{"id":20314,"date":"2019-11-26T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61740"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:55:09","slug":"da-charges-couple-shown-pulling-horse-behind-pickup-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/da-charges-couple-shown-pulling-horse-behind-pickup-in-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"DA charges couple shown pulling horse behind pickup in viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 14th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Tuesday that a couple who shot a video of a horse being pulled behind a truck and shared it on Facebook is now facing animal cruelty charges.<\/p>\n

Amber Saldate, 33, and John Saldate, 52, are each charged with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty after the Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office launched an investigation into the video that went viral.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Amber Saldate posted the minute long video on Facebook. In it, a horse that refused to move was tied by its bridle to the hitch on a pickup truck driven by John Saldate and pulled across a property in Grand Lake while the horse actively resisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause these events are now the subject of an active prosecution, our ethical obligations prohibit us from discussing it, but interested persons can attend the public court proceedings if they choose,\u201d District Attorney Matt Karzen said in a news release.<\/p>\n

The horse has been seized by the sheriff\u2019s office and taken to the Colorado Humane Society. A veterinary exam on Monday showed no signs of obvious trauma, but the horse was \u201ctender\u201d and given pain medication, Grand County Brett Schroetlin said. Further evaluations will be done to ensure the horse\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

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The sheriff\u2019s office began the investigation after receiving \u201ccountless\u201d messages<\/a> from people in the community asking the sheriff\u2019s office to pursue charges against the couple in the video.<\/p>\n

In the original Facebook post, Amber Saldate explained that they checked the horse\u2019s tendons and its muscles after the horse was pulled across the property to ensure it wasn\u2019t injured, but that did little to ease public outrage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 100 different ways this could have been handled with better results and not traumatizing the horse,\u201d one Facebook commenter noted, while another stated that the Saldates \u201cdon\u2019t even deserve to own a goldfish.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original video post was taken down, but a shorter clip circulating Facebook had been viewed more than 28,000 times by Monday morning.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CBS Channel 4 in Denver<\/a>, the owners expressed remorse for their actions, as Amber Saldate told the reporter she lost her job and the couple has angered many people as a result of their \u201cstupid\u201d actions.<\/p>\n

via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 14th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Tuesday that a couple who shot a video of a horse being pulled behind a truck and shared it on Facebook is now facing animal cruelty charges. Amber Saldate, 33, and John Saldate, 52, are each charged with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty after the Grand County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:29:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20325,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20314\/revisions\/20325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}