All the Creatures

Did you get that “fairy tale horse” email? It is the one that claims to help your horse have luxurious manes and tails. I got the email last week and thought it sounded a bit odd. I did some investigating into it.

As it turns out, it is a series of ebooks that the author, Beth Moore (if that is her real name) is promoting through clickbank. Currently this little scam is raking in $57 a sale to Beth. From what I was able to find out, the only advice she gives in her books for a long mane and tail is not to brush it.

The scam does not end there. It seems that her website (also called a “push page” in the industry) is full of photos of horses that she has grabbed off of the internet. None of those horses are hers, the owners never heard of her or use any of her techniques to grow long manes and tails. In fact several owners of the horses are trying to get the photos off of her website.

Now if you Google the phone number listed at the bottom of the web page (404-419-7920) be prepared to spend the next 30 minutes wading through what seems to be countless other products this person is selling, including a cure for tight foreskin…I assume on men.

If you have a horse that is on her website just contact Clickbank and they will help you out. They don’t like fraud either and will do what they can to put a stop to it.

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With the internet growing by leaps and bounds, it is getting harder and harder to find really good animal websites. Even with the new Google search I am still getting garbage results. I have found most of the really neat animal websites from being a member of Stumble and just coming upon them in my own searches from other websites. Just the other day I was doing a search to compare term life insurance rates and found a totally unrelated website about that giant area of floating trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

What I would like you to do is leave a comment with suggestions of your favorite animal website or blog. I am sure that many of the readers of this blog would love to check them out too.

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On several of the horse message boards that I frequent, a new, as yet not developed, website was being discussed. The domain is ratemyhorsepro.com  At first glance it looks like many of the dozen or so websites that have popped up over the years to let people rant over the bad and good horse trainers, sellers and breeders. I thought that both the Fugly Blog and Horse Trainers from Hell had the horse industry pretty well covered when it came to the scum of the horse industry but I could be wrong.

I did a bit of digging around about this new website and found out on the COTH message board that a Debbie Hanson has the website in her signature. A bit more digging around and I found this article about Debbie (if indeed it is the same Debbie Hanson on the COTH board). The article is about a woman who got taken by 2 horse dealers that ripped her off for about $28K. She ended up getting the FBI involved and now there is legislation in the works to help expose horse dealers. If indeed this new website is this Debbie’s idea, all I can say is more power to her. I just wonder how the website will be done and how if any checking will be done on the contributors. I would like to see more of a clearing house of criminal records online so you can see who you are dealing with in any venue without having to pay for the information.

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