9‑month sentence in case of starved horses
By LEVI PULKKINEN
Published Oct 17 2008
Lilly was a foal when animal control officers saved her from Jean Marie Elledge’s pasture.
Skinny and sick, she was still better off than the four horses found dead on the Carnation property. Horse rescue workers thought there might be a chance for her.
Their hopes, though, were misplaced. Lilly was euthanized weeks later when it became clear she wouldn’t recover from the parasites Elledge had allowed to linger in her.
“We cried over her, and we apologized to her for what had happened to her,” said Bonnie Hammond, a Save a Forgotten Equine worker who took Lilly on a final walk before she was put down.
“We’ll never know the horse she could have been,” she said. Read the full article at the Seattle PI website.
