, which explains why she doesn’t bother to educate herself on it or stay up to speed. Sadly, I’m sure most of you know that the return of domestic horse slaughter is a very real threat right now, so there are a few things you can do to speak up if you are so inclined. You can contact you representatives and ask them to pass the SAFE Act because we do not raise horses for food in this country and as such we medicate them differently than animals raised for food. Thank them if they are already a co-sponsor. Then we need to educate people. The worst lie I see is that bringing slaughter back is somehow going to change the numbers of horses shipping to other countries etc. It really won’t. Horses closer to the Mexican border are still going to go there and the ones closer to Canada will still go there. No more and no less horses will be slaughtered because slaughter is a supply and demand business. They will only slaughter what there is a market for and the availability of slaughter in the US does not affect the demand for horse meat in a foreign country. It’s kinda disgusting that a horse rescue as large as HiCaliber, that claims to save horses from slaughter every week is so very ignorant on the subject. Educate yourselves! There are links in the side bar here of some excellent resources on the issue. Go back through the archives on this blog if you’re bored enough. The information is out there. I hope everybody has a happy weekend! Hug a horse in person or by speaking out for them. Most importantly, don’t let Manson make any more disappear.
It is unbelievable that this rescue thinks they should have first rights on all equines at the Ontario auction. An auction is an auction. This one is one of the worst. The flipper she rants about probably takes better care of his equines. Just a thought, but it would be nice to put the Ontario auction out of business.
That auction has been there a long time. I know it has been there at least since 1975, that is when I moved there. I don’t think it will be going out of business. There is still a demand for what they auction. It has always been a dump. At one time there was another auction house, other than Mike’s, that sold horses. I think twice a month. It was located on Euclid. We called it the red barn. They were the better horse auction, Mike’s was the less desirable and the one HiCal goes to didn’t have many horses, mainly cows, pigs and sheep.
Euclid still has a sale but no horses. They sell cows and it’s much nicer than Ontario.
Euclid always was nicer. I know 4 years ago they were still doing cows on Wednesday but someone said they weren’t doing it anymore. I bought my pregnant papered paint mare from Euclid almost 15 years ago
Does anybody know why HC doesn’t go to Mike’s auction anymore?
I heard they got the boot.
Of course; their version is different…
Word is (from someone that witnessed it) they were kicked out & banned for their typical drunken & vulgar behavior
Oh what a shocker !
They got kicked out for doing parking lot deals and cheating the house out of their commission is what I heard.
Same MO they do at Ontario
Plus there’s another rescue that frequents it and HC’s wicked witches shriek and shrivel when faced with an honest and transparent effort put forth for horses. But at least Bubba Misner still reps for HC at Mike’s in his HC emblazoned swag. Deepy derp dude!
I remember a live video of them buying a horse in the parking lot where they made sure to say that they still paid commission to the auction house on any deals they made out there. I think they try to keep the people at that auction happy – they rely on being able to go there and make money.
Fellow Shedrownians…correct me if I’m wrong. I was told that a full semi load of hay is 7 squeezes. A friend is purchasing 4 squeezes of Orchard for 3,500. How does the price go up to 9,600 for 3 more squeezes???
For those of us that put up our own hay, what the hell is a squeeze? LOL
I’m in Arkansas…I thought that must be some California slang lol.
That’s what I thought.
A squeeze or block of hay has 74 bales of 100+ lb. bales.
A squeeze is like a little tractor / forklift that unloads and stacks the hay. I’m not sure how many bales a squeeze can carry but it is then referred to as a squeeze load.
Sounds similar to what we call an accumulator.
Although the number of bales can be different depending on how it was picked up out of the field. Ours are 74 bales per block.
This is off topic but I want to ask. I like to give my horses a pro and pre biotic. I was buy platinum but the price keeps going up. I know there are some very smart horse people on here and also a vet however I don’t know if she is large animal or not. Could I get some recommendations from you all?
Take a look at a product called FORCO. I have a 29 year old hard keeper that has had TO issues. I have tried lots of things. The Forco has really worked for him. And it’s reasonably priced.
That would say G.I. issues…dumb autocorrect
Thank you I will look into that. I don’t have any hard keepers or gi issues with my horses. Just want something that will maybe help keep colic away.
