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Taken from The Independent.

40 dead animals found in stable horror
By Rod Minchin, PA
06 June 2005


RSPCA inspectors were today investigating the discovery of nearly 40 dead animals in a stable.

They found the remains of at least 19 horses, 11 chickens, three dogs and a rabbit in the stables in Trimdon, County Durham. The figure is expected to rise.

Three dogs - a rottweiler and two border collies - were found alive. It is believed they survived by feeding off other animals or tearing open bags of dog food left there.

The RSPCA said the death toll was likely to rise as investigators continued their work to piece together exactly what happened at Bank Top Stables.

The animal welfare charity was alerted on Bank Holiday Sunday after a member of the public saw a dog wandering and became concerned for its welfare - but had not seen inside the stable.

Inspector Mark Gent, who found the harrowing scene, told BBC Radio Newcastle: "When I got there, I smelt a terrible smell and knew there was something wrong and phoned the local police who attended and we broke in and found quite a shocking sight.

"I have smelt it before, sadly, but you know that smell and I knew instinctively there was something wrong.

"I have never seen anything on this scale before."

An RSPCA spokeswoman said the society was still trying to locate the owner of the stables, who has not been seen for some time.

She told the Press Association: "We found between 36 to 38 dead animals but that is a conservative estimate.

"We cannot really say exactly how many animals will be there until we have finished our investigations."

She said that RSPCA inspectors had acted with great professionalism despite the harrowing discovery at the stables.

"It is very upsetting and incredibly distressing for all the officers involved. It is one of those incidents that you have to get your head down and get on with it."

Tests are being carried out on the animals' remains to establish how long they had been there and the cause of death.


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Time and time again this sort of thing crops up, but never on this scale. It's so sad.
The BBC website has a video report on this story.
 
I read this too, Dim, and was really choked. It makes you wonder where the bloke (supposedly a young man from Middlesborough) is who owned them - quite possibly his welfare may be in doubt as it is unthinkable that he could allow 19 horses to starve, let alone the rest of them.
 
Sickening. Would have thought that if someone so young (under 30 or however old he is) was keeping a large number of animals on one property more checks would have been made.
 
I saw this story in a news report the other night - even with the bodies taken away it was sickening to see the remnants left behind; it turned my stomach.
 
Tom, we all have a choice here. I watched your video link. I made myself watch it to be honest, I didn't want to, and now I wish I hadn't. Consumers need to be educated about the meat they buy. If you choose to eat meat, then spend a few extra pennies on the right sort. I wonder how many shoppers contemplate on why the chicken portions they have just put into their basket is so cheap.
Consumers are the only ones who can change this factory process. They have to say NO to the factory farming.
The story I put up, may not seem any different to you. It's a sad case. I don't understand how something like that happened in such a public place.
 
I was getting at anyone in particular Dimminuendo. Fair play to you for watching the video, not many will bother their arse.
 
Why would we, HT? You've already called we who are omnivores 'scum', making your opinion of us abundantly clear. Bookies are bastards, non-vegetarians are scum, hunt supporters are shite. I respect your feelings and opinions, even as someone who you regard as scum, but as you do, I can't see the point in responding.
 
I watched it too, Tom but to lump all animals raised for meat under that banner is as full of inaccuracy as saying the entire police force is rascist or all women are feminists - it's just being immflamatory for the sake of it.

And one point about that video - the footage is Amercian and their welfare stadards are not the same as ours.

Of course all factory farming should be banned - intensive rearing of any animal or bird is offensive and we'd all do better to stop looking for cheap food and make sure that any meat we buy has been properly produced to high standards.

I do in fact only buy meat that I know has been well-reared - whether it's pork, beef, chicken or lamb. In fact, I don't eat that much meat these days because I'd sooner spend a bit more on knowing where it came from and have less of it.
 
I don't doubt it contains the worst of the worst Julie but I suspect they wouldn't have to look too hard. Nor would they in this country.

Kri, the last time I asked you, you were unable to cut and paste from where I supposedly wrote that. Have you now found it?
 
I can't cut and paste, full stop, HT. But I have tracked down your posts in your Profile to remind you:

Feb 19 07:24 pm "The human race deserves apocalypse."

Feb 20 01.31 am

March 2 06:56 pm

March 2 10.56 pm (you're referring to the very phrases we're referring to now)

March 4 03.13 one aimed at Julie (as usual)

But since just 'the human race deserves apocalypse' I'm not worried about such an intervention, as being scum I'll just keep floating and survive nicely.
 
Nope, still can't see it anywhere Kri, apart from the post where I call everybody, including myself, scum.

I think maybe you're getting confused with the thread where you said you were going on holiday and I asked you to bring me back some drum, which is a Dutch hand rolling tobacco.
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Yeah... you deleted something in deference to the Board's ideas on personal insults, have your forgotten? But the past is the past and immutable, Grasshopper, and only the future can be changed.

I could certainly bring you some baccy back from Amsterdam, but I doubt I'd bother with anything as ordinary as Drum. B)
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 9 2005, 12:17 PM
Yeah... you deleted something in deference to the Board's ideas on personal insults, have your forgotten?
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Not me Kri. I didn't get where I am today by deleting personal insults. Are you sure you're not confusing me with 'Arthur the editor'?
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I assure you, I could never, ever confuse you with anyone else, let alone Ardross, HT. But perhaps your specific scumshite posting was delicately plucked by him, leaving only gleaming pearls among the flotsam of that particular debate.

So that just leaves me as part of the vast global community of omnivorous human scum deserving the apocalypse. I'm glad I escaped being called shite as well - that would've been a bit OTT.
 
I wouldn't worry too much Kri - you can imagine whereabouts in dear Tom's affection I stand as an omnivore, pro-foxhunting employee of a bookmaker!! ;) :lol:
 
(Said with cotton wool in mouth) "Are you 3 disrespecting me?".
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Kri, I assure you it's a figment of your imagination. When that argument was going on I asked you several times (in particular after you decided to send me to Coventry) to point out where I called you scum and you were unable to do so.
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Jun 9 2005, 02:40 PM
Tom, how could I disrespect you?! :lol: Particularly when you share the opinion that arbers are filthy.... :D
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(Said with cotton wool in mouth) "Some day I'll ask you to do me a favour Dominique".
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HT: I've just bleedin' answered you - you distinctly called all meat-eaters scum, you called Julie and Dom shite because Julie raises cattle for beef, and Dom supports hunting. Just because your posting conveniently disappeared after I took umbrage with your personally-aimed insults doesn't mean you didn't post it. Look up your own posts, you lazy sod, and you'll find the one where I took you to task for it. Believe me, I didn't conjure it, because up until then I'd (misguidedly) not realized what a fanatic you are.

Look, you can go on and on about 'show me the posts' - why don't you look over your own rantings, and if Ardross removed the offensive one, then ask him to find it and put it back for you.

Not that it matters, because - as you yourself have asserted in these posts - you don't care what you said. So why keep going on about it? We know what you think of everyone in the whole world - in fact, as I trawled through your posts, I couldn't find a single one where you said anything even mildly complimentary about anyone, anywhere. Everything is whinge, whine, whinge, moan, bloody whinge. Why your wife hasn't baseball-batted you as you sleep, I don't know.
 
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