I have a confession to make. I’m actually very much a silver linings kinda person. I tend to try to look for the good in a situation or, at the very least, seek the higher meaning or lesson in things. I don’t mean that in a Pollyanna way, but it usually prevents a lot of stress for me and keeps me from bogging down with negative thoughts. For a split second last week, I had almost manged to put a positive spin on Manson’s latest live feed extravaganzas. With everything being all about her, I thought I could just give them a pass and not have to comment on much. If she wants to be a vulgar hose-beast on live feed, more power to her. That, alone, does not require my commentary because I’m not out to change that. However, the positivity was only for a split second because despite my good intentions, she’s still Manson and she’s been Mansoning out in a big way lately, including yet another killing rampage at the ranch. So, y’all know the drill. Grab a beverage, get comfy and breathe deep, we have a lot of ground to cover. Where to start?
I guess this is a good jumping off point. Poo and water. Constant themes at the HiCaliber feed lot. They are still having issues with horses having NO WATER. Why? This is from their private forums, but clearly one volunteer is leaving and waters aren’t done despite what Shaw Na Na aka Shawna Ortega claims in the discussion group. There is never a single mention of Manson or any of the other residents with their sleeves rolled up. Nope. It’s all on the volunteers and who cares if they have jobs to get to or obligations of their own? Note that Techie is still hanging out with some fillies. Apparently the 30% vet is operating under the misguided notion that long yearlings can’t procreate. We do know that Techie is listed on their latest adoption event as a cryptorchid, and yes, crypts can reproduce. Then we read that one horse is standing in his pen weaving (Ryland?). I’ve had horses who weave when they are in stalls. Putting them in solitary confinement with no attention, exercise or companionship is not the way to manage that. They need room to move, friends and no stress, which is exactly the opposite of what goes on at HiCaliber. That’s not a happy horse. I guess we better confirm who it is and put him on the death watch because that’s getting close to `behavioral’ in the Manson book of horsemanship. Oh well, at least they attempted to crop most of the shit out of the pictures above. Sadly, that’s not always the case.
Here are some recent pics of the babies that were rescued from the dreaded Sushi pipeline along with a few others. As you can see, they are failing to thrive at the feed lot. It seems all babies that spend any amount of time at HiCaliber end up with those malnutrition bellies and ribs. The water looks fairly low in the one pic, but beyond that it seems they are all just living on hay alone which isn’t great for growing bodies. Poor little Hotshot looks like his belly is about to burst and the others are just pitiful. They shouldn’t have rough coats and no asses. Go over to Ann from Mea Ola’s Place’s post and see what her orphan filly looks like. That’s what a foal should look like. Every single one of these babies looks far worse than when it arrived. They need blood pulled and a proper worming program along with proper nutrition and I don’t mean Thrive.
The one thing about running a shell game is that you need shells. This presented a problem at The Manson Family Tuesday Griftathon this week. There was only one horse at auction and she was in good shape. However, this week featured yet another glorious return of Romney Faye Baker and she mind-melded with Manson to invent the notorious underground lactating mare match racing pipeline. They claimed this little mare was a famous ex match racer that was in foal and recently had a foal pulled off her. This meant she was in grave danger of being returned to match racing despite the fact she is 14 years old and leaking milk all over the place. This also meant they had to run the bid up to over $1000 to save her from continuing to be well cared for apparently. This was only after we were treated to Romney Faye crawling around in the chutes checking the mare’s legs for `dorsal stripes’ at the behest of Manson. Protip for Manson- just look up the meaning of words before you use them. The word `dorsal’ would be a great start.
Because one horse does not fill their weekly quota, Bubba Misner, playing the roll of `well-known flipper’, was quickly dispatched to dredge up something sad. The best he could do on short notice was a sweet old gray gelding that wasn’t all that sad and didn’t really motivate the village idiots to dig deep. Meanwhile Manson decided to wander the chutes and look animals in the eyes. What is it about her looking things in the eyes lately? I swear she’s feeding off their souls or something. Anyhow, despite the fact that she walks past them every time she goes to auction, has a fondness for junk food, AND likely had carne asada for dinner that night, Manson shed tears for food animals and waxed poetic about what a good life the auction pigs had before they went to auction. Then she bought three little steers to drag home and flip if they live. (I think we are supposed to forget that she doesn’t actually like cows and has claimed to be afraid of them in the past) This was all in addition to a trailer full of llamas for a private buyer. I fell in love with one of the llamas as it showed Romney Faye exactly what it thought of her and HiCaliber by repeatedly spitting at her. Good times! BTW, the lactating match racing mare turned out not to be in foal. Shocker, I know!
