AR-News: (AU) Man arrested for animal cruelty

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

FLORALA - A Florala man was arrested Tuesday after an investigator with the 
Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries found an abandoned blind horse 
that was smuggled into the state from Florida.
According to Tim Forehand, an agriculture investigator, the horse was brought 
into Alabama without any health papers. State law requires horse owners to 
have papers with up-to-date registration of shots as a preventative of outbreaks 
of known diseases. In particular, the EEE virus, carried by mosquitoes, is 
deadly and can be spread to horses.
An investigation revealed the horse was "left to roam free," according to 
Forehand.
Millard Perdue, 34, was arrested and held at the Covington County Jail for 
abandoning the horse without food or water - classified as cruelty to animals - 
as well as allowing the animal to run at large and failure to provide health 
papers.




full story:
http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/articles/2004/02/11/news/news02121.txt 

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not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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