{"id":208431,"date":"2026-03-07T03:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:42:27","slug":"lodi-woman-pleads-for-safe-return-of-two-missing-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208431\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodi woman pleads for safe return of two missing horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman in Lodi is pleading for help after two of her horses disappeared nearly a week ago. After extensive searches, she&#8217;s worried someone stole them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been now six days and not a single person has even seen them, like on the side of the road, nothing,&#8221; Trina Homer said.<\/p>\n<p>Two of her beloved horses vanished without a trace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no reason for them to be wandering off that far like at all,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Homer, a Lodi local, is now pleading for their safe return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take very good care of my animals. They&#8217;re my whole world,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This has to be hands down the worst thing I&#8217;ve ever experienced owning a horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chip and Angus are the two horses that have been missing since Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They both have distinctive markings. Chip has a scar on his hip and Angus has white spots.<\/p>\n<p>They were last spotted on a family property in the Acampo area near the intersection of Lower Sacramento and Woodland Road. There&#8217;s been no sign of them since.<\/p>\n<p>Homer worries they were stolen to be sold at an auction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did contact three rescues. That&#8217;s what they do. They go save horses from those auction yards, and they&#8217;re they said they look for them,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I know that some of those auctions, you have kill buyers who go and they&#8217;ll buy the ones that are cheap and then they ship them out of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you know horses, Homer said they don&#8217;t wander far. Their search has been extensive, from the ground on horseback to drones in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t only heartbreaking for Homer, but for the countless youth who come to Lodi for her summer camp through Trina Homer&#8217;s Horsemanship. They look forward to spending time with Chip and Angus every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my thing. If you stole from some adults, whatever. You took them from all my lesson kids,&#8221; Homer said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what bothers me the most. I hate telling my kids I can&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t even like to call my kids and tell them that they are sick or hurt or they can&#8217;t be ridden. I hate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s all but begging for their safe return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just bring them back. I&#8217;ll give you your money and go about your day and then you don&#8217;t ever have to talk to me again,&#8221; Homer said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll pretend like it never happened.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous donation was made to provide a reward for the horses&#8217; return. Homer says whoever has these horses will make more money from the reward than trying to sell them elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>She has also filed an official stolen horse report with the San Joaquin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in Lodi is pleading for help after two of her horses disappeared nearly a week ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5706,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-208431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-lodi","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}