I don’t normally have a bunch to say about Angrid only because aside from being bitchy, she’s not all that interesting. She’s rarely at the ranch, but lately seems to be taking the point on social media. I’m not sure why that is, but she’s the queen of the latest Facebook closed group where HiCaliber pretends to answer questions from people who ask nicely. Despite her public protestations, Angrid has been actively hunting me for months and this blog has come up in the closed group quite a bit. I guess it has never occurred to her that there may be several moles and how inside they may or may not be. Maybe I’m my own mole. Maybe I’m Robyn. Maybe I’m one of Manson’s personalities. Maybe I’m psychic and me and my Magic 8 Ball are just plucking all this out of the air. You never know, but since HiCaliber doesn’t officially care, let’s carry on, shall we?
I’m not exactly sure why Angrid, on behalf of HiCaliber, feels that they don’t owe anybody an individual accounting of these horses. They are purchased with donated money and I think they do owe an individual accounting of these animals. Then you have this little lie Angrid told. I can’t speak to her motivations, but damn, why lie about something that doesn’t even really matter all that much? Yes, they recycle names. There is proof. None of these horses were official private buyer purchases. If she’s going to say Dawson Redux is a PB horse then why is she listed as for adoption on the website? Oh right, they don’t have time to keep up with that website. You can message the page and they may or may not answer you instead because they are not your bitches!
Does anybody remember that old adage about rats and sinking ships? HiCaliber seems to be bleeding board members lately. I know, I know, it’s not about that for Angrid. It’s about her ambition and I have to say I can’t blame her. Right now, having HiCaliber on your resume is not all that impressive. While we’re at it, I want Angrid who is officially not reading this blog, but actually is, to know that these screen shots didn’t come from the discussion group so there is no need to throw your toys out of the pram and storm off. She threatened to do that if they leaked news of her departure. These are screen shots from HiCaliber’s group instead so everything should be cool. I’m a giver that way.
Here’s a fun little shout out to this blog from Manson and Robyn the House Elf with a special cameo from one of their brilliant volunteers who doesn’t care if they shoot every horse on the place apparently. Manson lies out the lie hole trying to discredit the guest writers on this blog. You know, because everybody is wrong and Manson is right and because nothing is ever her fault. Nobody on this blog has ever made fun of Romney’s child. If anything people have been more than uncomfortable that she continues to use his death to gain sympathy and donations, including an open youcaring page that was donated to as recently as last week. (Don’t worry, I have screen shots if the link goes bad) Also, pointing out that you are too big to be on a horse is not body shaming. It’s facts. If you see me riding around on a Shetland pony, by all means tell me to get my fat ass off it. Common sense and horses first. All that aside, going through a tragedy doesn’t make somebody suddenly a saint. If you were a lying asshole before the tragedy, you are a lying asshole going through a tragedy, so come back down off that cross and start facing up to the mess that you have created, Manson. I’m pretty sure you’ve mixed up a lifetime of fame with notoriety.
Speaking of pants on fire, Manson went on yet another horse shuffling road trip a few days ago. This time it was to Buzz’s to pick up Seymour and April who are adoption returns. They were picked up further north and brought as far as Buzz’s for Manson to go fetch. I think we can all realize that life can throw wrenches and even appreciate that Seymour and April’s people did what they thought was best for these horses. Where my confusion is , is why Manson felt the need to announce their return and lie about the circumstances surrounding it. It gets a bit confusing, but I’ve known these horses needed to come back for a while now. Almost a month in fact. Manson knew too. I don’t know why it took so long for her to get them and it doesn’t matter. Maybe the former family had their board paid up til the end of the month. That wasn’t where the lie was. The lie came in on the whys of the return. You see, there is another HiCaliber horse out there that the adopter has been trying to return for a few months. She was told to place the horse herself and offered no help at all, BUT the reason for that horse needing to be returned all of a sudden became the reason Seymour and April were being returned in Manson’s version of events. Not true and to protect privacy, I wont get into the real reasons, but having a human baby is certainly not the reason Seymour and April came back. I’m confused why she even lied about this because it doesn’t matter, nobody cares and it makes her look bad. I’m also confused why the grand announcement of the return of these two horses other than Manson can’t wait to ride Seymour because she’s still to afraid to ride any of the five horses she owns that are currently living at HiCaliber. Even stranger is she didn’t feel the same need to announce Camilla’s return after less than two weeks in her adoptive home. That’s the thing with these adoption events. They throw up some big numbers initially but they don’t like to say how many come back. It seems like they have a revolving door on the place or something.