4horses I don’t know. Check Smart Pak
The feed we feed has pre and probiotics added so I don’t need to add more daily. Triple Crown. We also feed Renew Gold which has probiotics added (nutritional yeast) Check your feed bag you might not need extra.
If a horse is on antibiotics for a week or more then we give paste Probios for a few days after
Thank you, Deblonde, smart Pac is more than Platinum I believe.
4horses
Look here
https://www.smartpakequine.com/mobile/ps/6313
Thank you, Deblonde!
Around $20/month
My two cents:
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Colic surgery coverage up to $2500 – all of my boys are on this ☺
My understanding is the premium Orchard comes from the Oregon area. Bales usually weigh around 100# each.
Also hay called Mountain Orchard is not anywhere near the lush green leafy sweet stuff. Sells for much less. Looks more like Timothy.
A friend pays about $25/bale for the good stuff. It would less $$ per bale by the squeeze for sure. More savings per full truck load.
The Orchard I buy comes from Oregon
HiCaliber math. If you never produce invoices and have to be accountable for how much money you raise you can ask whatever you want.
Michelle’s philosophy is to keep asking until people say `No’. I feel we’re getting really close to a big `No’.
I hope so, all those animals need to be saved badly
Is it just me or does it seem like the Village is now more like a few people and volunteers posting lately? I wonder if they realize how many people they have lost? And if they actually cared they would fucking do something about it! Start posting invoices, etc. Stop playing games with updates! And stop buying horses from a kill buyer!! Stop buying equines you are clueless about! Start taking care of the horses you already have. It’s not that complicated! Oh, and stop fucking shooting healthy horses!!
I think she’s still busy tripping over her ego
People said a big fat NO to her brain drain of a live video marathon last Thursday. Although having a personal tour of the overstuffed pens, hundreds of shit piles everywhere, unkempt horses and all those future sand colic victims eating god knows what quality of hay did serve to reaffirm their loss of control. Money streams are drying up a tad. Let’s just say it’s due to summers “being traditionally slow” and not the fact that they’re hemorrhaging donors, volunteers and true blue supporters.
I’m flabbergasted that Romney would have the gall to try and get on disability, while engaged to the supposed “millionaire” DD. WTF man.
This brings up a question, do they all get EBT, Welfare or any other government assistance since they are “unemployed”? I’m guessing its a big yes since they don’t have legitimate income.
I pray to God that the people that have been believing and donating their hard earned money begin to realize and see that the numbers just aren’t adding up!! And they haven’t added up for quite a while now!!
It’s sad and manipulating at it’s worst to see the post of the little girls selling baked goods to help the horses. The little girls have their hearts in the right place, they love animals and want to donate time, money and service to their community and help a cause they believe in. Their parents are obviously trying to instill great morals in their daughters, empathy, a work ethic and donating to charities.
Then you have HiCaliber who preys upon people the kind hearted, those who haven’t figured out exactly who they really are. There are people who have just gullible or have a hard time seeing anything but good in others.
I see that the CEO is in San Francisco this weekend with the fiancé
Oh, are they back on again? I guess that means Dumbass Darrell is going to have to move back in!
Must be nice traveling all over meanwhile back at the ranch….horses are getting shot and starving.
But she never cashes her pay checks! Even though she was trying to get on disability….
Ok that is why she doesn’t cash her checks. You can’t work and apply for SSD. Volunteer her services. Going have a lot of explaining to do.
These people are just vile I feel so sorry for these horses.
looks like Moose (older horse w/ terrible teeth HC bought from Voldy) is going to TIER–True Innocents Equine Rescue in Riverside, CA… they already have a vet scheduled to come see him & do dental…hallelujah!
That’s really great, because any horse that gets out of there is like winning the lotto!
Awesome!
The HC website has Sully listed as Adopted. Huh. They don’t have a “Rescued By A Real Rescue” page, though, so… The IR donkey Noel is on there so they must be updating, long overdue. Website update would have been a good project for Michelle while she recovered from her “broken” back.
That would have required her to get off live feed though.
Under loved and lost there are only 6. Since they are so transparent shouldn’t all the horses that are “loved and lost” be on there? I believe transparency is transparency, right? SMH.
Poor Willow was on their adoptables list for a bit after they’d already shot her for daring to breathe. She’s number ??? of the “dangerous” horses on their non-veterinary approved euth by gunshot list?
