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In recent years, Bruce Rotz has teamed up with Virginia horse rescue Colby’s Crew, which was established in 2021, and which has recently been helping Rotz make exorbitant amounts of money online.

This relatively new rescue organization operates multiple social media accounts that feature heartbreaking videos from inside Rotz’s barn. The videos showcase severely sick or injured horses, overcrowded pens, and horses being loaded onto trailers awaiting shipment to slaughter in Canada.

Many of the animals shown in the videos posted by Colby’s Crew are in obvious need of immediate veterinary attention. However, so far there is no indication that anything has been done by the person creating these incriminating videos to hold him accountable or to report him to the Pennsylvania authorities.

Instead of turning Rotz into authorities and advising all their online followers to abstain from supporting his heinous activities in any way, Colby’s Crew has responded by fundraising through its many social media accounts, turning their association with Rotz into a lucrative partnership that, over only a few months’ time, has incredibly generated hundreds of thousands in donations.

Although it's hard to believe, much of this money was given to convicted animal abuser and kill-buyer Rotz in order to “bail out” the condemned horses trapped in his barn.

And even more unbelievably, the tens of thousands of online supporters who have made these donations have been told on many occasions that their donations have “emptied the pen” of all horses, and that no horses were shipped to slaughter thanks to their generous support.

Unfortunately, Animals’ Angels investigators have uncovered a much darker truth. One that does not surprise anyone who knows Bruce Rotz.

On October 12, 2023, Colby’s Crew announced their biggest online fundraiser yet. They claimed that if they could quickly raise $50,000, Bruce Rotz would stop shipping horses to slaughter and keep his pen empty for the final two months of the year.

As of October 14th, according to the Colby’s Crew social media accounts, $36,000 had already been raised.

Once again, Colby’s Crew announced that kill buyer Rotz would only stop the slaughter for the next two months if supporters donated more money, stating that their donors could literally end East Coast horse slaughter.

Then, on October 15th, Colby’s Crew joyously announced that they “did it” and “history was made” as they claimed Rotz’s horse pen was now empty.

Unfortunately, the official documents we’ve uncovered tell a much different story.

Despite the information donors had been given, our investigators obtained USDA health certificates which clearly show that Rotz never stopped shipping horses in 2023.

In fact, three loads totaling 83 horses were shipped to the Viande Richelieu plant in November and two loads were shipped in December.

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