Why, why, why, did some one do this?

The cruelty to animals in this world, for no reason. This should be classified with the new Federal animal cruelty laws, and only a $500 rewaed for information?

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/Gray News) - Fifteen horses were found shot and killed near a strip-mining site in eastern Kentucky after being hunted down, authorities said.


"This is very inhumane and it's a very cruel act of somebody who just apparently had nothing else to do or whatever just to go back on a strip job and shoot down horses who were, one of them obviously was feeding, had grass in its mouth," Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told WYMT. "It looked like a battlefield for just horses."

Some of the horses were pregnant, while others were less than a year old.

They were found along US 23, near the Pike and Floyd county line.

"Seeing them gunned down is ... it's beyond horrific," said Tonya Conn with Dumas Rescue, an organization that had been caring for the animals the last five years. "These horses were scattered in various, various places, distances from each other so they had been shot, and they'd scattered then hunted and shot down."

A $500 reward is available for information about the incident.

Copyright 2019 WYMT via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Sickening!

I take it these were wild horses?

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I take it these were wild horses?

That, I do not know, does it make a difference?

It should not be hard to find the perpetrators. Of course, folks in Eastern Kentucky have quite a tradition of keeping secrets, so that may be a problem.

From a legal standpoint, it might.

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I take it these were wild horses?

That, I do not know, does it make a difference?

What the hell is wrong with people?!?

H&K-Guy

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I take it these were wild horses?

From what I've heard, these horses were dumped at a strip mine site by people who no longer wanted them.

I might consider that worse than shooting them.

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Originally posted by DougE:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I take it these were wild horses?

From what I've heard, these horses were dumped at a strip mine site by people who no longer wanted them.

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Originally posted by BBMW:
From a legal standpoint, it might.

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I take it these were wild horses?

That, I do not know, does it make a difference?

I understand what you are saying.

But would have this incident have been this much publicized, even if a property owner had shot the horses for being a nuisance?

That the local Sheriff has commented on it , without any reason for this to be justified.

Note: I posted this before reading about the horses being dumped at the strip mine. But either way, they should not have been shot in that manner.

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
What the hell is wrong with people?!?

There’s a lot of people who shouldn’t be sucking up air...people who do this kind of thing, fall into that category

This is where I really wish I were filthy rich. I'd offer up a $50,000 cash reward for anyone who could bring the perpetrator to the local sheriff's office. Physical condition optional.

It’s Floyd County. Things are.......different there.

This case will get closed, likely by KSP Post 9.

Floyd County is a whole different world.

Here in Florida there have been at least two recent cases, that we know of, of horses being stolen from the owners farms and found slaughtered for their meat! The latest was worth $20,000. That really pisses me off!

If I had a ranch and horses and happened to catch one of those “attempts” at my place I’d go all cattle rustlin’ justice on them and shoot ‘em tween the eyes!

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Originally posted by jljones:
It’s Floyd County. Things are.......different there.

This case will get closed, likely by KSP Post 9.

Floyd County is a whole different world.

That's the truth.. I spent a majority of my summers as a kid there. My mother is from Mud Creek,that's in Floyd County. My father met her while he was stationed there as a game warden in the 70's.

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If I had a ranch and horses and happened to catch one of those “attempts” at my place I’d go all cattle rustlin’ justice on them and shoot ‘em tween the eyes!

That's the plan. I was out at 2:00 a.m. last week with a flashlight and a rifle when I heard tires crunching on the dirt road that passes our fields.

Actually, guys, the way to cure horse thieving is to hang um high.

My take on it is just some dirt bags out shooting. But its small communities that may or may not be tight knit. Everyone knows who's been going out shooting. Probably not that many places to buy ammo. From the news reports, always sketchy, is that they were killed with a small caliber rifle. I don't know what that means.

But if the sheriff and his posse have been covering the area, they've probably found the empties so they know what caliber was used. I sure hope the shooter didn't use a 22 rimfire.

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:

Note: I posted this before reading about the horses being dumped at the strip mine. But either way, they should not have been shot in that manner.

I think it makes a difference whether they were 'strays' or 'pets.' Somebody shooting a stray dog, for example, doesn't elicit the outrage I would feel if it were somebody's beloved pet.

Shooting the horses was wrong, no doubt, but there is a difference between shooting cared for horses with owners and shooting strays.

Aren't horses social animals who bond with their owners? If so (I don't pretend to know much about horses), I agree that just dumping and abandoning them was the real cruelty here. . .

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Originally posted by ArtieS:

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If I had a ranch and horses and happened to catch one of those “attempts” at my place I’d go all cattle rustlin’ justice on them and shoot ‘em tween the eyes!

That's the plan. I was out at 2:00 a.m. last week with a flashlight and a rifle when I heard tires crunching on the dirt road that passes our fields.

Good Luck! I mean that sincerely! These bast@rds need to be put down. I’m sure Grady Judd is on the case but probably needs all the help he can get.

This shit used to happen where I lived in Idaho. People that couldn't afford horses and couldn't sell them would take them to public land in the middle of the night, shoot them, and leave the corpses to rot.