RCMP charge southern Alberta man after woman’s horses sold to slaughterhouse

STIRLING, Alta. — A man in southern Alberta is facing charges after a woman’s two horses were sold to a slaughterhouse and processed without her knowledge.

RCMP say the woman had been boarding her two horses at a farm near Stirling for five years.

Last month, a relative of the farm owner told her that he had died and she had to find a new home for the horses by the end of April.

When she went to the farm on Saturday to get the horses she was told the animals had been sold.