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Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: Roxy on July 07, 2011, 03:47:18 pm

Title: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: Roxy on July 07, 2011, 03:47:18 pm

plus a dairy cow, about ten miles from us. This happened on Saturday night. Not sure how, or why - certainly not an accident. Local police have arrested a 52 year old man for it.

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: sabrina on July 07, 2011, 03:50:47 pm

Terrible  :o

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: Sandy on July 07, 2011, 04:14:18 pm

Horrid, he must have gone wild for some reason....strange thing to do ???

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: Roxy on July 07, 2011, 04:20:06 pm

Maybe he had an argument with someone, and took his revenge out on their animals?  He was arrested pretty quickly, so someone must have known who was responsible.  Its a tourist area, not many houses there.  Nothing horrible like this happens round here often, thank goodness.

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: little blue on July 07, 2011, 04:37:55 pm

how awful :(

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: jaykay on July 07, 2011, 07:27:45 pm

Oh good grief  :'(

Title: Re: Two ponies shot dead
Post by: Beewyched on July 07, 2011, 09:52:44 pm

Sounds like a bit of a dispute that got out-of-hand  :o  Pity the animals had to be the ones "in the firing line" (pun not intended), but I suppose folks will say it's better than blasting humans  ???