One of my more surprising investigations involved horse theft. It actually went out of state and got the Feds involved. Stolen semis and horse trailers were used and recovered. Some folks ended up doing Federal time out of the case. The amount of monetary loss was amazing!
It started with the theft of a single Quarter Horse.

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From a legal standpoint, it might.

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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.

I found a story that explains it a bit more. Sounds like some were abandoned, but others were owned by people and turned out to graze there.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/a...l.com/amp/2684594001

6 more found yesterday.
https://www.wkyt.com/content/n...ounty-566422931.html

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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.

A tiny bit better then letting them starve to death, but still shitty.

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6 more found yesterday.
https://www.wkyt.com/content/n...ounty-566422931.html

Regardless of what anyone says, strays, dumped, owned, killing all those horses was WRONG.

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Regardless of what anyone says, strays, dumped, owned, killing all those horses was WRONG.

Of course it was. Nobody here is defending the killing.

Just makes me sick.

I just can't fathom why (or how) someone could kill an animal that isn't trying to hurt a person, isn't something to be eaten and hasn't done anything at all to require it be killed.

Also really makes me mad.

Bob

Feral animals, in general, can be pretty damaging.

My guess would be they were causing some kind of problems/posing a risk to someone’s domestic horses/were suffering, and the $500 is a fig leaf, because they know who shot them, and agree with the why.

You want to see sickening/a reason to put down horses, look at the BLM stockyards full of abandoned horses. They are too damaging to leave running feral, and it’s a horrible way to keep a horse.

Personally, I don’t think there is such a thing as a “right” wild horse, anymore than there is a “right” feral dog.

They need people just about as much as dogs.