Happy New Year, everybody. Well, almost everybody. It looks like my plans to take a break over the holidays and come back all refreshed and less grumpy haven’t worked out, so there will be no happy wishes for those who shat upon that for me. *cough*mansonfamily*cough* I’m not sure what I was even thinking given the personalities involved. As if The Manson Family would take a week off to cool down the gun barrels and kick off their grifting shoes. Also, that last guest past on here stirred up a hornet’s next of righteous indignation spurred on by a flagrant lack of reading comprehension on top of their regular fuckery. Partially due to that and a few other things, my inbox has been bursting and because misery loves company, that means y’all are going to have a lot of reading to do today. We have some milk carton horses, we have some names to say and we have a lot of other things to cover along with some year-end numbers to ponder. With that being said, it’s that time when we grab our beverages of choice and make ourselves comfortable as we dissect the most recent activities from the high kill shelter masquerading as a rescue in Valley Center. Where the hell do I even begin with this mess?
I think I’ll start with Barbara. This poor mare. So young to be so broken and I agree, she needed to be let go. I don’t agree with the method and I certainly don’t agree with dragging her all the way back to HiCaliber to shoot her, but yes, she was suffering and Manson even admits that much. So, what’s the big deal? The big deal is Manson lying out her fucking lie hole once again. We’re supposed to praise her because she picked the mare up without fundraising. She tells us not to be angry with the person that turned her in because `they’ were trying to rescue and help her’. REALLY? What if I told you and PROVED to you the person that turned her in was the person that fucked this mare up and Manson was protecting him?
That’s right folks, Barbara was turned in by Manson’s favorite trainer, Andrew Fice. He got her back in November and, as you can clearly see from the videos, she was not emaciated and crippled back then. Her face wasn’t beat to hell either. You can tell from her round pen videos when Fice first got her, she is a bit tenderfooted, but certainly not a `Grade 5/5 lame’ as Manson assessed her before shooting her on Wednesday. The first video is pretty tough to watch with her saddle slid back over her loins as Fice snaps a whip and waves it in her face telling her to `turn in’. Sadly, this wasn’t going to be the worst day she had at Fice’s. Her first ride video is relatively uneventful and the mare seems forgiving of him, if anything. I can’t say what happened after these videos and we’ll never know because Manson will protect Fice at all costs. Both of them, Manson and Fice, will just blame the animal anyhow. I have to wonder how many other horses this asshole has crunched and maimed that we don’t know about. We know Saban returned from Fice’s with a head injury that nearly cost him his life. We know Mercy came back blinded in one eye with her head all beat to hell too. How many of these owner surrenders come from people she protects just like Fice? At this point, I don’t even know why Manson bothers to lie about these horses. The truth is ALWAYS easy enough to find out. Meanwhile, HiCaliber Dylan and Rojas remain with Fice, their trainer and approved adopter. Rest Easy Barbara. #sayhername
Bellona was brought in with Barbara on Wednesday night. Guess who lives right by Andrew Fice? Salvador Paniagua, their flipper/tripper buddy. I’m not even going to argue that this mare needed to be put to sleep. I don’t know why she needed dragged all the way back to HiCaliber to get shot in the face though. Both these mares were made to suffer even more by having to haul over an hour back to HiCaliber to meet their endings. It’s not like they hadn’t suffered enough already. Why drag them, in pain, over winding roads to make them stand in an unfamiliar place surrounded by unfamiliar people only to get shot? It’s also not like Salvador isn’t the fuckface that did this to Bellona. Her injuries are consistent with having been tripped and Salvador is the guy that supplies the horses for those types of events. Before The Manson Family decided to play footsie with him, (remember when they used to refer to him as the worst of the worst?), he had no place to get rid of these animals other than turn them loose in the desert or dump them off somewhere in the middle of the night. Now, thanks to Manson and her village idiots, he not only has a convenient dumping spot, they pay him to clean up his mess so he can go buy even more horses to maim and abuse! Manson goes on these long rants about why people are angry at her for putting these horses down and we’re all haters who won’t do the hard things. That’s not it at all. Advocates KNOW these horses are out there and we agree they need humane endings. The real issue true rescuers and advocates have with this type of thing is not only is HiCaliber doing NOTHING to end this type of abuse, they are actively protecting and shielding the people who are doing this to these animals. They are making the problem even worse than it already is. Then, to top things off, they don’t go out relieve her suffering right away, they drag her home, parade her around and makes some coin off her for `responsible rescue’ fees that she’s never going to need. I doubt this mare even had an xray and Manson can google and misuse all the terminology she wants, nobody is arguing this mare was jacked up badly. The irony did not go unnoticed that Romney Faye names her after the goddess of war because this is the year they are going to `fight back’ and then Manson promptly shoots the horse in the face. RIP Bellona #sayhername
