В Оклахоме женщина вернула похищенных лошадей после многомесячного поиска

Sand Springs woman reunited with stolen horses SAND SPRINGS, (Okla.) — "I mean it’s torture, its devastating. I worry constantly about what someone doing to them," said Jennifer Hastings. She was at her wits end when we met her in May shortly after her two horses, Rainy and Hope went missing. "At first you don’ believe it, you think something happened, maybe they just got out," she said. But then, Jennifer noticed the damage to the fence at the corner of W 57th Street South and South 105th West Avenue. "It had the four rows of barbed wire going up, and you can see the ends where they’ve been cut, both here and then on this side," she said. Jennifer's heart immediately sank realizing her beloved companions had been stolen. "You don’t hear about it but it happens a lot," she said. It's estimated that roughly 50,000 horses are stolen every year. Jennifer reached out to authorities, got on Facebook, and traveled to livestock auctions, and her persistence paid off. "You want some treats?," she said to her found companions. Rainy and Hope are finally back home after a whirlwind few months. "Both horses had been sold in Cleburne Texas at a horse auction. They had been sold separately," she said. In fact, both horses had been sold several times, with Rainy being saved from a kill pen. When the folks who had bought them found out they had stolen property, they promptly turned them over. "And they were both so gracious and didn’t give any trouble at all just returning them," she said. As for the culprits... "They have the suspects, because there were multiple thefts that were related, they are spanning Osage and Tulsa County," she said. Meanwhile, Jennifer says she'll be asking the county to install some streetlights in the area. "I feel like everybody would be a lot safer if we had some more light out here," she said. Hope and Rainy home again. "It's so surreal," she said. A testament to never giving up despite the odds. "I'm glad to provide a happy ending," she said.