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Horse owner charged with animal cruelty
by The Garden Island
A man has been charged with animal cruelty following the death of a horse in Hanapepe.
According to a press release, Kaua‘i Humane Society responded to a report from a neighbor yesterday that one horse was dead and another badly tangled in the Hanapepe Valley.
The dead horse, an adult quarterhorse mare, appeared to have choked to death, the release states. A 20-foot rope tether was caught between her legs and had pinned her to the ground.
The other horse was standing, but tangled up tight to a tree and unable to reach water or food, the release states.
The owner, Richard Corr, 31, of Hanapepe, arrived as Humane Society personnel were untangling the live horse. He said he had not visited the horses since Wednesday and was unaware that the horse had died, the release states.
Corr was charged with animal cruelty by Dr. Rebecca Rhoades, executive director of Kaua‘i Humane Society.
“This mare’s tragic death was totally preventable,” Rhoades says in the release. “If horses are tethered, which I strongly disapprove of, they must be checked multiple times a day for their safety. Whether she got frightened from fireworks or just stepped the wrong way, she had no way to escape from the choking rope and suffered horribly.”
“Tethering horses is a very dangerous practice,” Kaua‘i horse veterinarian, Dr. Scott Sims, agreed, stating that he has witnessed several horses who died after getting tangled up with their rope tethers, one from a severely broken leg.
Jimmy Miranda, owner of CJM stables in Po‘ipu, said he will only tether a horse for training purposes and always under direct supervision.
“I refuse to sell a horse to a buyer if they are going to keep the horse on a rope tether,” Miranda says in the release.
Corr was charged with one count of animal cruelty, a misdemeanor punishable by a $2,000 fine and/or one year in jail.
He was not charged with the new felony animal cruelty law because it does not apply to horses.
His arraignment is scheduled at July 31 at 2 p.m. in Lihu‘e court.
According to a press release, Kaua‘i Humane Society responded to a report from a neighbor yesterday that one horse was dead and another badly tangled in the Hanapepe Valley.
The dead horse, an adult quarterhorse mare, appeared to have choked to death, the release states. A 20-foot rope tether was caught between her legs and had pinned her to the ground.
The other horse was standing, but tangled up tight to a tree and unable to reach water or food, the release states.
The owner, Richard Corr, 31, of Hanapepe, arrived as Humane Society personnel were untangling the live horse. He said he had not visited the horses since Wednesday and was unaware that the horse had died, the release states.
Corr was charged with animal cruelty by Dr. Rebecca Rhoades, executive director of Kaua‘i Humane Society.
“This mare’s tragic death was totally preventable,” Rhoades says in the release. “If horses are tethered, which I strongly disapprove of, they must be checked multiple times a day for their safety. Whether she got frightened from fireworks or just stepped the wrong way, she had no way to escape from the choking rope and suffered horribly.”
“Tethering horses is a very dangerous practice,” Kaua‘i horse veterinarian, Dr. Scott Sims, agreed, stating that he has witnessed several horses who died after getting tangled up with their rope tethers, one from a severely broken leg.
Jimmy Miranda, owner of CJM stables in Po‘ipu, said he will only tether a horse for training purposes and always under direct supervision.
“I refuse to sell a horse to a buyer if they are going to keep the horse on a rope tether,” Miranda says in the release.
Corr was charged with one count of animal cruelty, a misdemeanor punishable by a $2,000 fine and/or one year in jail.
He was not charged with the new felony animal cruelty law because it does not apply to horses.
His arraignment is scheduled at July 31 at 2 p.m. in Lihu‘e court.
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "