On Sunday, February 12th, evacuation orders were issued for Yuba county and surrounding areas. A responsible ranch owner would have developed a plan at this time for the orderly evacuation of the horses boarded on their ranch. That did not happen here, here's what happened. On Sunday, February 12th, we received a phone call from ranch proprietor, Beverly Miller. Beverly stated that we had two days to remove our horse from her property before she left and had animal control seize all animals remaining on the property. We were on the other side of the river, unable to get anywhere near Riverbend, so we started working on finding a friend to help us move our horse. THEN, on Monday, February 13th, we notified Beverly that we were sending a friend to pick our horse up. When our friend arrived, Beverly denied access to our friend and did not allow her to take our horse. Later that evening, we received a call from a fellow boarder who went to pick up her horse. This is where it gets really bad. When this fellow boarder arrived at Riverbend to pick up her horse, she found the front gate (facing the highway) OPEN. Once inside, she found that all horses were LOOSE inside of the property AND the back gate facing the railroad tracks was OPEN as well. When she questioned Beverly on the morning of Tuesday, February 14th on this, Beverly said she was told to let all the horses go for their own good, However Beverly was not able to identify who told her to do that. There was no immediate threat of flooding at this time. Beverly didn't even realize she had removed her horse. Makes sense since Beverly doesn't have any active interest in the ranch at all during our 6 month stay at Riverbend. The ranch was previously managed by Beverly's late husband who actually managed the ranch very well prior to his passing. We already had plans in place to move our horse on march 1st, but we were able to move her to her new home, Reddog ranch, early because of this. This is a good thing because she will receive great care there. We made the initial choice to leave Riverbend for the fallowing reasons: boarders are responsible to clean their own stalls, you won't find another facility anywhere near here that does that to their customers. The reason behind that is their long term, live in "ranch hand" is afraid of horses and will only feed them. If you can call the sliver of hay he throws out feeding them. He will also swear at you and treat you like dirt, great customer service huh? The place is falling apart, a big muddy mess where horses are standing knee deep in mudd. So sad. Stay away. read more