At least they’ve always kept the website updated by deleting any “euthanized” horses ASAP
Gotta get them erased off the face of the earth before people start asking questions about them.
I hope that the folks who used to donate to HC and are getting wise, shift their donations to the organizations that are rescuing from HC…. It is so important that the good rescues, the ones that don’t line the kill buyers pockets and have the drama of constant auction saves be supported.
I would like to see them donate straight to the vet, feedsore, farrier. If you have to support them make sure your money goes right to the place you want it to.
I really like that idea, too. Never donated to HC but to a few that list their feed, Amazon Smile, and vet. You know the money’s going to the horse for sure.
This is the only way it will not go to fireball, rent, car, botox, eyelashes, nails, fast-food. Michelle can pay for this with Beckys money. Robin get a real job!
Legitimate rescue would have no problem with that.
Some of us are getting wise. Thankfully Manson only got about $100 of my hard earned money. There are 2 other rescues that I’ve donated to in the past & will be getting my $ again. Both have always accounted for & shown receipts & vet bills.
HC’s ranch truck is dead & they’re looking for someone to bring Mirage & Aussie to SLR this week for their surgeries. How can you have 160-ish horses under your care but not 1 working truck/trailer to bring 2 horses to vet?!? What would happen if there was an emergency & they needed to get horses out of there fast?!
#hicalibersucks!
I will only donate to rescues that list their feed store, vets, Amazon Smile, and farriers. That’s all folks. Thank you very much.
That is right way to do it.
Interesting that they never seem to have a problem getting the truck and trailer working for auction days and parades. Yet they always seem to need a “hauler” when a horse needs a ride to the vet or they are liquidating stock to make room for new inventory.
true, good point
What happened to Richie’s truck that she’s been driving? Or Becky’s?
Way to set up an attempt for fundraising for a new truck..
Just a wild guess
She’s been trying to manifest a new truck for a few months now.
Didn’t whatshisname Price on their board of directors just give her a truck? I see they’re really pushing the sexual favors for hauling angle. Isn’t that illegal? Maybe they should consider relocating to Nevada. Rene could then be extra annoying by being in more of their photos and the Bunny Ranch could start offering horseback riding to put some miles on the horses and to improve their client/hooker meet and greets.
That’s what I thought?
Perhaps Price only loaned the truck. He did buy the trailer for her from what I’m told. I believe Rene is threatening to grace us all with her presence for their Fireball Friday extravaganza.
That might be why she’s soliciting sex for haulers. She needs a new sugar daddy. Is Becky’s usefulness (read; paycheck) running out? I saw that we would be blessed with Rene’s presence. Maybe Leah will be there too and they can have a bitch-off. My money’s on Leah!
I think Becky’s pockets aren’t quite as deep since her demotion. She took a big pay cut. Rene reminds me of that stupid yappy puppy cartoon where the little dog follows the big dog yapping out `what are we gonna do? where are we gonna go?’ and really has no brain of its own.
Did Becky get demoted because of the shenanigans with HiCal? I was wondering why she wasn’t more careful especially in her position.
I have no idea. Just see on Transparent California she is no longer a captain as of last year. She still makes a good wage, just not what she was making.
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Rebecca+Marodi
Hi Shedrow and faithful followers 🙂
In response to your Becky statement(s).
She may have been on a T&D (Training and Development) position or a Limited Term position as Fire Captain.
Myself, I work for the State as well:
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Susan+L+Cooper&y=
You can see were I took a VOLUNTARY demotion in order to facilitate my spouse moving to a better area for health reasons. So please people, don’t judge something like salary with the State employees, MOST of us work extremely hard for less pay (better benefits though) than we would make in the private sector. I get to work at 6 AM Monday through Friday, I am supposed to leave at 3 PM but that seldom happens, and I don’t get overtime because that has to be approved in advance, often I don’t leave until 5PM because I have unfinished work that needs to be done for the next day.
I am in no way defending Becky’s actions at HC, but her position adjustment could have been anything.
Thank you and now back to our regularly program,
Susan L. Cooper
State Employee since 2008
I always think about emergencies, especially being in an area where you can have fires. No working truck/trailer means they couldn’t get ANYTHING out, but even if they could… there are well over 100 horses there, it would be impossible to get them all out if needed.
Even if they had many trucks and trailers trying to get out of Valley Center in the event of a fire is a nightmare.
