Stolen Horse International, Inc. has received an online report and is asking the public to help get the information out about ponies stolen from a church youth ranch. On Saturday evening June 30th, the horses at Circle C Youth Ranch, which is part of the ministry of the First Baptist Church of Westwood Lake, were safe.
That is until three men and one woman drove up in three separate vehicles and took two of the ponies away.
Importance of ponies to youth camp
Stolen Horse International and NetPosse are asking the public to help get information out about Rusty and Sundae, missing mare and gelding ponies stolen from a Florida church youth ranch.
Around 9 PM on June 30th, a man was seen by a witness in the pasture placing a rope around one of the pony’s neck . The witness said the men were communicating in Spanish when they were trying to catch the horses. When the men were asked what they were doing the witness was told the man and his friends were picking up their ponies that got loose.
Since the person didn’t know anything about horse theft, he didn’t think anything odd about the situation and did not report it to the camp directors or the police at that moment.
Later this terrible mistake was discovered by the camp directors and they knew the horses had been stolen! A report was filed with local officials. The children at Circle C Youth Camp are asking about the whereabouts of Rusty and Sundae, the missing mare and gelding ponies.
The camp had 14 horses that they used to give rides to the almost 200 kids who came to camp each day. Now Rusty and Sundae, two of the little ponies are gone. With the all the butcherings in Miami-Dade County this is not the time or place to have one of your horses stolen.
People interested in helping can use this direct link on the NetPosse.com site: http://www.netposse.com/view_report.asp?reportid=1666 and http://www.netposse.com/view_report.asp?reportid=1665 for complete information about the stolen ponies and for flyers to post in public places.
To a child any horse is special, but Rusty and Sundae are a little more-so than most since they were adopted from the South Florida SPCA. They were to have a safe home here at the camp. Who would have ever thought this would have happen to them now, here of all places.
Stolen Horse International, Inc. received an online report on its Web site filed by Wayne Hershbeger and, in short order, began distributing the information via their NetPosse.com Alert (the horse community’s Amber Alert) on the Internet to hundreds of social media groups and to thousands of individuals in an effort to rally the public to help this camp in need.
A nonprofit organization, NetPosse, is well known in the equine community for horse theft education and assistance in recovering stolen or missing horses, as well as other equine equipment.
Circulating Rusty and Sundae’s flyer and the NetPosse.com Alert nationwide is imperative, as the horses could be anywhere by now. These flyers are the tool that bring home many horses and must be posted in as many public places as possible.