A breeder in Mount Olive, Texas is now facing 77 counts of animals cruelty after police authorities found her business allegedly abandoned, littered with dead animals and sub-standard living conditions.    The breeder, Ms. Forrest K. ‘Kaye’ Meadows, 56 years old, was arraigned on Wednesday morning fr the charges and will have to show up in court for her trial on November 19th.    All of this coming from a visit to her property where she ran Texas Connection Transport, a company that took care of horses, transported horses and provided other services for horse owners.  Their slogan was, ‘Horses are our business…our only business!’   In January Wayne County Animal Control removed 20 horses from the care of Ms. Meadows, but they weren’t the only animals that were in danger, there were also a number of cats and dogs that lived in poor conditions.  When authorities showed up at the site the business was not in operation in early 2008.  Nor was Ms. Meadows on the property at the time Animal Control visited.  Although the business was no longer in operation it was at one time known for transporting horses to various locations throughout the states.    Director of the Animal Control, Justin Scally stated that, They (the horses) were malnourished…There were a couple of deceased horses, there was a deceased cat, the cats were living in bad conditions inside the house, feces all over the floor, litter boxes completely overflowing.’   A former client of Meadows, one horse breeder named Dennis Zielke from Sonoma, California stated that he knows first hand how bad conditions were at the Texas Connection Transport.  He got a call from them on January 31 to say that there was trouble with his horse.  When he got there he was shocked.    Zielke stated, ‘She had been neglected of food for months…This is not something, like, 'Hey, you missed a meal or two…I actually gave her away…So I lost close to $22,000, in vet bills, lost breeding and everything else. In short, Texas Connection almost killed her, and effectively did -- that filly has absolutely no value to me as a breeding filly anymore."   His horse stayed at the stable with Texas Connection for only a little over four and a half months.   Source: http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2008/10/12/woman_faces_77_counts_of_animal_cruelty/