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Judge Joseph Filip to retain ownership rights to the horses. The
Civil Forfeiture Statute provides for 72 hours to come up with this to
retain ownership pending outcome of the Criminal trial.
Judge Filip ruled that $134,000.00 was an amount due
for "reasonable costs associated with care of the impounded animals".
The bond money encompasses the Past expenses of AC for
$77,342.20 in addition to the $22,031.00 per month pending outcome of
Criminal Trial. This figure also includes $2500/month for security
costs. Judge Filip stated that the government is now running the
property and it costs more for that to happen, so security is necessary.
This is the PROPOSAL for the care of the horses from
July 20,2007 through the end of the Criminal Trial (approximately 90
days). The $22,031.00 is the ESTIMATED MONTHLY EXPENSES of
feed and help.
The prosecution's request includes approximately
192,000 pounds of hay per month. This is averaging round bales
at 1000 pounds each. The American Association of Equine
Practitioners (Veterinarians) recommends a MAXIMUM of 2.5% of body
weight in roughage. At the HIGH end of AAEP's recommendations
these horses would need 51,750 pounds of hay per month!
This amount of hay would feed over 200 1000 pound horses every
month. Where is the rest going?
A few items of interest
Leelanau Horse Rescue has NEVER
accounted for 1 single donation to the farm...
the figures provided are PURCHASES of hay.
Since 3/21/07 they have had
349,600 pounds of hay delivered. This was
estimating round bales at 1000 pounds and
squares at 65 pounds.
At the high end of 2.5% of body weight and
assuming they ALL weigh
1000#(weanlings/yearlings etc.)the horses should
have consumed 207,000 pounds for 4 months
Another
crazy thing was the medical costs. Turn-3
stipulated to $1817.10 which was they spent.
Even though it was all to Dr. Hammer and he
never provided information as to WHAT he
actually did. The receipts they provided only
state a number of hours he was at the farm @
$95/hour. They of course did bill for medicines.
20 horses received tetanus toxoid vaccines. No
others, just tetanus. No reason why listed???
Hammer was there 3/27, 4/4, 4/26, 5/31, 6/6, and
6/21. It was a $35 farm call plus $95/hour.
They apparently did a lot of sedating. 25 ml
Domperidone. A WHOLE BOTTLE of Dormosedan.
Tobugesic. Xyla-Ject. Acepromazine. 100 needles
and 80 syringes!
MSU charged AC $350.00 for a "legal charge
necropsy" for Elvis in addition to $85 gross
necropsy and $120.00 full necropsy. A necropsy
equaled $555.00.
AC also bought 20 syringes and and 36 shots of
Oxytocin from Crosroads Animal Hospital in
Jackson on 5/1.
The first week of seizure 6 AC
employees worked a combined time of 195.7 hours
BEYOND their regular schedules
6 employees of AC worked OVERTIME:
4/2-4/15: 93.6 hours
4/16-4/29: 107.5 hours
4/30-5/13: 159.2 hours
5/14-5/27: 139.0 hours
5/28-6/10: 172.3 hours
6/11-6/24: 123.2 hours
6/25-7/8: 174 hours
7/9-7/19: 99 hours
A grand total of time spent in 4 months BEYOND
Wheaton being there 8 hours per day: 1263.5
hours
Total overtime $ requested by prosecution:
$27,864.21
Here's a kicker the Judge bought: Heather
Wheaton apparently worked 132 hours in a 2 week
period! Not once, but twice! C'mon!
Jennifer Lamp and Kim Luce asked and received a
total of $63,596.17 for Animal Control employees
in a 4 month period! That is $16,000 per month
to feed round bales to horses and clean a
maximum of 5 stalls!
You also have to believe that every single
employee of AC was at the farm that much? Yeah
right. In the 2 weeks of seizure the Kennel help
(2 employees) and the CLERK spent 73.7 hours
there BEYOND the working at the pound?
No wonder Jackson County Animal Shelter smells
so bad... The kennel cleaners were hanging out
at the Turn 3 Ranch making $16.65 per hour and
the clerk who answers the phone was making
$19.24 per hour! These are their own figures!
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