"Leopards don't change their spots"!  Neither do animal collectors and abusers.  The only thing that has changed with Greenwood's relocation to Ruth, MS, is the locale.

This is an account by a resident of Ruth, MS, complied over the weekend of January 22/23, 2005, at the time the photographs were taken.

Beverly Greenwood is currently living at 2274 Mallalieu Dr., Ruth, MS, located outside of Brookhaven, MS. She is living with Gean H. Norton, the owner of the property where they are currently keeping horses, cows, goats, chickens and a lot of dogs. 

 The total acreage of their current location is about 11.14 acres.  Part of the land is wooded so there is about 6 or 7 acres of pasture. There are currently about 30 horses and 10 cows on the place, and this would be on the low side. It's hard to keep up because poorer animals are constantly being moved into less visible areas. There are also goats and chickens, and 20-30 dogs which run loose together, and are continuously fighting among themselves.

Gean is a woman. The rumor is she inherited some money, and that's how they bought the place. She introduced Beverly as her daughter to 2 different people. Apparently she has a place in Bogue Chitto. These two occasionally go on trips they call "work", so may still be involved in dog relocation. Beverly's two daughters, Monique and Danielle, are also involved in this operation. (Beverly Greenwood also has a son located in Bogue Chitto named Brian Huval.)

Beverly and Gean represent themselves as rescuers of animals, but in the 7 months they have been living there, not one animal's conditions has improved. The skeletons they bring in stay skeletons and the fat horses start losing weight. 3 horses have died, 2 in the last month. These are only the ones I'm aware of. They also had a dead colt, caused when bad weather made the mare go into labor early.

One of the cows is nothing but a skeleton with a hide stretched over it, and they have 3 calves and 1 yearling nursing her.

Different people that live in the area have contacted the Humane Society, the sheriff, the State Animal Health department and the Board of Health with no results.

Since the Pets and People.org people continue to defend Beverly and have her on their board, they may be providing some of the funding for this animal hell. Pets and People is not a registered charity listed on the Registered Charities for the state of Mississippi. A neighbor called the phone number listed on the Pets and People website last night (January 23,2005), and it was answered by Gean Norton who is in Ruth, Mississippi. She verified through the operator that this is a cell phone number.

A lot of the animals are hidden on one side of their place I can't really get to, or get good pictures with my digital camera. Some of the skinnier horses are over there. The Belgian mare in these photos came in huge and you can see what she looks like now.

There is a dead calf laying on the back part of their place, also. I had heard about it and checked for myself this morning. It looks like it was born dead, not surprisingly since the cow is very poor. They hauled her off this afternoon (January 22, 2005).
 

When Norton and Greenwood moved onto this place in June, 2004, the Belgian mare in the photos was one of the first horses they brought in. She was hugely fat, even after she had a colt a week or so later. I don't know what happened to the colt, as I haven't seen it in several months. The mare has steadily lost weight since she arrived.

Horses have continued to arrive almost weekly since they took possesion of the place. Fat horses come in and begin to lose weight. There is absolutely no improvement in any of the horses that are brought in already poor.

A horse died there some time in the late summer or early fall. It was taken to a vet in Franklin county to be put down because, "Franklin County buries them for free." 

Two horses died within weeks of each other on November and December, 2004. No vet was ever called for either of them.

The second one was a Belgian gelding that also came in very fat and had steadily lost weight. It died in their barn after a neighbor had heard it kicking all night. It weighed over 1500 pounds when it came in. He started losing weight immediately, and probably weighed less than a 1000 pounds when he was allowed to die. After being warned by neighbors that there was something wrong with the horse, he was put into their barn where he died after kicking several hours. lthough he died early in the day, he was buried under the cover of darkness. . A vet was never contacted, only a guy with a backhoe to bury it.

We try to keep a good eye on these people, but all have full time jobs, so it's not always possible.

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