TENNESSEE CHAINSAW MASSACRE!!!

CANCER EYE COW ENDURES GOUGED OUT EYE AT THE HANDS OF SICKO FARMER, A 5 DAY HAUL ON THE WIRE WITH NO FOOD/WATER, AND WAITS AS BLOOD SPLATTERS DOWN  HER FACE TO RIDE TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ...

UPDATE:
COW ABUSER JACK AIKEN ARRESTED AT NEW HOLLAND AND DRAGGED OUT OF CATTLE SALE IN HANDCUFFS!
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MARCH 5, 2007 ...

Penelope, a 7 year old Hereford milking cow, is found standing in a substandard trailer on a barbaric, 6 gauge wire and slatted wood plank floor. There is no hay or water in the trailer. The trailer is parked in a huge parking lot of a popular livestock slaughter auction. The driver of the truck, JACK AIKEN from Tennessee's Aiken Livestock, is drunk and asleep in the front seat of his pickup. Blood is trickling down Penelope's empty eye socket and blood is splattered everywhere. Her eye appears to have been gouged out earlier that morning. Penelope's one intact eye is blind. Her front left hoof is shaking. She is foaming at the mouth and has terrible difficulty breathing. There are open wounds all over her body. It appears that she has developed cement floor bed sores from being kept in a tie-stall indefinitely. Manure and filth are caked to her hind end and legs.

The HSUS, as well as both New Holland cruelty officers, are contacted. Pennell Hopkins, local humane officer, describes the situation as "the worst abuse case she's seen so far." Farm Sanctuary's Officer Keith Mohler is outraged at this sight from Texas Chain Saw Massacre.


Later in the day, Jack Aiken exits the truck and makes way for the cattle sale, leaving Penelope behind in the truck. He will not attempt to sell her at New Holland because the management cannot legally receive an animal in that kind of deplorable condition. Jack Aiken's plan is to leave the cow in the back of the truck until he collects a truckload of other slaughter-bound cattle and then take the whole load of them to a slaughterhouse.


Pennell Hopkins pulls Aiken out of the sale and demands that he come to his truck. She tells him he has already committed numerous transport violations and advises him to surrender the abused cow to authorities. She goes to her truck and fills out paperwork for his citations. Pennell brings a horse blanket to Penelope and covers her with it. Officer Mohler gets hay and fills up a bucket of water and puts it on the trailer floor.

Penelope turns back and looks at her rescuers, as if to acknowledge them for saving her from years of misery and her intended death at a slaughterhouse. But Penelope is totally blind. She just turns her head to make a connection with the kindness of strangers. Thanks to funding from the HSUS, a luxury horse trailer owned and driven by Linda Whitmer of Tailspin Transport is ordered to take Penelope to an emergency vet hospital.


Pennell, Mohler, and the people who found Penelope in her condition all hover around Penelope and wait for the horse hauler to arrive under the Amish carriage horse shed. It's frigid outside and Penelope lies down on a bed of straw. Penelope has just about given up. When the trailer arrives, it takes the team work of both cruelty officers, a German Shepherd, Linda and her daughter, and friends of Penelope to lift her up and load her onto the beautiful show horse trailer. Penelope stands during the entire 45 minute trip the to vet's. Penelope arrives at the vet's office. The emergency vet on call feels she should be euthanized while still on the trailer due to the severity of her conditions. He notes in her death report, "A physical exam revealed severe necrosis of the right orbital and periorbital region, (likely secondary to squamous cell carcinoma given the breed and clinical appearance), blindness of the left eye, mastitis, pneumonia (as evident by labored breathing and harsh lung sounds on respiratory auscultation), tachycardia, hypothermia, severe lice infestation, and poor body condition."

Although friends of Penelope ask the vet to give Penelope a shot at recovery, intending to retire her at HorseFellas for whatever time she has left, it is determined the following morning that the only happy ending for this tormented, heartbroken bovine will be a humane death. Penelope's friends sought comfort in the fact that Penelope spent her last night in a huge, clean stall with fluffy bedding, hay, and a bucket of water. Penelope is in heaven now, but there will be no justice on earth for her until Jack Aikens is held accountable in a court of law for animal cruelty and neglect, illegal transport of a "cancer eye" inflicted bovine to a slaughter auction and/or the intent to haul her to a slaughterhouse, and the act of gouging out a cow's eye with no anesthetic with a farm knife.


Bovines with "cancer eye" are often sent to a vet facility for surgery to remove the afflicted eye so that the cancer ceases to spread and the cow can still be used for dairy replacement. But the eye cannot fall out on its own unless it is removed. In Aiken's case, it is evident that he removed the eye himself. The immense pain and suffering this animal endured at the hands of this repulsive redneck, Jack Aikens, is unforgivable.


HorseFellas will update you on the outcome of this case. Currently a humane officer in TN has inspected and passed Aiken's 160 acre dairy facility. But HorseFellas will not let sleeping dogs lie, so to speak. We don't believe that Aiken's farm is "cow heaven on earth." Otherwise, Penelope would not have been found in her deplorable condition. Look at the pictures and decide for yourself. Do you think Jack Aiken should get away with his hideous crime against Penelope?