Before we move on to saying some other names, this little clip of Romney Faye from auction last week brings up a huge issue I have with their brand of `rescue’. Yes, she talks about their close working relationship with the flippers. Blah blah blah. We’ve heard that all before, but this was made a week ago and she’s talking about Salvador, who had Bellona. I believe the other horses she is referring to are Crackers and Salami who we’ll deal with another day. Romney Faye knew about Bellona a week before and let her sit and suffer until they could hit the village idiots up for money at a more advantageous time. It’s not the first time this has happened either. Back when they were dragging all those horses out of Louisiana, they let a horribly crippled mare wait a week because they were too busy to do the right thing. You can see a video clip of her, along with the screen shots, where they admit they waited for a more convenient time on this post. Funny how Manson always neglects to mention things like this when she goes on her blame the hater rants. I guess that would be a bit too close to owning her own evil or something. Let’s get back to saying a few more names.
Dano was a 4 or 5 year old stud they bought at auction just after Christmas. His freedom walk was pretty much all we ever saw of him. He was acting a bit studish, so they kinda abbreviated the festivities with him although he seemed to walk ok out to the trailer. Sadly, the next we heard about him was Manson casually mentioning at the end of a live feed on the 1st that he had `severe wobblers’ and was so bad the vet didnt’ want people around him so she shot him. Just like that. Even though he stepped up in the trailer with minimal issues, seemed in good weight, he wasn’t worth further diagnostics. I can’t even say with complete confidence a real vet saw this horse in person. Manson often likes to text pics or clips to vets and count that as being seen by a vet. At any rate, this handsome young horse is no more. RIP Dano. #sayhisname
I know pretty much anybody that is following this shit show knows that Kadyn died last week as well. Still, I believe in not letting their passings go unnoticed so we’ll acknowledge her all too brief life here. She was bought at auction the week before Christmas and died of a twisted gut on December 26th. There is no telling how long she was hurting or what actually happened. She was just one of a few that died at SLREH in the past two weeks. RIP Kadyn, I’m sorry you didn’t land softly. #sayhername
Nala also lost her life within the last week. This one hurt a lot of people because there were at least two good and solid, non hater (at the time) adoption offers rejected on this mare in recent months. Despite what she says to gain sympathy, Manson didn’t really care for this mare as she was a complicated sort and had been returned from adoptions a few times in the past. Nala was also one of the original sick horses during the whole Del Mar drama. Even back then she was reported to have a snotty nose and swelling under her jaw, although no temperature. As recently as Christmas Eve, Nala was still sick and not eating. I should probably make note that the picture of her was from happier days with her foster and not representative of what she looked like in her final days at HiCaliber. Manson wants to twist some five dollar words around to lead the village idiots to believe that Nala had a `tumor’ and that’s what has been her problem all along. What most horse people will realize from the words from the information given is that Nala likely died from a ruptured abscess that sounds a whole bunch like bastardized strangles. I can’t say for sure without seeing a culture report from it and I’m guessing we never will. I’m also going to hazard a guess we haven’t heard the last of this situation. RIP Beautiful Nala. #sayhername
Mr. Handsome also took a bullet to the brain this past week. He was purchased in the parking lot at auction just last week. Likely another Salvador horse. Romney Faye immediately diagnosed him as `neuro’ and labelled him a compassion pull. He certainly wasn’t a sound horse, but it seems that gaited almost always = neuro in HiCaliber world. He was drug back to the feed lot and kept alive for a few days. No word on if he ever actually saw a real vet and we know that Manson has often stated she doesn’t waste wormers or vaccinations on horses she plans to shoot. She also has stated she doesn’t need a vet to sign off on a horse in order to shoot it, so I guess I’m not really sure what part of any of this was rescue for Mr. Handsome. RIP sweet boy. #sayhisname
*LANGUAGE WARNING FOR VIDEO*
Major was another one Manson killed over the past week. It’s not really groundbreaking news that she did because she’s had an itchy trigger finger when it came to Major for a long time. I can’t say with any confidence why this horse was killed. I’ve never seen a video of him walking nor have I ever seen them post a vet report on him. I know they never raised a lot, if any, money to take him in early last year. He was part of the whole Skittles the pony drama and Manson always seemed kinda pissed to be stuck with him. His rather foul-mouthed intake video is up above here. What really pisses me off about this situation with Major is that he was offered a few good homes recently, but because Manson branded those people as haters, she shot the horse instead. Let that sink in. She would rather shoot a perfectly healthy animal in the face than allow somebody she doesn’t like to help that horse. It’s things like this that make people call her Manson. RIP Major, we tried. #sayhisname
I don’t know off the top of my head which horse this person is referring to. Obviously, yet another one who died from one of these mysterious abscesses that they claim have nothing to do with strangles. I’m a bit concerned that so much diagnostics are being over the phone and that for some reason vets can’t get to HiCaliber on an emergency call hardly ever. What’s up with that? As far as which horse they are talking about, I will do my best to fine out who she was and we will say her name too, if we haven’t already.
