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Group joins search for missing horses

July 25, 2008 @ 10:28 AM

Herald-Dispatch.com

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — As a western Kentucky woman faces charges that she treated her horses inhumanely, a national horse rescue group is trying to find what happened to them.


Linda Kingston’s court appearance Thursday was postponed until Aug. 26 because the five horses — seized from her property in McCracken County on May 28 — were missing. A sixth horse was euthanized.


Kingston has pleaded not guilty to the charges.


The Paducah Sun reported Friday that Melody Parrish of Freedom Hill Horse Rescue in Owings, Md., said she received an e-mail Thursday from a woman who had pulled 13 horses from a pen where they were being held for shipment to a slaughterhouse.


Parrish said she did not yet know if any of the horses matched descriptions of those missing in Kentucky.


Kingston said she wanted Jody Dick — a friend of her son’s — to assume ownership of the horses so she wouldn’t have to pay the county for caring for them.


Kingston’s lawyer, Will Kautz, said a July 2 court order transferred the horses to Dick.


The newspaper reported Dick did not return calls it made seeking comment.