Los Gatos Ranch Manager Charged with Animal Cruelty

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged the manager of Chaparral Ranch’s Bear Creek Stables in Los Gatos, a popular South Bay horse riding ranch, with criminally failing to care for a horse that died from malnutrition and heat stroke last year.

Honey the horse was found unable to stand, badly emaciated, and filled with intestinal worms – a condition experts concluded could have been prevented with proper care.

Jennifer Bryant, 25, was arraigned Monday in San Jose Superior Court on a charge of failing to give proper care and attention to an animal, a misdemeanor…

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