Waldoboro police say they have a person of interest in a possible animal abuse case involving seven dead horses.

Waldoboro Police Chief Bill Labombarde says the person is the owner of the horses, which have all died in the last several months -- three in the last week.

BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

Life-long equestrians lost ten horses and a pony that died in a fire Tuesday at their Salem Township barn.

The couple – he’s 77 and she’s 82 -- discovered their barn in the 6100 block of Six Mile Road fully engulfed in flames at 6 p.m., Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Lisa King said today. Nestled in an area between Ann Arbor and Northville north of M-14 dotted with horse barns, theirs was destroyed in the blaze.

The Associated Press

OCALA, Fla. -- Marion County Animal Services says it took custody of 13 neglected thoroughbred horses after the owner abandoned them and failed to provide adequate care for the animals.

By MATTHEW DALY (AP) – 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for an animal protection group is asking a federal judge to block a plan to use helicopters to round up about 2,500 wild horses to remove them from a Nevada range.

The mustang roundup planned for Dec. 28 would be one of the largest in Nevada in recent years. Federal officials plan to use helicopters to force the horses into holding pens before sending them by trailer to pastures in the Midwest and East. The group In Defense of Animals argued against the plan in court Wednesday.

The event is part of the Bureau of Land Management's overall strategy to remove thousands of mustangs from public lands around the West to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. The bureau estimates about half of the nearly 37,000 wild mustangs live in Nevada.

The South Florida Water Management District has been trying to round up 20+ "wild mustangs" since October. A few new foals have been born since then, and all have successfully eluded attempts at helicopter round ups and baiting.