Yeah exactly… I’d be nervous with fires if I had just a couple horses there
To evacuate during a fire crisis – to save that many horses and people – would take nerves of steel and a rational sober mind. Michelle and crew should maybe rethink their fireball EAD business attitude.
I hate to say it, but they would probably have to turn them loose to fend for themselves. There was a big fire where I live about a month ago. Sheriffs didn’t want to let outsiders in with horse trailers to help evacuate, they finally did. They told the owners to write their names and phone numbers on the halters or horses and turn them loose. I can see HiCal tuning them loose with no numbers. The poor horses wouldn’t know what to do and all that shit would ignite
Hopefully they only spark up the holy herb while they’re in the pool or inside then.
In the case of a fire or other emergency, I could see them just leaving everything and saving their own asses. Would solve their over-crowding problem.
bet they don’t have emergency evac. plans in place, not to mention a “safe-spot” location where they could bring all those horses in an emergency. Wonder if they’ve ever even thought of it.
The only place equipped to handle that many horses is the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Though for those of you local will remember during the 2007 fires the fairgrounds filled up so fast and they were turning people away. We luckily got some of the temporary barns at the old Ride America but it was beyond a nightmare as we only had 35 horses!
She’s probably use it as an excuse to break out her gun and put down all the ones she doesn’t like. The reason could be that it was better than the option of them burning to death in a fire or running loose and ending up in the slaughter pipeline or bad backyard.
Here is the link to “weed abatement” from Balley Center Fire Protection. Sounds to me that they need a good inspection seeing as how their shit piles are extremely flammable, not mention the weeds around all round pens, etc. the proof comes from their own video’s. SoCal is very big on fire abatement.
http://www.vcfpd.org/weed.html
I am on evacuation now with my horses from wildfires. I’ve certainly learned a lot.
Having an emergency plan and a working truck and trailer is so important!
Did anyone else see the post on HiCal in the visitors section? With their arrogant comment to CANTER?
Seriously, you want to bash one of the top and best equine rescues in the US, they are so fucked up! I can’t see visitors oat but that is f-ed up if they even attempt to attack them! Shame on them!
Talk about burn some serious bridges and rub a lot of serious horse people the wrong way!
#iamshedrow #hicaliberfuckingsucks Visitors posts but Sent from my iPhone
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HiCal and their village idiots have a thing about TB organizations because they can’t access that funding due to the fact that most TB funding organizations actually expect some transparency and accountability.
They can’t access fund because of the actions of the main people in the organization who have no clue what it means to be professional or even somewhat concerned for the well being of the animals in their care!
Michelle and Romney will never have any respect in the TB worlds after everything they have done, TRUST ME after this last stunt with the #PTTB20 they never will! Many no the scam they tried to pull and nobody will support them now from the racing community! To be blunt they fucked themselves. Sent from my iPhone
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Some of the TB funding bodies my have had a little heads up about them too.
Yes.
What a laughable response from HiCaliber. On so many levels…
CANTER does an amazing job advertising really really nice horses. And, unlike the dipshits over at HiCaliber, the people with the CANTER networks usually advertise temperaments and medical histories honestly AND they know how to take conformation shots.
Side note: there is a shady as fuck thoroughbred flipper, I think in KY, that frequently steals CANTER photos and then photoshops them with different colors and markings to sell horses. I forgot the name of the place because they seem to change it up yearly.
And these are the same folks who are so sensitive to criticism that they won’t work with anyone who is critical of them, even if only slightly.
HiCaliber can’t see the forest for the trees. They are the problem and complain about the consequences at the same time. They rile their supporters up to rescue horses every week and every time they need an influx of cash and don’t think a fundraising scam will work. Then they suffer the consequences which they have readily admitted; people don’t open up their wallets for the horse that is already saved.
For them it is even harder to raise funds for horses already saved because they go to auction every week. It’s like a weekly paycheck. They have it figured out how much money they need to bring in every week.
Other rescues at least have the common sense to not attend a weekly auction. Then again, they aren’t operating a rescue to scam money and support their lifestyle.
That’s “Thoroughbred Sport Horses” and they are SHADY as fuck.
They photoshop the horses (badly) to appear less skinny and more conformationally correct, then put them on blindingly goofy ass stock photo backgrounds of shit like the beach and rainforests to distract from the changes.
