Owner offers £500 after attempt to lynch her horse
Owner offers £500 after attempt to lynch her horse
A distraught animal lover has offered a £500 reward in a bid to catch the culprits who carried out a bizarre attack on her horse.
Fiona Louise, 29, found a rope in the horse's stable which she said had been used as a makeshift gallows for an attempted lynching.
She found the horse, called Elizabeth, on Monday morning with a severely swollen neck, a gashed leg and cuts and bruises to its face.
Ms Louise, from Dunfermline, Fife, said the attackers appeared organised as they dragged two heavy concrete blocks normally used to balance the water trough over to the shelter and placed one on top of the other.Elizabeth, a 20-year-old cross-bred Irish draught, is one of three animals the family keeps in a field near Aberdour in Fife.Ms Louise said: "I can't believe someone tried to hang her. It could have been anyone and I'm terrified to leave the horses on their own."I stayed with them all last night and I'm prepared to put up £500 for any information towards catching those responsible."She added: "They must have stood on the blocks and used it as a pulley system with the rope round the horse's neck and looped over the beam on the shelter."That must be how she got a really swollen neck."She must have panicked and slashed her leg on the boulder and bashed her face on the beam and roof of the building."Anne Logan, a vet from Inglis Veterinary Centre, in Dunfermline, who tended the injured horse, said its injuries could have been caused by children "acting as cowboys and trying to lasso" it.
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A distraught animal lover has offered a £500 reward in a bid to catch the culprits who carried out a bizarre attack on her horse.
Fiona Louise, 29, found a rope in the horse's stable which she said had been used as a makeshift gallows for an attempted lynching.
She found the horse, called Elizabeth, on Monday morning with a severely swollen neck, a gashed leg and cuts and bruises to its face.
Ms Louise, from Dunfermline, Fife, said the attackers appeared organised as they dragged two heavy concrete blocks normally used to balance the water trough over to the shelter and placed one on top of the other.Elizabeth, a 20-year-old cross-bred Irish draught, is one of three animals the family keeps in a field near Aberdour in Fife.Ms Louise said: "I can't believe someone tried to hang her. It could have been anyone and I'm terrified to leave the horses on their own."I stayed with them all last night and I'm prepared to put up £500 for any information towards catching those responsible."She added: "They must have stood on the blocks and used it as a pulley system with the rope round the horse's neck and looped over the beam on the shelter."That must be how she got a really swollen neck."She must have panicked and slashed her leg on the boulder and bashed her face on the beam and roof of the building."Anne Logan, a vet from Inglis Veterinary Centre, in Dunfermline, who tended the injured horse, said its injuries could have been caused by children "acting as cowboys and trying to lasso" it.
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Find out more about dressage clinics at Windsong Dressage and Equestrian Center. If you have questions you can email Ulla Hudson, our German Certified Instructor.#733, Route 344, Cedar Grove, Edgewood, NM, 87015, USA
505-615-5050
