Buying time in Sabah

Just heard the news that Ranch A owners are selling off their horses from RM 500 to RM 10 000 which is disgraceful as they are half dead. In any case, it is likely that SPCA will be going down on Monday to try to verify the truth and will try to buy as many as our budget will allow and do whatever is necessary be it putting them down or to rehabilitate them. The situation is not ideal and we do loathe to put money in their hands but we are really not sure how else to get the horses out. Sometimes it is sickening to see animal abusers go scot free but in such extreme cases the animals' welfare is more important and outweighs other considerations. They should not have to suffer unduly any longer. Ideally it would be prefect if there were some kind of criminal proceedings against them or if there is some boycott that they are not to own horses for x number of years or forever. But currently as it stands its rather sad in that we have no guarantee once we buy them that the money will not be used to purchase other horses and we won't find ourselves in the same situation 5 years down the road. Exactly what we were trying to avoid in the first place. Of course all this can be remedied by the DVS acting responsibly by pursuing this as a cruelty case but as they not and we have given them their requested 3 months we might as well treat as many as we can financially support and rehome the suitable ones. The owners clearly deserves to be prosecuted.