Her horses are making progress with their recovery at the Payette Partners Rescue Ranch in New Plymouth.
Weeks after three horses were rescued, Payette officer Lois Silva admires their recovery. She noticed back in the summer, the horses were being neglected.
"Their bones were all showing no muscle mass," said Silva.
So she started documenting their lessening conditions.
"I observed about a third of a bale of hay for more than a week never moved, the horses were scrounging, it snowed, they were reaching out of the fence eating the branches off of trees that had no leaves," said Silva.
By November she gained enough evidence to finally get the horses removed from Wright's Payette home. At the time of the seizure another startling discovery was made -- the frozen fetus of another horse.
"I don't know that it was a live birth or if was due to malnutrition that it aborted," she said.
But now the horses are getting a new life thanks to the Payette Partners Rescue Ranch where Lynn Vernazza gives them special care
"They are pretty dirty, but they are doing well," said Vernazza.
With a steady diet of hay and alfalfa given by the generous donations of the community, these rescue horses are starting to coming out of their shells. Vernazza will need to socialize them and even tame them.
She rescues, because she says in this area, this scenario happens far too often.
"Part of the situation is financial because hay is such a premium," said Vernazza. "You can't just dump them out. There are alternatives, if you have a cat, a dog, a pig, a goat, a cow, there are alternatives if you can't take care of them."
The work is never done here. Silva sees progress the horses have made.
"I think they were as glad to be rescued as we were to rescue them, if you can put feelings on horses," said Silva.
But they will need more time before they are ready for a new home.
Wright has been charged with one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty. She has already been released from custody.
In Idaho, the third animal cruelty offense is a felony. A law passed by the Legislature in 2012.
(KTVB - Dec 11, 2014)
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