Five horses were found starved and abandoned in one day in Miami-Dade County, including four the C-9 Basin, once considered the heart of South Florida’s illegal horse meat industry, according to a prominent animal activist.
Natalie Fawkes, a members of Florida TRAC, a care program for horses, tend to an abandoned, emaciated former race horse found in Northwest Miami-Dade. Joe Rimkus Jr. / Miami Herald Staff
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
Four horses, including three thoroughbreds, were found neglected and emaciated this week in Northwest Miami-Dade County’s C9 Basin, an area notorious for the illegal slaughter and selling of horse meat.
“There were tires, toxic waste and four horses,” said Richard Couto, an animal rights activist who investigates illegal horse slaughter. “The horses were feeding off of whatever they could feed on.”
The animals – three thoroughbreds and one American quarter horse – were found Wednesday near Northwest 178th Street and 134th Avenue, in a field that looked like a dumping area, said Couto, whose organization is called Animal Recovery Mission
Couto said he immediately called police and the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Miami-Dade police confirmed Thursday that they responded to the area in response to a report of skinny horses.
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