I have to admit this question has crossed my mind too. It does seem like the more humane choice to let these horses go in familiar surroundings. Manson likes to tell us that dead is dead but I guess that only applies when she wants to chop a body up or sell off their organs. She flat-out lies in her answer. You don’t have to `contract with a vet’ to get them to come euthanize a horse. I know this for an absolute fact. What does she think people that make their living traveling with horses do? Does she think that they have contracts with vets in every city? No. If they have an emergency, they call a vet that is local and that vet will come. A farm call doesn’t cost any more or less if you call the nearest vet. The real reason, besides the fact she seems to actually get off on shooting horses in the face, is that perhaps a lot of the horses she kills would not be signed off on by a real vet. Bullshit on owners not being able to handle it. She makes more money off these horses by dragging them home and parading them around on live feed for donations than if she just quietly did the true compassionate thing for them.
Now that we’ve dealt with the known dead, it’s time to move onto the unknown. Our milk carton horses. I’m not reporting them as dead, I’m asking wtf they are since they seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Teeka is the first one we’ll talk about. She is a young horse purchased at auction back in May. She went to foster fairly early on and seemed to be doing well. She was advertised for sale/adoption and, from what I’m told, she was eventually adopted. That’s where things seemed to have gone sideways for Teeka. She was returned after only a week or so with reported hind end lameness and ringbone. That wasn’t all that long ago and she has since gone MIA. So, knowing how many village idiots, volunteers and insiders read here without admitting it, I’m putting this out there because I keep getting emails asking where this horse is. Where is she? Go ahead and twist this to suit any agenda you would like, let’s just hear where the mare is. Good news is always welcome.
Diane is also MIA from the ranch. She was parking lot purchase back in November and named after the donor’s deceased family member or something. Diane the horse was never really as mentioned much again after her intake. This is one of the issues I have with the village idiots. Once the thrill of the save is over, these horses are out of sight, out of mind for most of them. Diane is a younger mare and Manson did mention she was `sassy’ and that she had `conformational defects’ in her intake video. She has not been mentioned since that intake video and there are no reports of her being seen around the ranch since about mid to end of December. If anybody knows where this mare is or what became of her, please let me know. Many people are asking and since she was paid for by donated funds, people do have a right to know where she is.
This has been a whole bunch to digest so far, no? I actually considered cutting this post off right here and just let this all marinate with people, but at the rate things pile up, it’s probably not the best idea. Sadly, we have a few other things to deal with as far as what passes for horse husbandry at the HiCaliber feed lot. It’s probably more accurate to call it anti-husbandry really. It’s all related to why animals are not doing well and I also think it’s worthwhile for people to know the current conditions at the `ranch’. With Romney Faye threatening to lay the smack down on all the haters, `HiCaliber Style’, I figured I’ll lay the truth on everybody `Shedrow Style’. How ’bout ‘dat? If anything, it might add some context as to why horses are dropping like flies and going missing back at HiCaliber.
