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OK so here we are, 2009 Micheal Vick just got out of jail for Dogfighting and for the killing of dogs. Although I don’t condone what Micheal Vick did, I do believe what happend in Fort Pierre over the 4th of July weekend is much worse. The news stories on this have been very vauge but let me copy in a description I recieved in a forward and perhaps you will understand.

Hi everyone, need your prayers for Wendy and her horse.
She was rodeoing this 4th was at Ft. Pierre, done with the rodeo and fireworks were going off.
Put Dully in her trailer, got up about midnight, put him in the arena as all yards were taken, saw young people partying but didn’t think anything of it, got up at 6am he was gone. Terrified went looking for him along with many others, seems the partiers had rode him down the main street so hard ripping his shoes off. Tied him to a tree roped his legs, beat him took his front and back legs with ropes an stretched him out he fell to the ground, tied his legs as you would a calf and roped and beat him, he is cut all over burned his legs, the dad of the one kid hid him at his place another kid found him told her to get the sheriff to go there not to go alone, i am sure they were going to destroy him. They brought him to her his head fell into her arms. She rushed him to vet his legs were swelling an after washing him off found it to be even worse. Today his legs broke open and can see the tendons, if the tendon stays on the bone and if they can keep infection out. He may heal but I don’t think he will be the same from something so terrible.She is beside herself. There is more but this is enough for you to know the jest of it all. We need your prayers

I know the NFL is far more popular than Rodeo, and that things that happen on the East Coast are in the news far more often, but this is awful, this wasn’t some unwanted, uncared for, Mut. This was an athelete, this horse was easilly worth between $25,000 and $100,000 depending on who you ask, and to the owner this horse was priceless. There are names floating around on who has done this, but I refuse to add until it is for certain. Let’s say this, in the Wild West when this countries morals were a little bit more relaxed and the law was few and far between, things like this got no trial and no sentence. A Rope, and A Tree were all that was needed, now stealing horses, and cattle is a small offense. If Micheal Vick got 2 years, these people should get 20.

There are groups all over the web, Facebook has 3 that I know of, people collecting money for the owner, people calling for punishment of the drunks. All of that is good, but nothing would make me happier than to see the offenders sitting on the back of a healthy “Dually” with a rope tied to their necks and having “Dually” be the last horse they ever have between their legs as he leaves them hanging.

I don’t know Weny personally, but I feel this kind of thing shouldn’t happen, especially in my hometown a known rodeo town. Thoughts and prayers go out to Wendy, Dually and everyone who has been touched by them.