Barbara Kaiser of Cornwall was driving by a farm on Route 7 in Middlebury last December when she recognized her own horse, Tie Dye, standing out in the cold. Some months before, she had loaned the 22-year-old Appaloosa to a stable, which in turn had loaned it to someone inexperienced with horses. The animal had resurfaced at the farm owned by Bernard and Louis Quesnel, aka Quesnel Livestock. Tie Dye was tagged with a sticker that indicated she was headed for slaughter in Canada, where the practice is legal.... Read more
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