But during this time I was asked by Schak to help her haul a horse and I said yes as I wanted to have some time to speak to her about an upcoming fundraiser that I was planning for her benefit and another charity my sister also runs since 1994.  I thought Schak's horse rescue could use some funds every year for the rescued horses and I had met Schak the year before at Ride the West in Spokane.

 

Schak picked me up at my farm around 10:00 a.m. and we were sapossed to be back around lunchtime.

 

I got into an ancient Suburban so filled with garbage it was hard to breathe with the stench.  Her daughter was about three at the time was so filthy and half clothed.  By the time we pulled out of the driveway I knew I was in trouble. 

 

Schak drove me to Davenport, WA, about twenty miles from the house and we were going to load up a Thoroughbred mare and drive her back to Airway Heights.  Her daughter kept jumping out of the truck so Schak proceeded to make me the instant babysitter of Julieanne.  I did not agree nor did Schak know me well enough to leave her only daughter in my care.

 

As I was there trying to keep her daughter from running off or climbing through the pens at the auction yards in with the wild horses.  it was then I heard Schak screaming and saw her whipping a scared horse into her stock trailer, a horse she was being paid to haul!.  That mare was very terrified and being beat bloody in front of everyone there.  I was horrified that is what she called "loading" much less hauling a horse.  I said nothing at the time but was frantically searching for a phone so my husband could come rescue me from the horrible situation.

 

After the mare was beat onto the trailer we were driven back to a farm outside of Airway Heights, WA.  I asked the owner for a phone and I did not have my cell on me.  She declined to let me go into her house. 

 

I was told to watch Schak's child again without asking if that was OK and Schak proceeded to beat the mare bloody to get her off the trailer as well.  Not Schak nor anyone at the farm saw anything wrong with beating a half wild mare bloody with a whip to get her off the trailer.  I offered a different solution of putting in food in the barn area as the mare looked half starved and walk away,  I knew the mare  would come off the trailer on her own.  I was ignored.

 

Then Schak loaded her daughter and I back into the garbage pit that was her truck and we went back to haul other horses.  I reminded Schak over and over my husband was waiting and I had to get home.  Schak refused to take me home and held me hostage all day.  I was finally returned home after dinnertime after I had had no lunch or dinner nor even a potty break of forced babysitter while she abused more animals for the day.  I did not have my camera with me or I would of taken photos of all the animals she whipped on and off her trailer all day long.

 

After what I had witnessed with Schak's training methods and liberal use of a whip on horses until they were bloody I vowed to do all I could to never have anything to do with the crazy animal abusing woman again.  That was in 2005 and I programmed this web site to warn people exactly who and what they were dealing with, a woman who uses and abuses animals, and does not save them as a real rescuer but someone who is into animals for the money only.

 

Sincerely,

Margo Mossburg