Stolen Horse International, Inc. 
PO Box 1341
Shelby, NC 28151
(704) 484-2165

stolenhorse@netposse.com  

Idaho, stolen from Shelby  Farm September 26, 1997  RECOVERED SEPTEMBER 17, 1998, 51 WEEKS LATER!This face picture on her flyer brought her home.  This the horse that started IDAHO ALERTS FOR MISSING HORSES

Read Idaho's story as told by Debi Metcalfe in 1998.  The theft of Idaho started more than Debi and her family could ever imagine.  

Today the internet is full of helpful resources, other organizations are copying Stolen Horse International, Inc. all because of the theft of one horse, thousands of kind people around the world and one very determined woman. 

 Never underestimate the power of one!

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Below is the form submitted by Debi Metcalfe. 
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real name: Debi MetcalfeThis is the way Idaho's head looked when she was younger.Click on picture for larger view of Harold and Idaho together again for the first time.Click on this picture for larger image.

owners name:  Harold Metcalfe

email: idahonc@aol.com 

city: Shelby

state: NC

zip: 28150

other phone:704-484-2165Spot had been mostly removed--this is the day we brought her back home.  Notice the line.

date of theft: September 26, 1997

type of theft: missing from pasture

city county of theft: Cleveland

horses name: Idaho

breed: gaited racking horseThe day Idaho came home!

sex: mare

color: white, with flea-bitten head and neck, flea-bitten spot on her right side, tri-color mane and tri-color tail

age: 12  years old

weight: 

height: 15 hands

identifiable characteristics: 

  • white body
  • Flea-bitten head mostly brown with flecks of white and black
  • white blaze which you can see but it too fades a bit on the sides
  • Flea-bitten brown spot on her right side.  It has flecks of black and white hairs in spot.  It is a large spot.
  • Mane starts at the top with forelock black, black part of the way on her neck and the rest of her mane is whitDebi and Idaho in 2003eIdaho's freeze brand put on as soon as she came home.
  • Her tail is white at the top with tri-color tail at the bottom
  • When gaiting her neck sets high and her tail comes up like a rooster

how stolen: Someone who has been watching and baiting our horses cut the pasture fence, lead Idaho and Harold getting ready to go for their first ride after her return.her to a trailer waiting near by and took her away

local agency: Cleveland County Sheriff's Office

agency address:  DeKalb St

agency city: Shelby

agency state: North Carolina

agency zip: 28151

agency county: Cleveland

agency phone: 

agency fax:  

agency report date: 9/26/97

agency case num:  

agency contact:   
reward: yes

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