Since Manson says this blog has no credibility, let’s get her to back up her shit. These screen shots are from last week. They are all the intakes from 2016 and 2017 that are no longer alive. I’ve never once said they were all shot or all euthanized for no reason. Some died on their own, some were legitimate compassion pulls, but many were none of those things. If I’m lying about their status as far as living or dead, then by all means, point it out and prove me wrong. Show me the horses, but while you’re at it, better make sure to show me the latest three to join these lists. It would seem that Manson has worked out her angst by going on yet another killing spree and I gotta admit, I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around the latest ones. Remember in the screen shot up above how Angrid states that their website is run by volunteers and they don’t always have time to update it right away? You better believe they wasted no time erasing these next three horses off their website and no, Manson didn’t post tributes to them on their Facebook page either. It’s almost like they never happened. Well, not on my watch…
Comfort has reportedly left this earth in the last week or so. I don’t have confirmed details on the hows or whys other than she is gone. She was an owner relinquishment from back in early February of this year. This was a lovely mare that they were riding in parades this summer and as recently as August were advertising her for adoption. No tribute posts of sad goodbyes for Comfort though. RIP Comfort.
Journey reportedly left us this past week as well. I’m not sure if he was part of that horse shuffle that was going on after dark last weekend or what happened to him. I know at one point he was fostered by a person who lives near to where Manson was last week, but I can’t say with any certainty if she picked him up or what happened there. He is no longer on their website or fundraising pages. Rest easy, Journey.
Torrey is also no longer with us. She was only 4 years old and her Jockey Club name was Ide Like Orthodox. Her story is a little more filled in than the other two, having been one of the Louisiana horses. Being so young, Torrey’s tattoo was easily read so she got to at least get her identity back unlike the others from that clusterfuck who still haven’t been identified and likely never will be. In fact, Torrey’s previous owner contacted HiCaliber to tell them she had a chip in her knee and that she had been rehomed as a potential broodmare. Apparently, that didn’t work out too well for as she ended up on Doughboy’s lot. When you think about it, Torrey’s life from that point on, was really not much different from that of any horse in the slaughter pipeline other than her cross-country trip was in a nice van. She basically went from one feed lot to another, stood around with no shelter and often no water and died a premature death. Not sure if she went with a bullet or on her own but the end result was the same. RIP Ide Like Orthodox.
So here we come to the close of yet another blog and I’ll leave this little snack as a lagniappe for Manson because she gives us all so much to work with. In all honestly, I wish she’d give a little less. I know I sound like a broken record, but she can make this all go away. If any of what I said is wrong, then prove it. Don’t just deny it, PROVE IT. Prove these horses aren’t all dead. Prove that a vet signed off on every single one of them that didn’t die on their own. Prove that those aren’t enormous and ever-growing piles of shit surrounding those foals. These are NOT Manson’s personal horses and that ranch is not her personal space. It is part of a non-profit organization that is funded by donations and with that comes some accountability. I don’t want to hear that the troughs aren’t empty `for long’. They should NEVER be empty. If you have horses that are draining them, then get them a bigger trough or a second one. It’s just not that difficult. I would dearly love to put all this to rest and go back to pretending Manson and family don’t exist. The problem is I actually lose a lot of sleep at night over what is going on with the horses at HiCaliber. I can’t imagine lining them up and shooting them for no good reason. How do you look an animal in the eye and blow it away without that changing who you are for the worse? How do you do it once let alone an average of twice a week? You see, Manson has this ego thing going on that if she can’t get along with a horse then nobody can (look up HiCaliber Rux). Just like Manson and Romney Faye think they alone get to decide what a bad backyard is and the irony to that is that HiCaliber is a bad backyard right down to cryptorchid stallions in with mares and fillies. A huge part of the problem is that Manson won’t acknowledge she’s in over her head and that she really has no formal training in any of this. She’s not a horse person, she’s not a business woman. But rather than start yet another Facebook group where you try to bully people from speaking the truth, why not put that energy into fixing what you know is wrong? Why not just prove me wrong? #saytheirnames #showmethehorses