Rolling Dog Farm Blog

The Deputy County Attorney for Cascade County in Montana — Great Falls is the county seat — called today to see if we could take a blind horse caught up in a large-scale animal cruelty case.  A couple has nearly 140 dogs, 17 cats, 17 horses, and other animals.  Many of the dogs apparently are pretty much running free in large packs on the property.  The blind horse is penned in an enclosure fenced with barbed wire … which is of course the wrong fencing for a blind horse.

We agreed to take the blind horse, but we may not be able to go and pick it up until after their trial on Nov. 23.  We also offered to help if they found any of the other animals were disabled.

You can read an article on the case in today’s Great Falls Tribune here.

For an earlier article from the Tribune with more details about the animals’ living conditions, go here.

This case has been going on for months, as you’ll see from the articles.

A few years ago a court in Ravalli County (in the Bitterroot Valley) asked us to take a horse from an animal neglect case while the defendant went through the judicial process.  We picked up the horse in January that year, the trial was in July, the owner was convicted, then appealed, and by the time a plea-bargain was reached and the court gave us custody of the horse, it was December.  The horse, a sighted Paint mare named Patches, is still here at the ranch today.  She’s a sweet, loving girl who can’t be ridden because of a lameness issue, so she’s your classic ‘pasture ornament.’  She’s also a flirt with visitors.