They refuse to allow you to see the property, much less the actual horse before you buy it, and you can schedule a pre-purchase exam but it has to be with THEIR vet– you are not allowed to send a vet of your own.
SO MANY people have gotten horses from them who are skin and bones, functionally crippled, or otherwise “not as advertised.”
The daughter of the lady that runs the operation has been ostracized from her own family because she started speaking out against what her mother was doing.
TBSH is a veritable shit show.
(My above comment was for Hippocrates, re: TBSH)
Eventer/blogger Carleigh Fedorka wrote a pretty good summary of them (and a follow up) which can all be found here:
Racetraker: Yep! That is the one! I was always flabbergasted that people couldn’t tell the horses were photoshopped. And most of the sale videos were laughably terrible. Plus, I can’t imagine buying a horse via paypal, sight unseen, and without the option of using an outside vet for a prepurchase. Then again, that is exactly what most of the feedlot rescues are doing. TBSH and THL would make good bedfellows.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1415949465153719&id=355518451196831
Looks like that backfired on HiCal. Most of the comments are against HiCal
Perhaps they should just shoot them like you do HiCal?
Just proving putting lipstick on a pig … still a pig. Fantastic opportunity to take the high road.. both feet into the mud.
So where’s that money and transparency and how many went to misers kill pen and how many got a bullet.
I’ve read shedrowconfessions and haven’t commented but how dare lying POS to criticize. You are just a scam like the others.
Woah wait a minute. I did not take that as bashing HiCaliber Horse Rescue at all…not one bit. In fact, I took it as bashing the kill buyers who have figured out how to be “rescuers.” For HiCal to respond with “Blaming others for your poor marketing” Really? I’m a big HiCal supporter, but that post just made my stomach hurt. Please don’t be like that. Have class and dignity and reach out a hand of support. Don’t talk shit. That just really made me sad. We all have to work together, we’re all fighting for the same thing.
That was in such poor taste. Hopefully this will just turn more people against #HiCaliber.
“Then Daphne for her started”?? ….why does this mare need to be re-homed??
Link to her finaly worked.
probably meant she “got” her started. She needs a home because HiCaliber has threatened to kill her… for being too hard to handle? She’s a pony! This one really pisses me off.
Yeah. She is one I would take in a min. Worked with hunter / jumper ponies most of my life. They demand respect and deserve it for packing kids around.
I’ve been reading the euthanasia thread and I feel like I want to pound my head against the wall. Or atleast domes head! I almost posted this but decided to take a breath and post it here:
I can’t believe some people are saying to euthanize an untrained horse at a RESCUE without any proof that these two are dangerous. 😔 I think they just aren’t handled enough. When you have over 100 horses on your property I doubt every horse gets handled everyday. And everyone keeps talking about saving the funds to buy more horses. Is the new mission to only safe broke horses? Because rescue starts with the purchase and then training should be essential for every horse that comes in to be a safe adoption candidate.
Are you referring to Ericka’s thread? A few people chimed in about the difference between feral and green. It was almost comical seeing HC get outed.
Actually the HC thread. Erika rocks! The minions are happy to shoot a couple horses to make room for Tuesday.
Manabouttoen
I emailed Shedrow about some info on the Tuesday Auctions I know you wanted to possibly attend some time , trying to get in contact with you. I can’t post my email publicly and it’s very easily states my name. Can you email Shedrow you email and hopefully we can trade info?
Sounds like a legit thing to say to them to me!
This was in response to eyeswideopen
Thanks! I just know they are super ban happy right now and they are watching what I say.
Buckle up. It’s about to get worse! Ha ha ha ha!!!
Btw that was supposed to say “or atleast pound someone’s head in” in my upper post. Lol
HC is now attacking CANTER. Fun times, y’all.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1415949465153719&id=355518451196831
Michelle responded and backpeddled! Not surprising.
SIGH!!! You can not use the word business and donations in the same comment. Your making money as business or your accepting donations for a Non Profit……
Did anyone see that Chi got adopted? I’m thrilled, but still worried about Chardonnay… anyone know anything?
Chardonnay is pending an adoption from what I saw on a comment. Sadly, there will always be more that are UNHANDLED that will be deemed dangerous.
