A state board has temporarily suspended the license of a Carbon County veterinarian facing animal cruelty charges.

The Pennsylvania State Board of Veterinary Medicine’s probable cause screening committee issued the order to Clyde Rendell Shoop of Jim Thorpe.The order, pending a hearing, was issued on Feb. 12 on the grounds that he presents a clear and immediate danger to public health and safety.Shoop, 67, along with his ex-wife Kimberly A. Shoop, 52, were charged last month with 11 counts of cruelty to animals, after police removed a dozen neglected horses from a Lower Towamensing Township farm.Known as Dr. “Renny” Shoop, the longtime veterinarian operates Poco West Equine Animal Services in Jim Thorpe.Police have removed 16 horses from the property since Jan. 20, when they received a tip about a farm on Sunny Rest Road with emaciated and dead horses.The person who called police said a dead horse was seen in the pasture, as well as several emaciated horses roaming the property.Three of those have had to be euthanized, and the others have a wide range of medical problems, according to officials with the animal rescue where the horses were taken.The Shoops have both told police that they do not own many of the animals.On Jan. 22, police searched the property, and found nine of the 16 horses in critical condition.Five of the most critically injured horses — one adult male, one adult female, one juvenile female and two juvenile males — were taken from the property, according to court documents.Those five were taken to a veterinarian in the Quakertown area. Only three of the five would survive, with two having to be euthanized, according to Last Chance Ranch in Quakertown, who assisted in the rescue.They also found at least five dead horses — two hidden beneath wooden pallets, one beneath a burned mattress, and two in a pit with the remains of other burned animals.Police said the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is still investigating whether the Shoops will be charged with improperly disposing of those remains.On Jan. 26, officials from the Last Chance Ranch returned to the property and took seven more horses. One of those had to be euthanized.Four remaining horses were removed Feb. 1.Police also removed a pig, a calf and a turkey from the property during the first search; 20 sheep and goats, as well as three dogs during the second. Police said a raccoon, an alligator, a boa constrictor and several birds were also on the property.In addition to Last Chance, animal rescue organizations including Days’ End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, Maryland; Carbon County Friends of Animals; and Carbon County Animal Shelter assisted in the rescue; along with CART teams from Lehigh, Carbon and Schuylkill counties; and the Carbon County humane officer.The Shoops are each accused of 11 summary offenses, the stiffest charges a first-time offender accused of cruelty to animals can face. Repeat offenders can be charged with misdemeanors.Renny Shoop was previously charged with animal cruelty in 2009, after an animal control officer accused him of keeping four horses in poor conditions at a location in Jim Thorpe. Those charges were dropped.He was also reprimanded by the state Board of Veterinary Medicine in 2002 for practicing for six months with a lapsed license.