Disturbing Scenes on Barb Thiry's Farm

 

EDIT 10/13/13:
Remember, these pictures are from 2009 and Thiry no longer lives at this residence. Yes, authorities do have these pictures. They can't charge her on this old stuff, but they have charged her for her current neglect of 5 horses in Clintonville. Those horses are now safe. More info here. Click that link to find find out who you can write to in this case to ask that Barb Thiry gets the maximum penalty!

Trial update 11/13/13: Barb Thiry relinquishes three mares, ordered to pay for support of two stallions, trial ongoing. Read more at this link.

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In 2009, Barbara J. Thiry was evicted from her farm for nonpayment of taxes. That farm was located on Winding Road in Kewaunee, WI. The man who bought her farm and cleaned it up took pictures to document the presence of the many dead animals he found. Among the ruins of what had clearly been a hoarder's home, he found dead goats, dead dogs, dead cats, and dead horses. None had been buried. Most were in buildings on top of trash, indicating that they died where they had fallen, untreated by any vet. Disturbingly, some of the horses' heads had been removed, wrapped in plastic, and placed in a nearby enclosure. I present to you a few of these pictures for two reasons:

Barb J. Thiry

1) To forever silence those who have tried to defend Barb Thiry. Yes, some people still have sympathy for this woman. They want me to stop publishing blogs about her, and they want to help that "sweet old lady" keep her animals. Perhaps once those people see these pictures, they will finally understand the true extent of the horror Barb Thiry has visited upon animals in her care.

2) To emphasize to the world that Barbara J. Thiry SHOULD NEVER, EVER, BE ALLOWED TO OWN ANIMALS AGAIN. Since it's highly unlikely any court will ever order this, I would like to make her very, very famous, in the hopes that anyone who sees her face or hears her name will instantly think "animal abuser." This is the only way I can think of to try to prevent more animals from falling into her hands.

I do want to emphasize that these pictures are old, the farm no longer belongs to Thiry, and it's unlikely she can be charged with crimes related to the abuse she no doubt inflicted on the animals in these pictures. I present these pictures to you only for the reasons I mentioned above.

Since Thiry was charged with more recent animal abuse, the story of her past abuse, and the finding of these animals' remains, has come to light...

WARNING:

The following pictures are disturbing.

This is one of the horse heads found wrapped in plastic. Other bones are scattered around or stored in buckets.

The man who cleaned up Thiry's farm says this picture contains a dead dog and dead cat. There is also an unidentified white animal in the cage in the upper left.

A horse's spine was trampled into manure several feet deep. The spine had no skull attached. The farm's new owner says there was also a dead dog nearby.

Three shacks contained the skeletons of goats.