Woman Who Found Emaciated Horse Abandoned Has Raised $5,000 To Help Fund An Investigation

An incredible woman has taken on the responsibility of seeking justice for an animal that was abandoned on a dirt road and left to die.

ABC 7 News Denver reports that Michelle Daughenbaugh was driving along Interstate 76 near Roggen, CO when she noticed something unusual. Pulling over, she found a horse pinned under an abandoned trailer that had tipped over, pulling the animal down with it. The horse appeared emaciated and seemed to have suffered multiple injuries, says Daughenbaugh. "It was probably one of the worst things I ever walked up on," she told ABC.

Neither reporters nor city officials can make any sense of exactly how or why she had been left, and more to the point, why she appeared to be so poorly cared for. Multiple reports claim that the horse was reportedly stolen, but accounts by multiple parties seem to conflict each other.

"[The owner] says somebody had taken her horse off her brother's property where it was being kept. She didn’t recognize the horse trailer, she didn’t know why anybody would do this to her horse," Daughenbaugh told ABC. Thanks to this woman, the horse is alive and an animal welfare investigation is underway, reports FOX 31 Denver. Meanwhile Daughenbaugh has reportedly raised more than $5,000 to fund the investigation.

"I have plenty of people who are willing to give her a good home, who will get vet care to her that she needs, and make sure that she's taken well care of," she tells ABC.

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