Slaughter is still an option... they travel from PA to Canada to be slaughtered for human consumption by the hundreds, yet neglect and abuse still happen.  People who support slaughter make statements that abuse and neglect happen because the slaughter plants in the US have closed... They aren't related and you cannot slaughter a skinny horse anywhere US or Canada. 

 

Remember Ellie?  The pony that was sent to a slaughter pen?  She was too skinny to send to slaughter so they were going to have her shot.  Pictures from the holding farm below.  She couldn't be sent to slaughter because she was too thin... at least the owner didn't get paid to neglect her. 

AC4H brought her home with help from Judith.  She has seen a certified dentist who said she doesn't have back teeth to chew hay and you can see her front teeth are nubs.  A nutritionalist analyzed her needs.  She was so far gone, so starved that it was imperative to get her the help she needed immediately.   There is no reason for her to be in this condition.  My youngest daughter has a retired pony that has no back teeth and she is a jelly belly - because she is properly fed.  

       No teeth... she literally starved because she couldn't chew what was fed to her?  Wrong the girl can eat hay - grain and hay cubes :>) She was just starved.

 Sadie the buckskin, my youngest daughter's retired pony with no back teeth is in the back ground left side of this picture you can see the difference.

 

 

 She is a Gentle babysitter type of pony mare as you can see here as she is getting attention from Elli and being hand walked for some slow exercise.

Elli's channel 69 debut :>) no more skinny pony! 03-11-08

Elli is now fit and happy....

video of Elli driving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ4hiH7Q6_w

  5-31-09 - a little over 2 years after she was saved Ellie takes 1st place with Kate at her first driving show.  The judge said "Nice Pony!"

Ellie suffered a stroke the winter of 2010 she is retired and a permanent at AC4H

If you would like to help this little girl and others like her with a life saving donation, please consider a tax deductible donation.  donation or payment options or direct link http://www.ac4h.com/dpoptions.htm.