But the lives of their owners have taken a turn for the worse. Harold Kelley and Joanie Osgood haven been charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty.
Kelley and Osgood boarded their horses at Southwick Farm in Northfield.
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| The barn that the horses were locked inside. |
Police said the conditions in which the horses were kept was poor. The horses were never taken out of the barn in which they stayed for three years. The horses were never given the opportunity to exercise or even see daylight.
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| Trying to move horses out of the dilapidated barn. They had to rip it apart to rescue the horses. |
"It depends on whose opinion you are looking at and their definition of abuse," Kelley said.
WMUR cameras were at the farm in early June, the day after the horses were taken by the state. Kelley, who owns two of the removed horses, is the farm's caretaker.
Sgt. Michael Hutchinson said the horses would have to stand in feces and their stalls weren't big enough.
Osgood said nothing to our cameras on that day. But police said she rarely ever showed her face at the farm.
"Basically Joanne never came up to the property, (never) helped clean the stalls never took care if the horses never had any veterinary care brought up to the horses," Hutchison said.
The horses are now being cared for at Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester and are said to be improving.
It is unclear at this point if Kelley and Osgood will take their horses back and assume responsibility for them. They are scheduled to be back in court at the end of August.
(WMUR - June 26, 2014)
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