A horse rescue in Western Maryland involved the same Humane Society disaster team that responds to hurricanes, floods and forest fires.






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Seized horses feed on fresh hay Sunday, Dec. 3, at a farm near Sharpsburg, Md. Humane Society officials and Washington County sheriff’s deputies have seized the property of a registered nurse accused of keeping about six dozen horses, many of them sick and malnourished, on her farm. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)


Over the weekend, the Humane Society of the United States sent two members of its disaster-response unit to Sharpsburg to help the Humane Society of Washington County round up dozens of sick, hungry and frightened horses on a poorly tended farm

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