Pending apparently
Michelle really is absolutely clueless as to what a real rescue entails. In her self induced haze, I think she truly believes that people follow “her,” and not the animals. Her diagnosis supports it, her videos support it, and her fundraisers support it. (“Win a date with me and Becky!”) Even the fact that donations are down, it doesn’t dawn on her that donations are down not because of haters, but because as more and more of the shit show gets exposed, people disagree with what is happening with the animals. Their cluelessness has hit an all time high.
Many of these animals are going to have ulcers. and in some cases the behavioral changes associated with ulcers may very well be why they have been sent to auction. Therefore, it is wise to start ulcer treatments. NOT ulcer preventatives, but treatment for pre existing ulcers, which is completely different–and, of course, expensive.
Multiple food changes in a short amount of time frequently causes colic. Of course they have no idea of what the animal was fed (if they were) before they arrived, but forcing different amounts/types of hay will also wreak havoc with ulcers as well as promoting colic.
Reputable rescues know that introducing a new horse into a herd can take time in order to prevent stressors on the herd as well as the individual. Just because horses were in a pen with a bunch of others at he auction doesn’t mean they were part of a herd, it merely added to the individual’s stress. Don’t jump on them immediately, give them a bit to settle down, introduce them into a herd slowly, and chances are that they may very well see an entirely different individual. Quit making them fight for food, and forcing the less dominant ones to take a backseat and starve. Ensure that all receive the best for their individual needs. Time consuming? Absolutely.
Quit buying these horses at auction until care can be taken of the horses they have. These aren’t feral, they’re unhandled. There is a difference. Start working with the ones you have, and make them adoptable, NOT dead. You claim to be a rescue, and rescue means that the horse is supposed to be safe. You’re not a self appointed “God,” determining their fates because you can’t jump on them and ride them immediately. They ended up at auction for a reason, and there is no reason in the world for this many deaths at the hands of a rescue. Rescuing and money take time, time, time. Involve the donors in what you’re doing, same as you did with Snuggles. People flocked to him because they saw exactly what Buzz was doing. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Yes. It’s called transparency. Rescue is expensive.
For God’s sake, clean up the damned place, and hire some professionals. Not Andrew Fice, who admits he is used to roughstock. This is what rescues DO in order to ensure good quality of life for the horses in their care and to the best possible outcomes for them. Not death, standing around in shit filled pens, covered with disease carrying flies.
Quit using multiple paypals and be transparent, honest and accountable, and work towards the best for your horses by understanding them first.
You know word is out when the people are trying to get horses adopted out of that hell hole by sharing them in FB groups and the majority of comments are totally negative about HiC.
Shed, did you get my email? Haven’t gotten a reply yet so i wanted to make sure.
You might have to refresh my memory. I get a lot of emails and the only one I got from a D was more of an FYI?
Actually you get better hay out of Washington at better prices then you do from Oregon. I only purchase from 2 places in Oregon if I am getting low before the semi comes from Washington with our loads.
That sex for trade comment, I would think could get them in trouble if the right party got wind of it. As Far as I know Prostitution is still illegal in CA. They make me sick. And for someone to jump in and say it’s a Joke, lighten up. Really? Michelle comes across to me and many many others as the type of person who would trade sex for alot of things not just hauling. I wish someone would go in undercover and bust their asses. Cracks me up they don’t know the difference between a feral horse and a Arabian. They really are doing a injustice to the horses that are unhandled or green because calling them feral implys they are “Wild Horses” Like the wild mustangs and people think of the wild horses and it scares them off from adopting HI Cal’s “Feral Horses”. It really pisses me off cuz in all my yrs of owning horses or breeding arabs have I ever known of an arab to be born from a pack of wild mustangs unless and this a very small unless someone turned out a arab stud and mare and they became wild from no handling for yrs. Like I said very unlikely.
Considering she used to sell her crusty underwear on Craigslist, it’s not really such a big leap to think she’d trade a handie off for a favor. Lord knows she offers nearly anybody that comes near her including the KC Transport guys back in May.
She sold her undies on Craigslist? WHAT? Hhhahahahahahah
Yes she did. Not even joking about that a little bit.
Ummmm why ? Is there a demand for such things ? I’m not sure if I’m more amused or disgusted. It’s a bit of a combo platter…haha
I’m assuming if people were buying there was a demand. I’m pretty grossed out though.
