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Article: Men charged for animal cruelty: ; Officers found nine horses in field without proper food, water
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 20, 2009
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Two Jackson County men have been charged with animal cruelty
after humane officers discovered nine horses in a field without
proper food or water.
Sgt. J.F. Bare of the Jackson County Sheriff's Department filed
the criminal complaint against Josh Butcher of Ravenswood and Eddie
Jones of Fairplain after finding the horses in a meadow at Jones'
Shinn Lane residence.
According to the complaint, filed Aug. 11, sheriff's deputies and
humane officers had visited the property in May and again in July.
In May, Bare and Humane Officer Cindy Katris observed that the
horses had no food or water. Their necks were thin and ribs on seven
of the horses were very noticeable, they reported.
"The hip bones ...