Hey, they’d been practicing by shooting dogs!
Ditto.
I have horses, and I love them dearly, but I can understand and accept that what the Troopers did was necessary.
They are a handful... and you can’t reason with them.
Sad story.
The trooper and deputies were impatient morons. At two in the morning they could have closed the damn highway for an hour with no serious repercussions to anyone.
Instead of wasting 20 minutes endangering everyone with their ham handed attempts, they could have closed the road and located the owner in the same amount of time.
The owner just needed a bucked of grain, halters and lead ropes and they’d be back in the corral in ten minutes.
Instead, she has very expensive dog food rotting in the median.
Going with the cops on this one. Terrible tragedy for the horses and owner.
All cops are perfect. There cannot possibly be a circumstance where a cop is the problem waiting for a solution.
[[They’d been trying to get the horses back onto their property when they say the situation just became too unsafe.]]
Became unsafe? Ya mean fer the horses? obviously so I guess-
wonder how long it would have taken them to go get the owner to help roundup her horses????
common knowledge.
A bucket ( of most any kind ) and a little feed ( corn ) of some kind and the horses will follow you through fires of hell.
just saying..
Looks like they’re not just shooting the family dog anymore....
Where I come out is that if law enforcement is incompetent in handling livestock then they have an obligation to call in someone who is before getting trigger happy.
The department should be held liable, officers repremanded, and new procedures written for dispatch so they have someone to call in at anytime.
Call me old school.
I actually have had to handle a horse situation before.....its not difficult
Horses are smart animals....and if corralled for any period of time...they will return to their home if they get loose
We had a horse wander on our school property a few times. He would hop his owners fence and walk to 7/11. Then walk back....2 mi round trip. The local sherrifs dept would get the call...and they just made sure he made it back home.
I guess the horse wanted some smokes and a Slurpee. I’m sure he got it for free...because that horse was as big as a Budwiser horse
These cops panicked...and panicked the horses. They should have closed the highway
I’d wager the cops involved never handled horses before in their lives.
It would appear they've escalated from dogs to horses.