FEB 2025: After multiple calls into the PAWS Hotline regarding starving horses with significant injuries, it takes Animal Welfare Services (AWS) 8 days to respond. The horses were owned by Stephanie Redlick and complaints were registered by people who saw the horses first hand.
On initial assessment, AWS Inspectors deemed 5 horses to be in distress.
The Inspector wrote orders for the owner – Stephanie Redlick to get immediate vet care administered. She had 8 days to comply with the order.
Stephanie Redlick never complied. ALSO: AWS has NOT charged Stephanie Redlick for cruelty !!!!
After first deeming the horses to be distress, AWS did nothing to help those horses for 8 days.
AWS negligence forced those horses to continue to suffer.
A number of formal complaints were made to the Ministry of the Solicitor general complaint reporting mechanism. Clear evidence was submitted to show that Inspectors did not act in a manner to address and alleviate the suffering of those horses in an efficient and humane manner. Their inaction was contrary to their own Code of Conduct.
AWS Chief Melanie Milczynski has dismissed every complaint. And deemed the file CLOSED.
Below is clear evidence that AWS failed to act in a manner to alleviate the suffering of the horses in a timely and humane manner.
CALL TO ACTION – Email AWS Senior Management
- AWS Chief Melanie Milczynski | Email: Melanie.Milczynski@ontario.ca
- Sarah Khan, Executive Advisor to the Chief | Email: Sarah.Khan@ontario.ca
- Craig McManus, Major Investigations | Email: Craig.McManus@Ontario.ca
- Dane Minns, Deputy Director Compliance & Enforcement | Email: Dane.Minns@ontario.ca
- Solicitor General Michael Kerzner | Email: Solgen.correspondence@ontario.ca
- Premier Doug Ford | Email: Premier@ontario.ca
CALL TO ACTION – Ask the Ontario Ombudsman to Investigate
https://www.ombudsman.on.ca/en/make-complaint/file-your-complaint
4 thoughts on “Ontario Animal Welfare Services Failure to Act Leaves 20 Horses to Suffer – 3 are Now Dead”
Shame on Animal Welfare Services. Do better. These horses should have been put down immediately upon appraisal. Why does this organization exist if they do nothing? I’ve read multiple posts about people mentioning Stephanie’s abuse and how she has renamed and opened different Facebook farm accounts to scam people. How does someone like me completely uninvolved in Ottawa know more about the cruelty and neglect from this girl than the actual organization that is supposed to help and save animals? What is happening in the world that this did not deserve immediate attention? 8 days of nothing? Shame on this “organization”. Shame on Stephanie Redlick and family as her father is also guilty.
Thank you for reaching out Christina.
Stephanie Redlick is well known in Ontario equine circles.
http://www.banhorseslaughter.com has an area focused on the activities of Stephanie.
This is disgusting!!!
All horses should have been removed immediately.
This has been going on for too long
Everyone has lost any confidence in the agency!!!
Abysmal. The first word that comes to mind. And tragic. A close audit is in order for the whole welfare system in all of Canada.
What this blog fails to mention is the completely ignored response by AWS when the condition of the horses were first reported to them back in the end of December. Had they done their jobs at that time all three of the horses would be alive today. The very fact that a veterinarian was not summoned until much later in their response shows ineptness of their equine knowledge of colossal proportions.
An audit needs to reflect the actual wages versus care for the acquired animals too, and why an astounding 9.1% of fines issued are paid. Stephanie Redlick has stated publicly that she is not going to pay a dime towards the $116,000 cost owed to repair the injuries and neglect she caused to the horses SHE owned. It’s all tax payer money.
In every other legal jurisdiction unpaid fines are punished. Yet Stephanie is allowed to purchase more horses. If she were a child molester AWS would allow her to open a daycare.