Bambi was recently adopted from HiCaliber. That’s awesome news. He has also been renamed Jack, which should clear up the gender identity issues for him as well. Bambi was one of the Louisiana horses and arrived with a severely damaged eye which needed to be removed. It seems that the wound care for that wasn’t the best as he’s still having issues and packing an infection. The other interesting news is that Bambi has a microchip. Does anybody else remembering somebody from HiCaliber claiming they had a scanner and checked all their horses? Yeah…
Remember Astro? Astro, the perlino PSSM stud that Manson used for ball cupping demonstrations at their last open house? He was gelded shortly after that open house and recently he’s been adopted. I’m told he showed up at his new home with overgrown hooves and still in need of some wound care from his recent gelding. The pictures above were from Del Mar and I do recall them mentioning on one of their live feeds that his wound was `not happy’. I think that means they couldn’t be arsed to take proper care of it in HiCaliberspeak. Thankfully, Astro is in good hands now and hopefully the next updates we get on him will be happier ones.
Another longtime HiCaliber resident turns up with a snotty nose. This time he took his snotty nose to a new home where quarantine isn’t possible. Awesome! I do wish his new home well and hopefully he isn’t carrying something nasty. Kinda irresponsible of HiCaliber to let him go like that though.
We have another update from the sushi foals that made it off the feed lot. I realize that their new family seem to be new to horse ownership, but it seems they are really trying to do right by these babies. What does stand out for me, besides the ongoing wormy bellies (remember what the sushi foals still at HiCaliber look like?) is their issue with ongoing snotty noses and Manson advising them to go through her to acquire meds rather than their own vet. Besides the fact this is flat-out illegal, this is probably a big part of why she’s got horses dropping dead of things they shouldn’t be back at the ranch. Antibiotics are not one size fits all and they also aren’t always something you should even be giving an animal. She just about killed Breezy by giving him the wrong drugs when she misdiagnosed what was wrong with him, we have Nala dying from what appears to be bastardized strangles, Clare having a pneumonia when she was put down (that’s what Breezy had after his misdiagnosis) and now she’s trying to talk these first time horse owners into just getting more drugs from her rather than perhaps looking into the reason why they can’t get the snots cleared up with these foals.
Remember when Renee was trying out Terney ? One of the things we talked about, besides her flopping around, was the ill fitting tack she was using on him. You can refresh your memory here. Well, it seems despite being indignant that haters pointed out that situation, she went ahead and kept riding him with shitty fitting tack and a dirty girth and sored him up that he’s on the shelf while he heals. That’s only the 2nd worst thing she’s done to him since adopting as she’s also changed his name to `Vinur’ (Icelandic for `buddy’) which doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. As a result, she’s back to riding Danny. Now that Danny is adopted by her mother and out from under Manson’s rules, Rene seems to have abandoned riding with a rope halter and completed the ill fitting tack daily double with an ill fitting bridle. At least she’s consistent.
These pictures have all been taken around the feed lot in the past week. I decided to put them up so people will understand when they eventually have a run on bowed tendons and have to start shooting horses. One of the horses shown is already on thin ice. That would be Bev still sporting that back wrap. You do NOT use vetwrap, coflex or whatever it is she’s using on these horses like this. It’s not meant to be used like this and without cottons, and for these assholes I strongly suggest no bows, you are running a huge risk of tendon damage. That’s even if you were wrapping properly which they are not. You don’t just cut off mid tendon or above the ankle. The bottom pick you can clearly see the swelling above and below the filthy wrap. This kinda thing usually ends up doing far more harm than good.
Brady was one of the surviving horses from Salvador’s trailer back in early October. He was wedged in there with 3 others and at least two of those were hauled off and shot immediately. Brady got lucky to dodge the bullet that day but certainly hasn’t been too lucky since. The top pic was from back in October and the bottom one is from this week. Besides all the scrapes from obviously fighting for food, he’s starting to drop weight and clearly has an untreated wound on his hock, or back knee in HiCaliberspeak. I have a feeling that people should start making a habit of asking after Brady or he’ll be joining Horton, Daphne and Baldwin on the about to be shot list.
