STOLEN HORSE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Tuesday June 3, 2014
 

For more information, contact: Stolen Horse International
704-484-2165

Email: debi@netposse.com

Two Missouri Horses Stolen and One Comes Home. Where’s Babe?

ALTON, MO—Tuesday, May 26, 2014 two horses were standing in an Oregon County pasture when the sun went down. Wednesday morning there was no trace of the two. They’d vanished into thin air.

Richard Enarson and Loretta Bettis asked Stolen Horse International for assistance in locating their horses - Babe, a 9-year-old Palomino Missouri Fox Trotter mare, and Pete, a Palomino Quarter Horse Stallion, believed by the Oregon County Sheriff's Office to have been lost or stolen.

Stolen Horse International, a nonprofit organization, aka NetPosse.com, is well known in the equine community for horse theft education and assistance in recovering stolen or missing horses, as well as other equine equipment.

On May 28, 2014, Stolen Horse International, Inc. received the first online report on its Web site, www.NetPosse.com, filed by Loretta Bettis and, in short order, began distributing the information via its NetPosse Alert (the horse community’s Amber Alert) on the Internet to hundreds of social media groups and private email contacts in an effort to rally the public to help the families.

The next day while Bettis was at the Enarson home, Pete was mysteriously returned to a round pen on the farm.

There are many unanswered questions that pop into mind but the most important one is, where is Babe? We hope you will help the Enarson family answer that question.

You will find Babe’s webpage with information and a printable flyer in her NetPosse.com listing, which is where any updates or leads will be posted. People interested in helping can search for report number NR002254 or use this direct link on the NetPosse.com site: http://www.netposse.com/view_report.asp?reportid=2253.  

“Circulating Babe’s flyer and the NetPosse.com Alert nationwide is imperative, as the horses could be anywhere by now. These flyers are the tool that bring home many horses and must be posted in as many public places as possible,” say the organization's founder Debi Metcalfe. “And remember, not everyone has Internet access. Please post Babe’s flyer in public places as well.”

The sheriff department’s case number and other information are on the NetPosse flyer and webpage to identify this case quickly when calling in a tip. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Oregon County Sheriff’s Office, (417) 778-6611 or Stolen Horse International with information.