RESCUE OF MONTANA

MAY 2010

TODAY A POLICE OFFICER OF THE 10TH PRECINCT IN PARANA WAS ON HIS WAY TO WORK WHEN HE SPOTTED TWO YOUNG TEENAGERS BEATING A HORSE WITH WHIPS AND CHAINS...HE FOLLOWED THEM UNTIL THEY WERE IN HIS JURISDICTION AND ARRESTED THEM...THEY WERE TAKEN TO THE PRECINCT AND WERE LECTURED ABOUT ANIMAL CRUELTY.

ALL OF THE POLICE OFFICERS TOOK A VOTE AND NAMED THEIR RESCUE: MONTANA.

WHEN THE BOY'S PARENTS ARRIVED AT THE STATION WITH A LAWYER TO GET THEIR HORSE BACK, THEY SAW COQUI AND KNEW THEY DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE...THE BOYS ARE JUVENILES, SO THEY WEREN'T CHARGED, BUT THE MOTHER WAS...SHE WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO PAY A LARGE FINE.

N/B  THESE TWO BOYS ARE THE SAME WHO OWNED BENJIE...SADLY WE GOT BENJIE TOO LATE.

MONTANA'S LEFT EYE IS MISSING...IT WAS DAMAGED WHEN THE BOYS BEAT HER WITH A CHAIN.

MONTANA ENJOYING HER FIRST DAY OF FREEDOM...SHE'S BEEN EATING NON-STOP SINCE SHE ARRIVED AT THE PRECINCT

IT CAN BE SEEN QUITE CLEARLY THE BRAND ON HER LEFT REAR LEG AND ON THE TOP OR HER LEG SHE HAS A WOUND THAT COULD HAVE BECOME EASILY INFECTED.

FROM ALL THE PULLING OF HEAVY LOADS,  HER BACK LEGS ARE VERY BADLY SWOLLEN...ANTIBIOTICS AND MASSAGE WILL HELP GET THE LEGS BACK TO NORMAL SIZE.

ONCE AGAIN WE WANT TO THANK THE WONDERFUL OFFICERS OF THE PARANA POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR UNYIELDING ASSISTANCE IN OUR EFFORTS TO SAVE THESE ABUSED HORSES...THANK YOU GENTLEMEN; YOU ARE OUR HEROES.

JUNE 25/2010

YESTERDAY MONTANA COLLAPSED AND ALTHOUGH WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD, THE VET PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD THIS AFTERNOON JUST AFTER 1:00 P.M. ...ONCE AGAIN, WE GOT ONE OF THESE POOR CREATURES TOO LATE...DEAR MONTANA HAD ONLY ONE MONTH OF BLISSFUL FREEDOM...MONTANA WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO CARED FOR HIM.