HiCaliber found their gravy train of easy cash flow with the Thompsons swindle and are back at it. This time they’ve made illusions to 800 slaughter bound horses. Why stop at the 52 thoroughbreds when you can try for 800 right?
Will it be the same scam as the mare/foal pairs? Give some feedlot or kill buyer money (while lining their pockets with kickbacks).
Thanks for posting. I just went and looked and can’t believe what people are posting. Someone sent $1000 from a company volunteer match program. No accountability where that money will go. Down payment on new truck?
I believe the `800′ is just poor wording for the next 800 they `save’, not that there is a big save like that out there at the moment.
“responisble rescue” She’s always saying, $1000 x 800 thats $800,000 my guess is they need some sort of payment for the property, new truck & possibly boob jobs & liposuction for all board members.
And didn’t another rescue take Moose 2 days ago? Someone sent a donation for his hay or hoof needs. Rene Thanked the doner. No mention he went to another rescue.
But when they were called on it they just claim that they’re volunteers and it’s another groups job to handle this aspect of the rescue or that aspect of the rescue so don’t blame them. If they are posting on social media and soliciting money, they better know who it’s for, have it be accurate, and be willing to be held accountable when it’s not right or up to date. They’re taking someone else’s money!
Moose went to TIER
Did someone call them on it? I don’t see anything. My Friend was going to but she can no longer comment either.
Someone did call HC out on it……………..the donor didn’t care. She just ‘picked a name’, so it can go to any horse, doesn’t have to be Moose………….
I just seen it… An excuse for everything huh… And WTF mind you do you contact Adulting@hicaliber.com for. Every time i’ve donated to a rescue they send me a receipt. And at the end o the yr. I get some tax form in sent to me showing the toal I donated to that said rescue, for the calender yr.
I can spell just didn’t double check my message before hitting send… I swear… Lol
I have a question. Someone posted on Thursday a link to animals-area.com about HiCaliber rescuing 9 stallions from a rental string. Raised $13000. When did this happen? Also I have never heard of a rental string using stallions.
They weren’t stallions, that was the notrious `slaughter11′. Long story on those.
I remember the slaughter 11. Boy was someone given the wrong info who wrote that article. Thank you for clarifying
I would love to hear details on that one. That is when my spidey senses started regarding them as a rescue. It didn’t seem right then. Even less now
You’ll get the deets on that soon.
Shed. You got some receipts on this lol!
OH yes I do and I’ll be serving up the tea soon enough.
Ok, that’s funny! LMAO
very sweet pic of Saban meeting/making friends w/ man at TGC on their page (I think he’s an equine PT?) His face says it all, he appears calm and at peace 🙂
Doesn’t he look like a love bug? Sweetest face…..he has some serious gratitude and it shows
Now if only Firetyme could get the hell out of there and who ever else is on the shot and don’t tell list.
Is the post about helping rescue the next 800 auction horses in anyway related to the supposed reality show they are trying to bag? Remember there was mention that a special guest was coming to the ranch on Saturday. Hmmm.?
I seriously think everybody is misreading it. I think she’s referring to how many they claim to have already rescued and is talking about the next 800 in the future.
That makes a lot more sense if they are claiming they’ve rescued 800 over the years they’ve been operating and want to push for the next 800 in the years to come. Too bad they do it with their current model.
Before they save the next 800 though, how about they update the lost but not forgotten page of their website with all those that have been lost… even the ones they want us to forget.
I agree with your interpretation Shedrow.
Everything I see on their Facebook page seems to be a reaction to the big flashlight you are shining on them. They finally thanked Pam for Saban and pretended they are working partners with other rescues. There has been a flurry of videos and sale ads and feel good posts from their volunteers. Maybe there was an essay assignment?
On visitor posts there’s a linked article about staying away from kill buyers. The visitor said the article confirms HC is doing the right thing but I read the article and took away the opposite meaning. Maybe I need to re-read. Anyone else see it?
I’m not sure if that was a clever video post or the person didn’t read it. I took it the same way you did
I’m sure it is volunteers cleaning it up because it looks like they are in Vegas wanting to meet up and have lunch with village minions.
From what they said, they were in Vegas overnight. I’m sure HiCaliber picked up the tab on that considering they can write it off as a board meeting.
I just saw the hashtag #skyherd”. !!!!
I seriously got a rush of nausea when o read that. How about #ikillanimalsforattention. 🤢
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