GOSHEN – A Goshen woman
has been charged with cruelty to animals and failure to properly dispose
of dead animals.
Following an investigation and armed with a search warrant, investigators
from the Law Enforcement Division of the Hudson Valley SPCA along with
Goshen Town Police and Catskill Veterinary Services arrested Jeanne Ryan
of 132 Gate Schoolhouse Road and seized a badly neglected and emaciated
stallion in a stall without food or water. The animal chewed on the wood
in the stall for lack of anything else to each.
The horse was left standing in feces with split, infected overgrown hooves.
Authorities also discovered the carcasses of four dead adult horsed in
adjacent stalls together with a dead foal. Head of the SPCA Law Enforcement
Division Gene Hecht said the horses “presumably starved to death.”
The carcasses were found in a state of severe decomposition.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call the Hudson Valley
SPCA Law Enforcement Division at 855-448-2548.
