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| | EXPOSÉ | | THE CRUEL CAREER OF BRUCE ROTZ |  | | During years of heartbreaking investigations around the country, Animals' Angels investigators have found few kill buyers to be as persistently cruel and callous as Bruce Rotz. This month’s newsletter exposes Bruce Rotz's brutal history and renews Animals' Angels' commitment to keep the notoriously cruel kill buyer at the forefront of our investigative efforts. | | WHO IS BRUCE ROTZ? | For those supporters who may not have encountered him in our past 14 years of newsletters, exposés, and reports, Bruce Rotz operates a horse slaughter operation in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. In fact, Rotz is one of the largest shippers remaining on the East Coast.
In addition to being a cruel, callous kill buyer, Rotz is also notorious for his violent, flaming hot temper. He once spotted Animals' Angels investigators filming him and followed them down the road for miles in a violent effort to run them over! |  | | BRUCE ROTZ IS NO STRANGER TO (CAUSING) TRAGEDY | As shown throughout years of investigations, Bruce Rotz is responsible for the suffering and death of many horses on an ongoing basis, but his negligence and culpability finally reached the national news back in 2013 when tragedy struck and 30 of his horses in transit to slaughter were burned alive.
A truck on Highway I-81 in New York had been transporting the horses to the slaughter plant in Richelieu when it caught fire, exploding into flames, and killing all horses on board.
Unaffected by the tragedy he'd left in his wake, Rotz continued to operate with impunity, and in 2016, another one of his trucks, pulling a crowded trailer filled with another 30 horses, encountered disaster on its way home from the auction in Knoxville, Tennessee. When the truck crashed, ten of the horses met a gruesome end inside the packed trailer. | | BRUCE ROTZ BREAKS THE LAW (AGAIN) | As Bruce Rotz runs his inhumane slaughter operation, he isn't above breaking the law now and again (and again). Once, after shipping blind and injured horses to slaughter, Rotz had to pay a $1,300 fine. Other documented offenses include shipping non-segregated stallions and failing to fill out the required owner-shipper certificates.
But none of those violations or fines seemed to change his ways. In fact, Rotz is currently awaiting trial for aggravated cruelty to animals after being accused of causing the senseless death of several animals by depriving them of food and water. |
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 | | BRUCE ROTZ MAKES RACEHORSES "DISAPPEAR" | Recent Animals' Angels' investigations suggest that Rotz is the "go-to person" when it comes to making former racehorses "disappear" without a trace. On three different occasions our investigators caught Rotz with thoroughbreds in his trailer.
Luckily, due to Animals' Angels' documentation, there was a happy ending to one of these incidents, and the thoroughbred in question was recovered by its original owner. (Read the full account at Hawser exits New Holland trailer for good life.)
Unfortunately, another incident ended in more tragic circumstances and resulted in felony charges being filed against the seller, a woman named Kelsey LeFever, who had promised to give four former racehorses a good home but then sold them to Rotz instead, who shipped them off for slaughter. (Read the full account at Kelsey Lefever: 'Every One of Them Is Dead'.) Then, just a few weeks ago, Animals' Angels filmed Rotz at the New Holland auction again, this time conducting a trailer-to-trailer sale of a limping Standardbred, proving that his past troubles still haven't taught him anything. | | BRUCE ROTZ NEEDS TO STOP | Animals' Angels has made Rotz a priority in the past and will continue to keep a special place for him at the top of our investigation list as we monitor, document, and report on his activities and any violation of animal protection laws.
We encourage all our supporters and all animal advocates who read this newsletter, to share this information about Bruce Rotz with as many people as possible in an effort to raise awareness about his history of cruelty to animals.
Hopefully, our combined efforts will convince more and more buyers not to purchase horses on Bruce Rotz's online platforms, thus supporting our ultimate goal of shutting down his operations for good. | | READ MORE |
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