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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChampion show horse slaughtered and butchered on Florida farm
Source: Associated Press
Champion show horse slaughtered and butchered on Florida farm
Associated Press in Palmetto, Florida
Monday 26 October 2015 16.16 GMT
Manatee County detectives said they were searching for the person or people who slaughtered and butchered a 12-year-old prize show jumping horse on a farm in Palmetto.
The Bradenton Herald reports that the 1,300lbs animal was led from his stall at Imperial Farms by someone between 8.30pm on Saturday and 6.45am on Sunday, and then taken to a pen in the back of the 27-acre farm, where he was killed and expertly butchered.
The horses name was Phedras de Blondel.
Investigators said they believed the perpetrator was someone who wanted horse meat, knew the farm had horses and took Phedras because he was a big, heavy horse.
Officials said that when the horse was found in the back pen, his legs were gone, with essentially just his head and neck intact.
Associated Press in Palmetto, Florida
Monday 26 October 2015 16.16 GMT
Manatee County detectives said they were searching for the person or people who slaughtered and butchered a 12-year-old prize show jumping horse on a farm in Palmetto.
The Bradenton Herald reports that the 1,300lbs animal was led from his stall at Imperial Farms by someone between 8.30pm on Saturday and 6.45am on Sunday, and then taken to a pen in the back of the 27-acre farm, where he was killed and expertly butchered.
The horses name was Phedras de Blondel.
Investigators said they believed the perpetrator was someone who wanted horse meat, knew the farm had horses and took Phedras because he was a big, heavy horse.
Officials said that when the horse was found in the back pen, his legs were gone, with essentially just his head and neck intact.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/26/florida-show-horse-slaughtered-butchered
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Champion show horse slaughtered and butchered on Florida farm (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2015
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I need to buy some glue.
denbot
(9,899 posts)2. 10,000 comedians out of work, and YOU try to be funny?
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)3. 10,000 comedians out of work, and YOU try to be serious?
denbot
(9,899 posts)5. Of course.
Comedy is a tough gig, you should know.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)8. Yup... not for the reason you'd jump to, though...
Yup... not for the reason you'd jump to, though...
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)4. Sicko...
Hope they catch him/her/them
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)6. I heard a local consigliere is being questioned . . .
Sorry, I hope they catch the sick bastard that did this.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)7. Ugh
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)9. There's a black market in horse meat in Florida.
Apparently it's popular with Cubans and some Eastern Europeans. I suppose if you live in southern Florida and own horses you might be forgiven for exercising your second amendment rights or for getting a good watchdog for your barn. A well trained horse like this would just walk off obediently with his would be killers.