From welfare recipients to J.Z. Knight, a millionaire. Mary has experienced both extremes in her work with the Livestock Protection Association, a non-profit organization she helped launch to rescue neglected farm animals in the south Puget Sound area. From the abusers to law enforcers. The police have their priorities. If a burglar alarm goes off and at the same time they get a report of a dying horse, they're going to check on the burglar alarm.
People take precedent.
I've actually had an officer say, 'The horse is already dead. Or they say they don't have anyone qualified to spot horse abuse who they can send out. And yet they won't admit they need educating. The lieutenant stood stoic, rubbing the forehead of a mare. The Wares stopped to watch a Palomino gelding being longed in an outdoor, circular pen.