I think we’ll wrap up today with some year end numbers. The `pending’ part are horses awaiting adoption, euthanasia or whatever. That includes horses at foster. Basically all horses still under the HiCaliber banner are `pending’. Manson likes to throw a lot of numbers out there but these are the actual numbers according to what they, themselves, have put out there. They killed more horses than they adopted out last year. Period. They killed at a better than 20% rate. 4 days into this year and she’s already killed more horses than there have been days. I understand that some horses needed to be put down. I wish they’d have had a softer end than having Manson’s mug as the last one they saw. There’s no empathy or compassion there. Then there are the Avianas and the Willows. Horses that were shot because they had the misfortune of ending up with people that didn’t have the skill set to deal with them. When you have a horse that is hard to handle, you work with it. You don’t shoot it in the face as punishment for your own shortcomings. There will never be a shortage of horses needing rescue so if you can’t deal with high-strung horses, don’t rescue high strung horses. Don’t like bays? Don’t rescue them. I’d suggest that Manson sticks to what she’s good at, but Blankround has already kinda cornered the market on stick horse and Breyer rescues so I’ll suggest she find another industry to infest. I sense a change in the air this past week or so though. Horse people, the real ones, are angrier than usual about his situation at HiCaliber. I think people are finally getting it. Perhaps that’s the upside to all this downside. Maybe things have finally gotten bad enough that people are ready to stand up and speak out. Maybe we have finally reached critical mass.
Regarding the charitable registration, I can check that in my free time. I know that they are not registered to solicit in the state of Florida.
https://csapp.800helpfla.com/CSPublicApp/CheckACharity/CheckACharity.aspx
ROFL! I love you being helpful like that, as well!
I agree with the clueless part as my friend was, too–under the name of the founder as well as the org. I didn’t fill her in as to their association with hiC, though–my only question was regarding the “reaching out,” part of the comment. If she had replied in the affirmative, I might have continued the conversation.
We may very well indeed have the same acquaintance, although she might well have told one or the both of us that she had received the same question from someone else!
Hey Manson,
Since you lay your Make up on with a trowel here’s a YouTube tip for you.
Tu mets du rouge à lèvres sur un cochon, c’est toujours un cochon
LMAO!!!!
Oh Geez.
c’est la vérité
Mot
I love Google. 😍
Someone got this in on HC’s page. I wonder how long it will be there…
Hating is when you allow a person to literally beat horses to death. How can you defend your employee Andrew Fice? RIP Barbara and all the others he tortured, beat, and emotionally tortured like Saben.
The sick mentality of the VI is that of hoarder by proxy. They really seem to prefer the horses that are CP’s right from the start. This way they can continue their shopping spree because an actual spot hasn’t been taken up back at the ranch and there won’t be any long term care expenses to worry about. A CP from the very start or shortly there after also provides closure to the story of that horse so they can feel like it’s a job well done. Weren’t they just the fucking angel of mercy. The VI’s aren’t capable of seeing the condition of the horses suffering at the ranch or the over crowding. All they care about is getting horses away from other people and under their/HC control or if they have to relent – the control of an HC approved person or entity.
Damn, I love this blogger! Shedrow is gutsy as hell. I love how you refuse to back down and your dedication to the cause. Please provide me with the paypal address of your favorite, REAL horse rescue group because I want to send them $50.00 in the name of your blog to show my appreciation for your hard work and dedication in shedding light on these piece of shits!
Thank you. Sadly, due to the targetting and bullying that HiCaliber engages in, I don’t openly endorse rescues on the blog just to save them the grief. If you would like to email me, I’d be happy to give you a list of some that have taken in HiCaliber horses from their euth lists and you can choose from there. Thank you 🙂
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Hopefully a full investigation will occur and the truth will out and the greed you claim is the motivation of this rescue will be proven. I personally find a well aimed shot to the head by a high caliber bullet is kinder, quicker and less painful than the heart attack method administered by the vets medicine.
We can agree to disagree, but the method of euthanasia is not the issue here other than their shots aren’t always well aimed or clean from what eye witnesses have told us. Nor are all the horses shot unable to be rehabbed.
It is not about the method (other than the fact that her true reason for it is financial)
It’s about the motivation
I definitely agree Shed, it’s also that she makes the decision to euthanize all on her own. Where’s the vet recommendation? Where’s the exrays? Where’s the blood work? If you have nothing to hide why are you hiding it ?
One big thing I would like to say here is I don’t for a minute believe anyone here is anti euthanasia! It is one of the kindness things you can do for any animal when it is their time. Not when you need the responsible rescue funds to pay your bills. That’s when you need to find a real job!
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What the f@#$ happened to the grey mare? Wasn’t she ok before she went the that trainer? What happened to her legs!!!
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