Alberta woman's horses slaughtered

[Catherine]

An Alberta woman boarded her horses with a friend. When the friend died she was given until the end of April to move the horses. When she arranged for their move, the horses were gone. They had been sold, sent to a slaughterhouse and they were already dead.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/they-were-...-1.3909749

The slaughterhouse did not ask for proof of ownership before it killed the horses. Someone claiming to be the owner sold them. He has been caught and charged.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rcmp-charg...-1.3912580

It won't bring the horses back, but it is important that the man who stole the horses be charged. 
Certainly the slaughterhouse  needs to think about its actions. They clearly didn't verify that the horses belonged to the man selling them.

I guess there is a lesson in safety for our pets here. If we have to board a pet like a horse we need to be sure that the pet will be safe even if something happens to the place where the horse is boarding. Maybe horses need to be labeled better.
Something needs to be done so that this can never happen again.