Two married bodybuilders have been charged with animal cruelty after Florida authorities found three 'horribly emaciated' and starved horses at their ranch in a rural area of South Miami-Dade.
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Miami-Dade Agricultural Patrol officials seized the animals on May 27 and Alex Paez, 48, was hit with four misdemeanor counts of animal abuse and issued a promise to appear in court.
His wife, 50-year-old Milagros Cowan, was arraigned Friday on the same charges as her husband.
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After the hungry horses were seized in May, they were handed over to the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SFSPCA) to be nursed back to health, the agency reported.
horses' hooves had not been trimmed in at least a year and they were so overgrown that one of the animals was having trouble walking and almost toppled over while being rescued.
SFSPCA director of ranch operations, Laurie Waggoner, called the stalls where the horses were being kept 'filthy' and said they 'looked like they hadn't been cleaned in a very long time'.
Cowan reportedly said the horses were just 'a little thin' and their hooves were 'not that bad'.
A volunteer who was assisting Waggoner, John Garcia, said: 'There was trash and dangerous debris everywhere, all over the ground, making it almost impossible to find a place to walk without stepping on something.
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