Man drags horse behind ATV: ask for harshest penalty

BACKGROUND | FROM THE EXAMINER

Sequoyah County, Oklahoma – Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Reuben Houston, 26 pending charges of animal cruelty. Houston dragged his horse behind his ATV severely injuring the animal.

According to the police report, Houston became angry at his horse for continually escaping from the paddock. Obviously in an attempt to punish the horse, Houston allegedly tied the animal to his ATV, dragged him down a paved road, and then tied the horse to a tree.

A neighbor found the horse tied to the tree and called the Sheriff’s Department.

The horse’s eye was protruding from the eye socket, and his flesh was torn away from his shoulders, ribs, hip and flank. His injuries were so egregious a veterinarian had to humanely euthanize the horse.

Houston was booked into the Sequoyah County Jail and has since been freed on bond.





PETITION

Demand Maximum Sentence for OK Man that Critically Injured Horse by Dragging Behind ATV





WHOM TO CONTACT

Sequoyah County District Attorney Office

Sequoyah County Courthouse

120 East Chickasaw

Sallisaw, OK 74955

Telephone Number: 918-775-9131

Fax Number: 918-775-1215

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SAMPLE LETTER

RE: Reuben Houston

Dear District Attorney,

I have learned of extremely disturbing and malicious cases of animal cruelty in which Mr. Reuben Houston deliberately caused the suffering and subsequent death of a horse by dragging him behind his ATV and then tying him to a tree; due to the extensive and debilitating injuries, the horse had to be humanely euthanized. I am writing today to encourage you to pursue every route investigating this hideous crime in order to effectively charge and prosecute Mr. Houston and sentence him to the harshest penalty; his crime causing unimaginable agony, fear, and death in the horse and distress and wanton endangerment in children and adults who witnessed the tortured animal on display tied to the tree deserve social justice, not community approval.

When I try to imagine what possible motive animal abusers entertain for subjecting their animal victims to such malicious, heinous acts of brutality, I fail, but I am thankful for a lack of cognitive understanding and rationalization. To voluntarily engage in such malicious behaviour suggests sadistic tendencies, and this Mr. Houston’s actions, causing unmitigated pain and suffering, demonstrates an incontrovertible lack of morality regarding other living beings and a gross disrespect for the law. In fact, a person who shows such a remarkable lack of compassion towards non-human animals has the ability to show such indifference towards human animals. This link between animal and human abuse has been established, and if society excuses Mr. Houston’s criminal behaviour, or agrees to a lesser punishment, we only harm ourselves by unjustly nullifying cruelty as acceptable behaviour.

Please respect the victim by penalizing the guilty; doing so will demonstrate your commitment to justice, responsibility, and integrity, attributes unquestionably necessary in a legal setting: rejecting cruelty by maintaining an unyielding position towards it would be a model for all community members and would serve to characterize this type of behaviour as both impermissible and punishable.

I know your time is limited and I thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.

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i sit here in anger

and i want to cry

over and over

i ask myself why

throw the book

at this vicious

jerk

and others

like him

a strong enough

deterrent that

will work:(

Karen Lyons Kalmenson



